Life & Living: Life Quotes

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"I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life"

Jodie Foster, Actress

Jodie Foster

"I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I, building a house for me. I would truly love to do that"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

Anne McCaffrey

"I take a simple view of life. It is: keep your eyes open and get on with it!"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous"

Janis Joplin, Musician

Janis Joplin

"The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones"

Brian Herbert, Author

Brian Herbert

"I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"Was I always going to be here? No, I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

Morgan Freeman

"One's life has many compartments"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

Harold Pinter

"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"All my life I've been looking for diversity"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"Every moment of one's existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit!"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

Laurie Anderson

"I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

Don Van Vliet

"Collecting is my passion"

Ursula Andress, Actress

Ursula Andress

"Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff"

Fuzzy Zoeller, Athlete

"Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that"

Sean Connery, Actor

Sean Connery

"But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

Thomas Haden Church

"Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life"

Ursula Andress, Actress

Ursula Andress

"Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show"

David Gerrold, Writer

"I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

Maureen Forrester

"I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you"

Judith Light, Actress

"In real life, events seem much less dramatic"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere"

William Dean Howells, Author

William Dean Howells

"I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting"

John Robert Seeley, Writer

"A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death"

Lena Horne, Actress

"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides"

Gene Tierney, Actress

Gene Tierney

"For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day"

James Thomson, Musician

"Life is so unlike theory"

Anthony Trollope, Author

Anthony Trollope

"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life"

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher

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