Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Leonardo da Vinci

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Henry David Thoreau

Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?

Michel de Montaigne

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

Joseph Joubert

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

Plautus

We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

Marcus Aurelius

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Zoe Sugg

When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

Whitey Ford

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Van Morrison

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yayoi Kusama

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

C. S. Lewis

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

Carl Sagan

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

Bill Bryson

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?