Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Barker

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

Amber Benson

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

Alija Izetbegovic

People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.

Viggo Mortensen

If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

V. S. Naipaul

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

Stephen King

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

Tony Gonzalez

Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.

Nina Simone

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

Meg Cabot

Remember... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Pat Riley

I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court.

Brandon Steiner

If you want more money, don't pay attention to the money. Pay attention to the thing that makes the money.

Brandon Sanderson

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

Aravind Adiga

Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free

Augustus

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Art Buchwald

I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Ayn Rand

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Brad Meltzer

We're all being tested...That's what life is.

Brad Meltzer

Life is filled with trapdoors.

Matthew Arnold

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Diana Wynne Jones

Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.

Bram Stoker

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Boris Pasternak

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Charles Spurgeon

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.