Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Charles Bukowski

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Sydney Smith

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

Sydney Smith

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

Sydney Smith

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Sydney Smith

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

The most successful entrepreneurs in the world have a combination of the right type of personality and fortunate life circumstance. A lot of them have been doing it most of their life.

Azzedine Alaia

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.

Alicia Vikander

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.

Glenda Jackson

When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

James Carville

Bob's probably got a lot going on in his life.

Peter Ustinov

Books, I don't know what you see in them . . . I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

Jasmine Guinness

Books have always been an important part of my life.

Boy, life takes a long time to live

Everything was a prayer to St. Francis, his whole life was a prayer. This is what we strive for, too.

Everything in life has an end. Only sausages have two.

Jenna Morasca

Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.

Cass Sunstein

Even though he's been in public life a long time, he's got a pretty sparse record. So I wouldn't be sure in any area. I've got hunches, that's all.

Lupita Nyong'o

Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.

Kaley Cuoco

'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.

John Singleton

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.

Artie Lange

You know you're on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don't have anything to give once you give it to the people.

Artie Lange

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

Ashley Wagner

Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.