Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Bourke-White

Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.

Mark Twain

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

Mark Twain

Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

Mark Twain

You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

Mark Twain

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Alexa Vega

Seriously, teen movies are great. It's work. And it's fun. But I want a real movie. About a real life situation.

As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

That's a recipe for a Venice, ... on life support.

Drake Bell

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

A part of my life is over and completed. A part of which I am proud.

Elia Kazan

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Ashleigh Brilliant

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

Ashleigh Brilliant

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

Ben Stein

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Barbara de Angelis

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

Ashley Montagu

It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

Paul Tsongas

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

Paul Young

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.

Paul Watzlawick

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Mel Gibson

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

Meher Baba

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

Mel Brooks

That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Mary Oliver

Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

Mary Oliver

I know many lives worth living.

Mary Oliver

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Mary Oliver

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Mary Oliver

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing