Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Hamilton

I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

Lewis H. Lapham

The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.

Lewis Black

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Lewis Carroll

It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.

Lewis Carroll

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

Lewis Carroll

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Lewis Carroll

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Leonard Bernstein

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Joyce Meyer

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude.

Josephine Hart

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

Josephine Hart

We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world, is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday.

Joseph Wood Krutch

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

Joseph Wood Krutch

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Joseph Heller

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

Joseph Campbell

When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.

Joseph Campbell

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

Joseph Campbell

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

Joseph Campbell

Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death.

Joseph Campbell

If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

Joseph Campbell

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.

Joseph Campbell

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Karl Wallenda

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Karl Pilkington

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change my life.

Karen Horney

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

Karen Horney

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Juliette Lewis

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Julio Cortazar

She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

Julio Cortazar

What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.

Juliet Marillier

Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?

Juliette Binoche

Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?