Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth McGovern

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.

Frank Bruno

There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.

Samantha Fox

The simple things in life make me very happy.

Rodney King

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

Pierce Brosnan

I've been a married man most of my life; that's the way I like it.

Pierce Brosnan

No one can escape life's pain. That's life.

Diana Nyad

You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.

Paul Theroux

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

Terence Winter

I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much.

Tyrone Hayes

Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

Vince Staples

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

Ansel Elgort

I think if you only work, then you won't have a life. It's tough to have a life when you're working a lot.

David Allen

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

David Guterson

To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.

David Sarnoff

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Stuart Calverley

Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals.

Charles Simmons

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

Alan Watts

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Alan Watts

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Alan Watts

When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

Alan Watts

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Alan Ball

That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid. Ever. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it... and my heart is going to cave in.

Chris Cagle

Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.

Chogyam Trungpa

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

Chogyam Trungpa

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

Chin-Ning Chu

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Chief Seattle

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.