Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierce Brosnan

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

Rachel Weisz

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

Preity Zinta

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

Coolio

I want to provide a well-rounded perspective of life.

Dominic Cooper

I have a very easy life, I can wander around.

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.

Diana Nyad

There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.

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.

TobyMac

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.

Sylvester Stallone

I'll always have this blue-collar connection. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life.

Susan Isaacs

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

Sterling Hayden

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

Steve Largent

Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.

Trent Reznor

My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.

Tom Brokaw

In the seasons of life, I have had more than my share of summers.

Thalia

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

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.

Trombone Shorty

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.

Tyler Oakley

Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

Todd Haynes

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

Aberjhani

A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

Sarah Hall

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

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.

Anna Deavere Smith

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

Ansel Elgort

To be honest, I don't mind talking about my experiences in life, but details aren't for everyone.

Ansel Elgort

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.

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.