Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Roberts

I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.

Ellen Burstyn

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

John Irving

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

Joe Paterno

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

Gloria Steinem

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

Big Smo

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

Bianca Lawson

In my regular life, I don't really wear much makeup unless I'm going out.

Brian O'Driscoll

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

Cormac McCarthy

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

Colin Chapman

Simplify, then add lightness.

Colin Farrell

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Cliff Burton

Control your life through insanity.

Daphne du Maurier

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

Dante Alighieri

Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.

Dante Alighieri

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

Dante Alighieri

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

Dante Alighieri

The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness.

Dante Alighieri

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

Dante Alighieri

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

Dan Simmons

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

Dan Simmons

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

Dan Simmons

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

Dan Simmons

Life doesn't retreat.

Dan Rather

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

Dar Williams

If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.

Dar Williams

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

Dan Millman

There are no ordinary moments.

Corrie Ten Boom

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Cormac McCarthy

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Cormac McCarthy

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.

Clifford Odets

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

Coventry Patmore

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.

Gary Numan

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.