Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Thomson

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

Blake Shelton

I'm very content with my life. I mean, who wouldn't be?

Blake Shelton

For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.

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 May

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

Brian O'Driscoll

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

Blake Mycoskie

Music is such an important part of my life.

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.

Claude Monet

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

Claude Monet

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Daphne du Maurier

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

Daphne du Maurier

Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

Daphne du Maurier

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

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.

Dante Alighieri

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

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 is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.