Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Cameron

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Mark Cuban

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

Bill Murray

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

Bess Myerson

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Beryl Bainbridge

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Bertolt Brecht

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

Bertolt Brecht

Life is short and so is money.

Bertolt Brecht

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Benjamin Jowett

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Benjamin Jowett

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Benjamin Jowett

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin E. Mays

I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

Bertrand Russell

I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.

Bertrand Russell

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Bertrand Russell

Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.

Bertrand Russell

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bernard Baruch

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

Carolyn Wells

Actions lie louder than words.

Carre Otis

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Aaron Schock

I know that God has a plan for my life.

Aaron Yoo

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

Aaron Swartz

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?