This Life Quotes

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.

Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.

Years teach us more than books.

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

People and stars are made of the same stuff.

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Free yourself. Live your life. Stop apologizing for who you are.

Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Reverence permits non-judgemental justice. Reverence is a perception of the soul.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.