This Life Quotes
I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility.
Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.
The good, the bad, that's just life. Let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: who are you going to share it with tomorrow?
Build patterns on time with God into your life when your worship leading...Never let your time leading on a public stage eclipse what’s going on with you and God behind closed doors.
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.
I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.
Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.
The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.
The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.
What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.
I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.
The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.
I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.
Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.