Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Yaeger

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Drew Barrymore

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

Bill Maher

Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

Anton Chekhov

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Bonnie Raitt

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Art Buchwald

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Michel Onfray

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Adelbert von Chamisso

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Debra Winger

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

Eleanor Porter

I love different folks.

Dirk Benedict

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

Aaron Eckhart

There are different reasons to make movies.

Alexander Wang

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Aberjhani

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Charles de Lint

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Charles Spurgeon

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Charles R. Swindoll

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

Dennis Prager

Life is too short not to enjoy as much of it as you can

Dean Koontz

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is meant to be lived.

Eileen Caddy

Our life is our own creation.

Edward Abbey

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

Deepak Chopra

There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.