Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Burnett

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

I think we're here for each other.

Carol Burnett

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carl Schurz

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

Alan Lightman

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

Alan Lightman

A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

Alan Lightman

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

Alain de Botton

It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.

Al Capp

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

Tyra Banks

Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power.

Mrs. Neel is in the unfortunate position of being the mother of the victim and the mother of the defendant, ... It was a factor. It was her wish that he not serve a life sentence.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'

Sarah McLachlan

Mother can't you see I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me might not be right for you but it's right for me...

James Salter

Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.

Miley Cyrus

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

My life was played out on any network with a 'C' in it.

Pankaj Mishra

My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.

James Patterson

My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.

John Daly

My life is unbecoming of a professional, basically.

George Lucas

My life is too short to become a film studio.

Manju Warrier

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

Mary Gordon

My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.

Tom Stoppard

My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.

Ahmed Best

My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

Douglas Coupland

My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

Suki Waterhouse

My life is just my life. When you're living it, it's just normal.

Barry Bonds

My life is in shambles. It is crazy.

Mary Lambert

My life is going at the speed of light, so it's a lot of just trying... to be present in each moment... Giving each situation and each part of life that space and making sure that it's sacred in every aspect.

My life is about as perfect as life can be. It's like going on vacation every time you come home.

Dan Jenkins

My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

Stanislav Grof

My first LSD session in 1956. Since then my life has never been the same.