Famous Quotes & Sayings

Val Kilmer

Once is more than generous for any lifetime.

Vaclav Havel

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

Uta Hagen

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

V. S. Naipaul

Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

V. S. Naipaul

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

Tryon Edwards

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Tucker Max

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

Susannah York

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

Susanna Kearsley

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Susanna Clarke

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

Suzanne Collins

Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

Suzanne Collins

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

Sophie Kinsella

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.

Sophie Kinsella

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

Sophocles

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Sophocles

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

Sophocles

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Sophocles

Nobody loves life like an old man.

Sophocles

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

Sophocles

The happiest life is to be without thought

Sophocles

All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

Sophocles

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

Stephen Levine

Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"

Stephen Levine

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

Stephen Leacock

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Leacock

How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.

Stephen King

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

Stephen King

It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

Stephen King

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Stephen King

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

Stephen King

Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.