Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Robert A. Heinlein

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Riley Keough

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with.

Ringo Starr

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

Rihanna

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Tim O'Brien

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

Tim O'Brien

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

Tim O'Brien

A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.

Tim McGraw

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

Tim Allen

I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.

Thomas Szasz

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

Thomas Traherne

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

Thomas Szasz

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Stevie Nicks

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.

Steven Wright

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, 'So, what did you think?

Steven Wright

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Richard Carlson

Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.

Regina King

I want to live a full life - period.

Regina Brett

When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

Regina Brett

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Regina Brett

If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

Regina Brett

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

Tom Hodgkinson

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms..

Toni Morrison

She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.

Toni Morrison

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

Toni Morrison

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

Toni Morrison

Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

Tom Stoppard

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

Tom Stoppard

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Tom Stoppard

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Tom Stoppard

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.