Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. S. Eliot

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T. S. Eliot

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

T. S. Eliot

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

T. S. Eliot

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

T. S. Eliot

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

T. S. Eliot

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

T. S. Eliot

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

T. S. Eliot

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

T. S. Eliot

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

Sydney J. Harris

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Sylvester Stallone

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

Suzanne Shaw

The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson.

Suze Orman

You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it.

Suze Orman

People first, then money, then things.

Susan Sontag

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

Susan Sontag

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

Susan Sontag

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Susan Sontag

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

Susan Sontag

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Scott Westerfeld

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

Scott Westerfeld

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

Scott Adams

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

Scott Adams

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

Scott Adams

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

Julian Barnes

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

Joss Stone

Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.

Josiah Royce

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

Jostein Gaarder

We are the living planet!

Jostein Gaarder

Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.