Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brendan Behan

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brenda Ueland

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining,

Brenda Ueland

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

Brad Paisley

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

Brad Meltzer

We're all being tested...That's what life is.

Brad Meltzer

Life is filled with trapdoors.

Brad Pitt

The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Boyd Holbrook

To go to work every day for two years, that was life changing.

Jane Jacobs

Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.

Jane Hirshfield

Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

Jane Goodall

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Fonda

The skin is our body's envelope, the wrapping that delivers us to the world. If we understand how the skin functions in mid-life and adjust goals and life-styles appropriately, we'll be surprised how much better we can look.

Jamie Foxx

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would all love each other.

James Whitcomb Riley

As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone, And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known, So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.

Juvenal

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us. [Lat., Festinat enim decurrere velox Flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae Portico; dum bibimus dum sera unguenta puellas Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus.]

Laurie Halse Anderson

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

Kendall Jenner

I try not to be too invasive into my personal life. When I was younger, I used to tweet a lot, everything I was doing and feeling. I can't do that anymore, because it's just giving people too much room to judge.

Ken Livingstone

There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.

Kenneth Branagh

I've lived a lot of my life in London, so I often feel that I am a Londoner.

I am trying to move forward with my life.

If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live.

Kirk Kerkorian

I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.

Kirk Kerkorian

Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

Kim Fields

Being a mom is really the greatest role in my life.

Kenny Dalglish

I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.

Jose Carreras

I'm a very fortunate man. I have in life everything I could dream of.

Kate Reardon

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

Kate Bush

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

Kate Winslet

It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.

Kate Winslet

My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

Garry Shandling

I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.