Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Faraday

Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.

Michael Faraday

You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid! ... Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration ... is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.

Michael Bloomberg

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure,

Melinda Gates

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

Melissa Marr

Chase away sorrow by living

Michelle Bachelet

Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces.

Michelangelo

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

Michelangelo

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michael Ondaatje

From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

Michael Ondaatje

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

Michael Mayer

Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.

If there is any lingering doubt, life without parole is the punishment.

Dara Horn

I think all parents have a double life.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.

Rachel Miner

I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.

I just thank everyone who ever touched my life in the game.

Billy Wagner

I just tell them one thing -- just remember: It's their life at stake.

Steve Finley

I just love putting on the uniform; it's what I have done since I was 6 or 7 years old. It's the life I know. If I didn't love the life of baseball, I wouldn't work out like I do every winter.

Jennifer Haigh

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I have waited twenty-two years for this . . . I've waited all my life for this opportunity.

Drew Goddard

I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.

Josh Ryan Evans

I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal.

I realised how much misdirection is in stunt co-coordinating. It's similar to magic, the tricks we use to make people think the stunt is real. I also have a lifelong fascination with gambling cheats. I'm not one, but I do have a fascination with it.

William T. Vollmann

I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.

John Carney

I plan on spending my life here. It's everything to me.

Jaden Smith

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh.

Carmine Giovinazzo

I'm pretty open to all walks of life.

Rabindranath Tagore

I miss the meaning of my own part in the play of life because I know not the parts that others play

If one life is saved because one was lost, then its bittersweet.

Joseph Smith

If my life is of no value to my friends, then it is of no value to me.

Jason Alexander

I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.