Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil MacGregor

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

Liam James

I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

Lisa Unger

I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.

Walter Lippmann

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."

How should they answer?

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Banksy

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

James Keller

A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."

James Keller

A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."

Luke Bryan

It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you get to say for the rest of your life that you've got a platinum album, that really means something.

Laura Schlessinger

We all have to make choices in life.

Vicki Lawrence

Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.

Vera Farmiga

I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

Yvonne Strahovski

Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.

Yves Behar

Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

William Christopher Handy

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

Blake Mycoskie

Life is more fun when you stop caring what other people think.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

Brian K. Vaughan

I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.

Brian Cox

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

Nikki Sixx

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

Nikki Sixx

We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

Nicolas Chamfort

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

Nicolas Roeg

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Lord is forgiving, but sometimes life is not forgiving.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Frank Gehry

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.

John Boyne

I suppose books are my real passion in life.