Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Eric Shanteau

There's a lot more to life than just the Olympic Games.

Fernando Torres

I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.

Robert Herjavec

I just don't sleep enough. But I have never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says 'I wish I slept more.'

Caroline Goodall

I have a real problem with watching movies where I see this perfect woman who is married to the man in question, who has a perfect life, who has perfect hair, perfect clothes, and doesn't give you any of the kind of reality that you're used to.

Ed Harris

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

Nigel Barker

The life you're leading is the sexiest part of you.

Nimrat Kaur

I like to be prepared enough to be completely unprepared. I don't know if I make sense, but I have a fantasy of living someone else's life. And to do that perfectly, I need to prepare myself just as properly.

Laura Anne Gilman

In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

Lea Seydoux

Even in between takes, you emerge yourself. So you don't have a life for six months.

Melinda Gates

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

Le Corbusier

A house is a machine for living in.

Ira Sachs

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

Ira Sachs

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

Ira Glass

I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

Ira Glass

Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I wouldn't know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.

Nicolle Wallace

A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.

Natalie Cole

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

Natalie Martinez

The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

Natalie Jeremijenko

Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

Writing is the most important thing in my life - above marriage.

Leila Aboulela

I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.

Nick Tosches

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

Nicholas Winton

Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all.

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.