Famous Quotes & Sayings

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. . . ."

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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.

Brendan Coyle

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

Birdman

I was 12 years fittin' to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. I've been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so that's just the life. We've been playing with money since young.

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.

Just because you're scarred for life doesn't mean you should be scared to live.

Wilbur Smith

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

Ann Voskamp

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

Deborah Moggach

I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.

Dax Shepard

Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.

Andrea Barrett

I've never been to a black-tie thing in my life. I didn't even go to my prom.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

Al Jarreau

It's a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it on stage.

We're like heterosexual life partners. I don't think Evan likes it when I use that term.

Kim Basinger

I've just always believed you can get anything you want in this life - anything you want.

Kevin McCloud

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.