Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Largent

Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.

Trent Reznor

My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.

Tom Brokaw

In the seasons of life, I have had more than my share of summers.

Thalia

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Tyrone Hayes

Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.

Trombone Shorty

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.

Tyler Oakley

Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

Todd Haynes

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

Aberjhani

A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

Sarah Hall

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

Vince Staples

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

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.

Wasn't that the weirdest thing you've ever seen in your life?

To me, they were the hardest-working people I've ever seen in my life. They worked from sunup to sundown and yet had very little to show for it.

Mark Twain

We recognize that there are no trivial occurences in life

Cynthia Ozick

Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

Cyril Connolly

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Cyril Connolly

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Colonel Sanders

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.