Famous Quotes & Sayings

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Si Robertson

The Bible says that you marry for life, okay. It's a lifetime decision.

Ranbir Kapoor

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

Randy Pausch

There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.

Abbie Hoffman

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

A. E. Housman

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

A. C. Benson

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

A. A. Milne

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

A. E. Housman

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

A. E. Housman

Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

James L. Brooks

I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.

James Hetfield

If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

Aeschylus

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Adrienne Rich

We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

Adrienne Rich

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

Adrienne Rich

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

Agatha Christie

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Agatha Christie

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Adrien Brody

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Terence Winter

I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much.

TobyMac

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.

Sylvester Stallone

I'll always have this blue-collar connection. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life.

Susan Isaacs

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

Sterling Hayden

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

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.