Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward R. Murrow

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

Edward R. Murrow

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.

Conan O'Brien

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

E. V. Lucas

The art of life is to show your hand.

E. V. Lucas

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

E. W. Howe

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

E. W. Howe

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

E. W. Howe

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

E. W. Howe

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Dwyane Wade

My life changed in a huge way. Mentally, I've been preparing for it for over a year now. To me, it's bigger than that. For me, it shows a lot of people that you need to fight to be in your kids' lives sometimes. You fight until you can't fight any more. That's all I was trying to be, a father in his kids' lives.

Coventry Patmore

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.

Gary Numan

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

Gary Ross

We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.

Friedrich Schiller

If you want to know yourself, Just look how others do it; If you want to understand others, Look into your own heart. What is life without the radiance of love?

Joan Rivers

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

Henry David Thoreau

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Brian Posehn

I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.

Bobby Brown

I'm staying focused and clear about what I want in life, and I'm going to get it, man.

Bobby Womack

When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

Albert King

I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.

Alessia Cara

I feel like my whole life, I've had to prove myself to so many people because I'm young and because I'm a female; it's just constant. I'm always surprising people.

Allison Tolman

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life.

ASAP Ferg

I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

Seamus Heaney

Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.

Serena Williams

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

Steve Jones

The Sex Pistols was a part of my life. Just a small part.

Stephen Gaghan

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

Sara Shepard

I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life.

It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting in itself, but even more so when it is your own life being put into the narrative forge.