Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Larson

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.

Donna Karan

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Don DeLillo

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

Don DeLillo

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

Don DeLillo

Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

Don DeLillo

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.

Don Herold

Interruptions are the spice of life.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

Dylan Thomas

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.

Dylan Thomas

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

Dylan Thomas

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

Dylan Thomas

... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.

Dylan Thomas

Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good....

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Doug Stanhope

I am a player in life, not an observer. I look at herpes the way you look at a scraped knee.

Douglas Adams

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

Douglas Adams

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

Douglas Adams

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

Douglas Adams

The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.

Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Douglas Adams

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Douglas Adams

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Douglas Adams

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Douglas Adams

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Dorothea Benton Frank

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

Dorothea Lange

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Dorothy Allison

Life ain't the movies.

Doris Lessing

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.