Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Nixon

Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body - as that can make all the difference in the world.

Cynthia Nixon

My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

Countee Cullen

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

Cory Monteith

I'm pretty goofy and I make a lot of dumb jokes - life is too short to be serious, so I guess that's how I flirt. To be honest, I think I'm too shy and reserved to be a proper old fashioned flirt.

Cory Monteith

Life is too short to be serious

Cory Booker

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

Clive Barker

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

Clive Barker

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

Clive Barker

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

e. e. cummings

Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious.

e. e. cummings

The whole truth... sings only -and all lovers are the song

e. e. cummings

O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring)

e. e. cummings

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

e. e. cummings

There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this sort - things which are always inside of us and in fact are us and which consequently will not be pushed off or away where we can begin thinking about them - are no longer things; they, and the us which they are, equals A Verb; an IS.

e. e. cummings

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

e. e. cummings

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

e. e. cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

e. e. cummings

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. B. White

Loneliness is a strange gift.

E. B. White

Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

E. B. White

An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

E. B. White

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

E. B. White

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Duncan Sheik

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

Dustin Johnson

I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.

Dustin Hoffman

Life is an occasion...rise to it.

Dustin Hoffman

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

Douglas Coupland

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

Douglas Coupland

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Douglas Coupland

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Douglas Coupland

The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.

Douglas Coupland

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.