Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andy Warhol

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

Andrew Schneider

Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

Andrew Schneider

Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.

Andre Breton

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Andre Gide

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

Andre Gide

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Andre Gide

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Andre Gide

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Andre Gide

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Andre Gide

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Andre Gide

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Ann Rinaldi

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Ann Richards

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

Ann Patchett

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Aneurin Bevan

Virtue is its own punishment.