Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angela Carter

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

Angela Carter

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Angela Carter

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Angela Carter

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Amy Vanderbilt

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

Amy Tan

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

Amy Tan

God, life changes faster than you think.

Anthony Burgess

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Anthony Burgess

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Anthony Burgess

I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.

Anthony Burgess

Life is, of course, terrible.

Anthony Burgess

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Anthony Burgess

Every dogma has its day.

Anthony Burgess

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Andy Rooney

I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

Andy Rooney

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Andy Stanley

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

Andy Stanley

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

Andy Warhol

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Kathleen Hanna

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

I would say so. It's part of my life.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Just try everything and find something you like. Success comes from enjoyment. No one's going to do something lifelong that they hate. It has to be something you personally enjoy. As long as you like it, you are going to stick with it.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Stanley Hauerwas

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Mark Fuhrman

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

I actually like being employed, even though my circumstances in life may be different now.

He just went to a place where he thought he would be able to be peaceful. It never occurred to me that he was on the verge of taking his own life or doing anything destructive of his life.

He lived life to the fullest. It was just a little too short.

Graham Elliot

Weight is something I've battled all my life.