Martin Scorsese Quotes

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

Martin Scorsese

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• Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hair

• I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Life
  • Control
  • Marriage

• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Man
  • Wise

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Single

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
  • Long
  • Self

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Blessing

• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Happy

• I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Soul
  • Pretty
  • Friend

• Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Science

• O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Forever

• Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.

  

  Percy Sledge
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Life
  • Believe
  • American

• All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Life