Lionel Barrymore Quotes

For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

Lionel Barrymore

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• I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Yourself

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• 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

• To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Good
  • Parents

• I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Life
  • Work
  • Age

• What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Me

• My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Best

• We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• I seem to be able to only see the positive things in life and the beautiful things in life and when I see, for instance, garbage or ugliness, then I turn my back or I seem to be able to skip it.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Positive

• When I was fifteen, I became a professional musician. I got involved with people and did certain things which led me to start making records and touring. And leaving Belfast and going to London and America, one thing led to another and I got caught up in the life that I'm living now...I was very young and i followed something. (1993)

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Life
  • Art

• When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Joy

• The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Long
  • Forever

• Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • Wine

• I always had a kind of Myth of Cincinnatus idea about politics - that public service was something you do for a while in between stints at real life. And when your time is up, you return to the plow, which is hopefully still somewhere close to where you left it.

  

  Angus King
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Coloradans of all walks of life value the environment.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Life
  • Value
  • Environment

• We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Soul
  • Past
  • Present

• The turbulent lives of their entrepreneurial ancestors led to grief and angst and adventures, and as Sirhan is fond of observing, an adventure is something horrible that happens to someone else.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Adventure
  • Grief

• The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Mother
  • Church
  • Baptism

• The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

  

  Penelope Spheeris
  • Music
  • Political
  • Appreciation

• For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

  

  Lionel Barrymore
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Dangerous