Life Quotes

• I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • Years
  • Lasts

• Once you turn forty...the whole world is water off a duck’s back. Once you turn forty you realize that life is there to be wasted. (p. 165).

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Life
  • World
  • Water

• My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Opportunity

• I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.

  

  Carol Windley
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Art

• When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Food

• Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

  

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Ingenious

• Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

  

  T.A. Barron
  • Littles
  • Surprise
  • Lasts

• There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

  

  George Herbert
  • Life
  • Happy

• If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

  

  Roger Caras
  • Dog
  • Wrong
  • To Be

• You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

  

  Dominick Dunne
  • Life
  • Powerful

• It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

  

  Piper Laurie
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I think remixes give songs more life.

  

  Big Boi
  • Life

• I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Life
  • Chicago

• One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Life
  • Book

• You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

  

  Lori Loughlin
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Choices

• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Life
  • Curiosity

• [Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Voice
  • Catholic
  • Buddhist

• I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Time
  • May
  • Stop

• I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Business

• The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life is
  • Responsible
  • Lesson

• The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.

  

  Pontus Hulten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Paris

• To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Feels
  • Dead
  • Direction

• The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Life
  • Art

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