Life Quotes

The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.

Sam Kean
- Brain
- Forever
- Blind
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

Faye Dunaway
- Different
- Mother
- Passion

There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.

Penelope Cruz
- Character
- Feeling
- Fear
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates
- Busy
- Beware
- Barrenness
When you grow up without a brother or sister, you tend to see things just through your own eyes. You have friends and everything, but you spend most of your time watching TV or sat in a room making decisions about your life on your own.

Bernard Sumner Joy Division
- Up
- Time
- Friends
The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.

Dana Perino
- Time
- Great
- American
I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.

Felicity Kendal
- People
- Good
- Why
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

Pat Conroy