Life Quotes
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The fact speak for themselves.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
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A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
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All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.
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Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.
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My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I've spent my whole life pushing sugar. People aren't going to stop eating sugar-we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. When you're with a group of people and you take a bite of a really great dessert, the conversation just stops. We don't want to get rid of those moments.
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I have spent my life dreaming of your face. Now, I have found it.
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I do everything in this life-or-death way.
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Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.
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As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.
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Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.
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I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
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A life without a proper direction is a burden. It becomes a liability for the society. It drives people towards terrorism and violence.
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.
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The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.
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Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
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The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.
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Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people.
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At any one particular time, there is something in my life that is suffering as a result of my many responsibilities; most of the time, it's me.
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A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
