Life Quotes

• Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Life

• As far as plans go, I never want to make any plans for my life, keeping to schedules. Obviously in reality, you have to do it to a certain extent, but this whole business we’re involved with is art to me. It’s making a nice piece of art. People expect you to turn on and turn off and fit into schedules and it’s a load of bollocks.

  

  Carl McCoy
  • Art
  • Business
  • Plans

• Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Important
  • Age
  • Feeling

• Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • Life
  • Maturity

• Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Fear

• I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • Art

• I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Effects

• Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Friends
  • Culture
  • Responsibility

• Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • Life
  • Grief

• You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Life
  • May

• The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.

  

  George Washington
  • Real
  • Moments
  • Crisis

• When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Career
  • Proud
  • Religious

• I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Art

• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Long
  • City
  • Beauty

• The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

  

  Katherine Anne Porter
  • Life
  • Real
  • Abuse

• Nature's crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nature

• Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Good
  • War
  • High

• I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Life
  • Worry

• The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Life
  • Training
  • Animal

• Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Child
  • Mask
  • Glasses

• Life is too short to be a boring company.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Company
  • Life is
  • Boring

• Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Say

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