Life Quotes

• I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pleasure
  • Disappointment
  • Shadows

• I'm a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it's tracts of homes.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Different
  • Small
  • Boy

• When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Future
  • Control

• I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • City
  • Easy

• What's interesting is often people think life changes when you have a record deal and you do all kinds of stuff. Obviously your life changes, but nothing changes your life like getting married and having kids.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • People
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Money
  • Patience

• What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening-all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Future
  • Wall

• Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

  

  Ellen Swallow Richards
  • World
  • Action
  • Understanding

• There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.

  

  Mark Barrowcliffe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• I think if you can affect somebody's life with one song, that's such a powerful tool to reach millions of people on so many different levels.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • People
  • Different
  • Song

• In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.

  

  Mario Vazquez
  • Life
  • American
  • Honesty

• I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Life
  • Marine

• 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Wall

• Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Live
  • Why
  • Die

• In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Lord

• We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Life

• I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.

  

  James Woods
  • Life
  • Selfish

• The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Life
  • Music

• The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

  

  Jimmy Rushing
  • People
  • Believe
  • Daily

• Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

  

  Kabir
  • Thinking
  • Strong
  • Thoughts

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