Life Quotes
-
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-
Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.
-
I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.
-
He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.
-
I've never been jealous of any girl in my life, but while shooting for 'Remo,' I was 'really jealous' of Sivakarthikeyan. The day I saw him in his pretty nurse look, I knew that he's going to steal the show.
-
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
-
I thought I would spend the rest of my life being a good tax lawyer. The interesting thing about being a tax lawyer is, none of your clients are poor. I had clients come to me and say, 'Can you help us make investments?' That led to me getting into the real estate business.
-
The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
-
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
-
It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.
-
If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.
-
In normal life, I'm just kind of chill. I don't normally get that angry.
-
Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
-
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.
-
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
-
I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.
-
I had established an enviable scheme of life. I refused to dance attendance in the ante-chambers of the great. If anyone wanted something from me he had to ask. I was much run after, but if the person was not of rank, or a friend, I worked painted for nobody.
-
As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.
-
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
-
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
-
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
-
Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
-
Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
-
Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
