Life Quotes
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You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.
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Mancini was a big part of my life. I sang a lot of his music, and he became a good buddy.
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I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.
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One who by himself is mild enough and void of all offence will become terrible and fierce by being in bad company, and will most cruelly take the life of many men, and would kill many more if they were not hindered by bodies having no soul, that have come out of caverns - that is, breastplates of iron.
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
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Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.
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Like everything, personal relationships and all that stuff is sort of put on ice while you go off to your location for five or six months. So, do I feel more settled in my life and in my work? Absolutely, yeah.
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Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.
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I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.
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I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.
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That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
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I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
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I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.
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When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.
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Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.
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Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.
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I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.
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Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ‘must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.
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I do try to live a normal life.
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
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Once I got to the U.S., and I realized we weren't going to go back to Britain, I was ready to commit to starting a bigger life here.
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.
