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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
John Mortimer

Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister]
Tony Blair

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig Ziglar

A film has its own life and takes its own time.
Aaron Eckhart

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior

Though all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavour of the soup.
Buddha

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. [on American Idol to a rubbish contestant]
Simon Cowell

It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
Pamela Anderson

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

About ten years ago I appeared on Wogan as myself. The next day a man came up to me in the street and said, 'You're Harry Enfield, aren't you? I love your characters! Stavros cracks me up and as for Loadsamoney - he's the biz! But I saw you on Wogan last night - you're a right prat in real life, aren't you?'
Harry Enfield

Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys
Laura Prepon

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
Finley Dunne

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
Arthur Rimbaud

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
Pope John Paul II

Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life before the kids.
Delia Ephron

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara De Angelis

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives
Albert Schweitzer

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to 'look forward to' - to work for and hope for.
Maxwell Maltz

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man
William Ralph Inge

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold Toynbee

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Joan Rivers

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
Alfred North Whitehead

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Arthur Miller

'In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.'
Mother Teresa

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde

All human life is there. [Slogan]
News Of The World

The universe contains vastly more order than life on Earth could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own. [Entropy in the universe]
Paul Davies

Life is a shit sandwich and every day you take another bite.
Joe Schmidt

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humour.
Jennifer Jones

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.
Glen Hoddle

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.

I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker
Adolf Hitler

I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.
Donna Fargo

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
T S Eliot

I hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui Smith

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Arthur Miller

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing

The internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown

You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life.
Jens Lehmann

My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.
Cynthia Nixon

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman

Poor Kate - she was just trying to lead her own life [on stories about Kate Moss in the papers]
Julian Macdonald

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.
Arthur Goldberg

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France

I'm going to say hello to two friends who I've shut out of my life for the past 10 weeks while I trained the hardest I've ever done for a fight. So welcome back Mr Guinness and Mr Dom Perignon.
Ricky Hatton

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes



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