The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
John MortimerNow 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 BlairLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarA film has its own life and takes its own time.
Aaron EckhartA moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes JuniorThough 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.
BuddhaIf your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. [on American Idol to a rubbish contestant]
Simon CowellIt'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 AndersonWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonAbout 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 EnfieldEven in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys
Laura PreponOne of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
Finley DunneThe Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
Arthur RimbaudThis 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 MuggeridgeModern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
Pope John Paul IIRead as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George HerbertAs complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life before the kids.
Delia EphronDifficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara De AngelisLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksThe 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 MaltzPublic opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man
William Ralph IngeIt 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 ToynbeeNo 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 RiversOne main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
Alfred North WhiteheadA 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 TeresaClever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil NoldeAll human life is there. [Slogan]
News Of The WorldThe 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 DaviesLife is a shit sandwich and every day you take another bite.
Joe SchmidtIf you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humour.
Jennifer Jones75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.
Glen HoddleI 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 HitlerI 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 FargoIf you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
T S EliotI hope that my experiences in my life have actually helped me understand that I do want crime tackled [on smoking cannabis]
Jacqui SmithYou've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur AsheI'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Arthur MillerLife 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 ShelleyI 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 LessingThe internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew BrownYou don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life.
Jens LehmannMy 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 NixonThe 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 GoldmanPoor Kate - she was just trying to lead her own life [on stories about Kate Moss in the papers]
Julian MacdonaldHistory 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 GoldbergThe average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole FranceI'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 HattonHold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
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