I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?
Jeremy PaxmanLiterature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round
David LodgeRead as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George HerbertThere is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey.
Jim EnglandMy belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Steve IrwinGreater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life (On Harold Macmillan sacking 7 cabinet members)
Jeremy ThorpeAnyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. And this is all that life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson'What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become, except in dreams that blow in from out there bearing the fragrance of islands we have not yet sighted in our waking hours...' (David Malouf, An Imaginary Life, p.135)
David MaloufIf you live your life with very great caution, your most exciting experience may happen when your mother gives you milk and cookies.
John A MarshallMelbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?'
Bette MidlerA belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
Vannevar BushTerrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life
Jacques ChiracDesign is not for philosophy - it's for life
Issey MiyakePassionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric HofferMarriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
P G WodehouseI'm so thankful that I'm actually paid to do this thing that I've loved all my life.
Bob EzrinWith the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me.
Debi Mazar'Life itself is the most wonderful faery tale.'
Hans Christian AndersenWe live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris MurdochOnly actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul Richter'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it (Fortitude)
Sir Hugh WalpoleI learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor.
Susan HaywardThe most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustav FlaubertDogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger CarasYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia WoolfThe unexamined life is not worth living.
SocratesIf Glenn Hoddle is right then I must have been a failed football manager in a previous existence. [Hoddle had commented on a link between disability and sins in a past life]
David BlunkettI live a normal life, I take care of our baby, I cook, and I look forward to the weekend so I can spend some time with my husband. It's the kind of change we all secretly dream of, but which isn't always easy to deal with.
Angela LindvallOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee WilliamsIf there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.
Robert FrostThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWhy should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort of logic really isn't it!]
Terry GoodkindWoman embroiders man's life - Embroider is to beautify - The embroidery of cleanliness - Of a smile - Of gentle words.
Mary Wood AllenThere are some good points about being on the radio, but like all things in life it carries with it some negatives too.
Ira GlassMy mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George WashingtonYou are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyse your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
W Clement StoneMan's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. (Man for Himself)
Erich FrommWhen his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.
Stephen KingUntil you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
Geoffrey FisherI can’t wait to bring Jekyll and Hyde to life. They are the equivalent of a cinematic Hamlet.
Matt KeeslarIt is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.
Nathaniel HawthorneLife all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
Charlie SheenLife's under no obligation to give us what we expect
Margaret MitchellHow do I describe myself? I'd have to say that I'm an easy-going and funny person. I like everyone I meet. I tend to be a romantic and an idealist, though, and sometimes it's frustrating because it's a vision that's almost impossible to live up to in real life
Natassia MaltheCultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers
George MeredithI couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.
George CarlinAnd the cold marble leapt to life a God
H H MilmanI've dreamed about scoring on Sunday. I do like to visualise goals but it's not something I do every night - I do have a life you know! [he didn't score in the play off final]
Rob HulseThere are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.
David BrowerI sing from the heart... I sing the words of a song and really feel them, from the top of my head to the tip of my toes... I sing as though my life depends on it, and if I ever stop doing that then I'll stop living
Mario Lanza
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