Life Is Quotes - Page 36

• I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Sleep, People, Missing

  "Karl Lagerfeld on Diets, Sobriety, and Becoming a ‘Nicer Person’". Interview with Jessica Chastain, www.thecut.com. November 7, 2013.

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• Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Disaster, Wells

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.71, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

  Rachel Carson

  Past, Reality, Numbers

  Preface to "Humane Biology Projects" by the Animal Welfare Institute, 1961.

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• Life is a four-letter word.

  Lenny Bruce

  Four, Letters, Four Letter Words

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  Thomas Sowell

  Clever, Mean, Common Sense

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Thinking, Hair

  "The Lost World". Book by Randall Jarrell, p. 159, 1965.

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• The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

  Evan Esar

  Things In Life, Cooking, Looks

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• Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

  Evan Esar

  Fighting, People, Battle

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• Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.

  David Gerrold

  Littles, Surprise, Time Travel

  David Gerrold (2013). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.50, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

  David Gerrold

  Imagination, Important, Want

  David Gerrold (2013). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.114, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• [H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Blessing, Men, Miserable

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Heart, Fighting, Giving

  Louis Untermeyer (1935). “Selected poems and parodies of Louis Untermeyer”

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• Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

  Conrad Aiken

  Life, Song, Knives

  Conrad Potter Aiken, “Youth Imperturbable”

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• The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Love, Things In Life, Kind

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• The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.

  Diet Eman

  Country, Hands, Ideas

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• Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.

  Diet Eman

  Christian, Giving, Life Is Like

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• A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Home, Garden

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• Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell of me is crafted by that artistry. My life is His breath. But we mortals grow numb. We want to feel more. And so we add MSG to our earthly brands of holiness.

  N.D. Wilson

  Cells, Msg, Voice

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• I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.

  Jessie J

  Daughter, Niece, Hard Work

  "Jessie J: 'I'm a hard worker. I want to be great at everything I do'" by Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2013.

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• Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Moving, Modern Life, Speed

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.15, Penguin

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• Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Arrows, Let It Go

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happiness, Men, Air

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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• Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Sigh, Cease

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.300

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• I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.

  John Wayne

  Sex, Drink, Should

  Playboy interview, May 1971.

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• He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Feels, Stills

  Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

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