Life Quotes

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

I've always been known for bold flavors and rustic cooking, but there is another side to me. As you evolve as a cook, you understand life and how serious it is. There comes a point where there's got to be a better balance.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

What a day-to-day affair life is.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.

There's no bigger supporter in Jessica's life than me.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.