All Quotes

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
‐‐ John Guare

The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.
‐‐ Marion Marechal-Le Pen

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.
‐‐ James Gray

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next.
‐‐ Amber Le Bon

The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.
‐‐ Constance Jablonski

The life of a repo man is always intense.
‐‐ Alex Cox

The life of a singer is you have to pay your bills. You have to take a gig.
‐‐ Judith Hill

The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
‐‐ John Burroughs

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.
‐‐ Analeigh Tipton

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

The life of an actor is not filled with limousines and talk-show interviews. I've moved crates of beer; I've been a bartender, personal assistant, butler. But all those skills have helped me in the business aspect of what I do.
‐‐ Vincent Rodriguez III

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
‐‐ Kabir Bedi

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Duff

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.
‐‐ Johnny Weir

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.
‐‐ Courtney B. Vance

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
‐‐ Chanakya

The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.
‐‐ Leonard Slatkin

The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.
‐‐ Billy Collins

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
‐‐ James M. Barrie

The life of General Alex Dumas is so extraordinary on so many levels that it's easy to forget the most extraordinary fact about it: that it was led by a black man, in a world of whites, at the end of the eighteenth century.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.
‐‐ Katharine Lee Bates

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
‐‐ David Hume

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.
‐‐ Rose Schneiderman

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
‐‐ Lester B. Pearson

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
‐‐ Said Nursi

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.
‐‐ John Grierson

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
‐‐ Georg Buchner

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.
‐‐ Bill Drayton

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
‐‐ Hippocrates

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
‐‐ Geoffrey Chaucer

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau

The life you're leading is the sexiest part of you.
‐‐ Nigel Barker

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
‐‐ James Woods