I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier! Mickey Rourke abilityeasyfriend Change image and share on social
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country. James Otis applausecallconduct Change image and share on social
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Khalil Gibran belongchilddaughter Change image and share on social
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. Carl Clinton Van Doren americanbearcabin share on social
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Carl Clinton Van Doren bringdetailentertain Change image and share on social
The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. Carl Hiaasen aheadcurvedream share on social
Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie humilitylessonlife Change image and share on social
I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives. Jim Coleman coupleexperiencefeel Change image and share on social
I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life. Jack Kevorkian fingerlifelive Change image and share on social
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. Friedrich Nietzsche considerationjudgmentlife share on social
