The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. Sting acceptancedeathhappily Change image and share on social
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. Graham Coxon biteblurdaughter share on social
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. Tori Amos composerdreamlife Change image and share on social
Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not. Tom Brady americanculturefence share on social
It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions. George Woodcock dealdifferencegreat Change image and share on social
Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause. Stephen Kinzer americanbaskervillecarry share on social
'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life. Stephen Kinzer ajaxbringcut Change image and share on social
Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive. Sugar Ray Leonard boxenjoygive Change image and share on social
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. Steven Weinberg effortfarcegrace Change image and share on social
Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous. Gad Elmaleh alivebackcasablanca share on social