Life Quotes

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
– Jack Lemmon
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
– Bob Lemon
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
– John Lennon
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
– Annie Lennox
An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.
– Jay Leno
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
– Jay Leno
Dick Cheney told reports that he has a new outlook on life. He says the best part of waking up is... waking up! I guess the doctors don't even put stitches in Cheney's chest anymore - they now just use Velcro.
– Jay Leno
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
– Max Lerner
When you act, you do have to use your own life experiences and bring them onto the stage, dragging those emotions out.
– John Leslie
When you work in television it's all about you, the camera is on you and the autocue is counting you in. The person I am on TV is the same person I am in real life, but acting means playing a completely different person.
– John Leslie
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
– Doris Lessing
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
– Doris Lessing
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
– Doris Lessing
At one point I was doing a live television Western five half hours a week with horses and stunt men and it was a nightmare. The reason that this is apposite is that it accustomed me a) to work quickly b) to work with many cameras and c) to be hysterical. And I've carried that with me in my life and work.
– Richard Lester
Contemporary serial music is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.
– Claude Levi-Strauss
It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
– Carl Levin
I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.
– Monica Lewinsky
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?
– C. S. Lewis
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
– C. S. Lewis
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
– Wyndham Lewis
Life is about timing.
– Carl Lewis
All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.
– Juliette Lewis
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
– Juliette Lewis
Jesus, Drop Kick Me Through the Goal Post of Life.
– Jerry Lee Lewis
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
– Daniel Day Lewis
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
– Richard Lewis
The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.
– Michael Lewis
Where there is life there is wishful thinking.
– Gerald F. Lieberman
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
– Bob Lilly
Football is like life and I know life.
– Rush Limbaugh
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
– Mary Todd Lincoln
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.
– Joseph C. Lincoln
Charles is life itself-pure life, force, like sunlight-and it is for this that I married him and this that holds me to him-caring always, caring desperately what happens to him and whatever he happens to be involved in.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
– Charles Lindbergh
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
– Charles Lindbergh
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
– Charles Lindbergh
I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
– John Walker Lindh
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
– Vachel Lindsay
I came from the air. I came from the moon. I just landed. Traveling, it's a constant in my life. Sometimes I feel like I'm naturally high because of this lifestyle. Sometimes I really feel like I'm the air or on the moon, and that's that. Of course, I originally came from China.
– Bai Ling
I worked with a wild leopard, who bit me. But I kept on working with him, because I have a wild side. I think I was an animal in a previous life.
– Bai Ling
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
– Bai Ling
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
– Charles de Lint
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
– Charles de Lint
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
– Walter Lippmann
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
– Walter Lippmann
I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.
– Meat Loaf
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
– John Locke
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
– David Lodge
Life is full of risks anyway, why not take them?
– Lindsay Lohan
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
– Vince Lombardi
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
– Vince Lombardi
People are more laid back and live life a little slower in Winchester. In New York (and now Los Angeles), everything is bam, bam, bam - you have to go fast and move.
– Matt Long
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Into each life some rain must fall.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love - the first fluttering of its siken wings.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play. They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip. It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.
– Al Lopez
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
– Sophia Loren
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
– Sophia Loren
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
– Sophia Loren
I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. I think part of maturity is knowing who you are. If people don't like it, it is not going to affect how I feel.
– Rob Lowe
I have other obligations now-the show, my family, my life...though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
– Rob Lowe
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
– Amy Lowell
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
– James Russell Lowell
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
– James Russell Lowell
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
– James Russell Lowell
I'm lucky that I hooked up with my husband because he not only helps me but there's a joy for him as well. He enjoyed this part of me when we met. He was never threatened by it, by a woman who wanted a career. In fact, I think he prefers this, that I have a life as well. And I know my children have always known that they came first.
– Susan Lucci
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
– Henry R. Luce
To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.
– Henry R. Luce
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
But the thing about skydiving: I feel when you do something where it's almost like your whole life flashes in front of you, it's supposed to be that when you hit the ground, you don't fear anything. And it's really a motivating force for you to just get out there and do as much as you can, because it's crazy.
– Ludacris
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
– Richard Lugar
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
– Martin Luther
Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
– Martin Luther
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
– David Lynch
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
– Robert Lynd
Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?
– Stephen LaBerge
Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.
– Jules Laforgue
His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.
– John Lahr
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
– R. D. Laing
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
– Alan Lakein
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.
– Letitia Landon
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
– Letitia Landon
My private life has nothing to do with my films.
– Fritz Lang
I hate it when they say, 'He gave his life for his country.' They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
– Gene R. LaRocque
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
– Gary Larson
When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.
– Ali Larter
A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
– Christopher Lasch
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times - the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie - seem attractive by comparison.
– Christopher Lasch
Flowers, beautiful flowers, children, humanity, lovely, love, life, embrace all - please!
– Yusef Lateef
Dressing is a way of life.
– Yves Saint Laurent
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
– Lucy Lawless
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
– Emma Lazarus
Basically I modelled myself on James Bond throughout life. I was an adrenalin junkie from day one.
– George Lazenby
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
– Norman Lear