Life Quotes

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.
– Hilary Swank
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
– Tim Robbins
I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
– Jimmy Carr
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
– Tom Petty
I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
– Kat Dennings
I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.
– Steve Jobs
I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
– Lady Gaga
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
– Hillary Clinton
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
– Jean-Michel Basquiat
I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
– Donal Logue
I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.
– Ashley Madekwe
I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.
– Eva Longoria
I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.
– Tracee Ellis Ross
I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
– Jhonen Vasquez
I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.
– Cory Monteith
I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
– Jean Paul Gaultier
I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
– Meryl Streep
I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.
– Sanjay Dutt
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
– Zona Gale
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
– Ann Brashares
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
– Jack Black
I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.
– Michael J. Fox
I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
– Jean Claude Van Damme
I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
– Wallace Shawn
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.
– Todd Gitlin
I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
– Ellen Pompeo
I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.
– James Belushi
I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
– Ed Westwick
I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.
– Deion Sanders
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
– Joel Osteen
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
– Hedy Lamarr
I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.
– Puff Daddy
I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!
– Liz Phair
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.
– Bob Geldof
I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
– Vanessa Paradis
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
– Rosanna Arquette
I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
– Dolly Parton
I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.
– Shania Twain
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?
– Shahrukh Khan
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
– Ian MacKaye
I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.
– Corey Feldman
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
– Jane Smiley
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
– Cate Blanchett
I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
– David McCallum
I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.
– Brit Marling
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
– Steve Jobs
I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.
– Marguerite Moreau
I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.
– Keira Knightley
I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.
– Dennis Miller
I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.
– Nick Clegg
I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.
– Chad Lowe
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
– Luke Ford
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
– Joseph Rotblat
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
– B. F. Skinner
I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.
– Brittany Murphy
I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.
– Mike Huckabee
I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'
– Dhani Harrison
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
– Treat Williams
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
– Luke Ford
I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
– Clay Aiken
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
– Sidney Poitier
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
– Jack White
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
– Scott Turow
I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
– Marat Safin
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
– Ayrton Senna
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
– Tony Campolo
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
– Mayer Hawthorne
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
– Sidney Poitier
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– Victoria Woodhull
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
– Shania Twain
I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
– Valerie Jarrett
I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.
– Amy Poehler
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
– Wislawa Szymborska
I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.
– Richard Branson
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
– Charles R. Swindoll
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
– Ron Silver
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
– Dolly Parton
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
– Charles Kuralt
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
– Sting
I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.
– Greg Kinnear
I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.
– Emmanuelle Beart
I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.
– Channing Tatum
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
– Mos Def
I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'
– Lea Michele
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
– Vincent van Gogh
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
– Peter Singer
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
– Jerome K. Jerome
I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. There's no inorganic food in my life these days. There's no junk food. There's not a lot of sugar. There's no soy. I mean, really everything that's going into my body is pretty pure.
– Ginnifer Goodwin
I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'
– Kristen Wiig
I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.
– Charlize Theron
I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
– Major Taylor
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
– Shelby Lynne
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
– Alice Walker
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
– Julius Erving
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
– Jimmy Carter
I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.
– Jane Seymour
I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.
– Michael J. Fox
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
– Charles Spurgeon
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
– Laura Linney
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.