Quotes about: life

Comic characters have to have some kind of life breathed into them, and I'm never exactly sure how that's done, but you can tell when it works and when it doesn't. There's nothing worse than looking at a comic when somebody doesn't have that. It's like looking at store windows or something.
– Daniel Clowes
There's a lot of great cartoonists working, but I don't see too many people coming along who are of the 'where have you been all my life?' variety.
– Daniel Clowes
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
– Daniel Clowes
What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.
– Julie Cochrane
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
– William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
– William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Big plans, elaborate schemes and grand designs sort of messily bleeding into one another have created Chicago's reputation for rawness. But that rawness is just ambition-sometimes ambition run amuck-that has acquired a life of its own.
– Pat Colander
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
– Robin G. Collingwood
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
– Kitty O'Neill Collins
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
– Kitty O'Neill Collins
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.
– Joseph Collins
It's one thing to want a healthy child. But it's another thing to refuse to let an unhealthy child see the light of day. When we manipulate life in this way and diminish the humanity of the unborn, we become less human ourselves because we end up viewing life - all life, ours included - as a commodity that can be rejected by quality control.
– Charles W. Colson
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
– Laurie Colwin
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
– James Bryant Conant
Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
– James Bryant Conant
I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.
– Gary Condit
I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
– Jennifer Connelly
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
– Dennis Conner
Ordinarily, death will be determined according to the traditional criteria of irreversible cardiorespiratory repose. When, however, the respiratory and circulatory functions are maintained by mechanical means, their significance, as signs of life, is at best ambiguous.
– Lawrence H. Cooke
Oh! all of you poor single men, Don't ever give up in despair, For there's always a chance while there's life To capture the hearts of the fair, No matter what may be your age, You always may cut a fine dash, You will suit all the girls to a hair.
– George Cooper
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
– Richard Corliss
Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn, solemn as an ass. All great monuments are built over solemn asses.
– Thomas Corwin
Sports is the toy department of human life.
– Howard Cosell
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
– E. Joseph Cossman
I don't have that much mental energy, so I have to kind of guard it with my life.
– Jim Courier
Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
– Margaret Cousins
Life is an incurable disease.
– Abraham Cowley
I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
– Yvonne Craig
We've discovered the secret of life.
– Francis Crick
All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
– David Cronenberg
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
– David Cronenberg
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
– David Cronenberg
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
– Amanda Cross
Within this thin wafer of bread is caught up symbolically the labor of plow and of sowing, of harvest and threshing, of milling, of packing, of transportation, of financing, of selling and packaging. Man's industrial life is all there.
– Wilford O. Cross
The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.
– Randy Cross
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
– Cameron Crowe
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
– Crowfoot
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
– Abraham Crowley
If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.
– Billy Crudup
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
– Penelope Cruz
I had a horrible, horrible breakdown. It was just huge, like the worst period of my life, and it lasted for a couple of months.
– Penelope Cruz
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
– Penelope Cruz
Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.
– Celia Cruz
We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participation in society. For the prisoner, the chronically ill, the bedridden old and the destitute, we reserve the forced collective life.
– Elaine Cumming
A movie star seemed simply like the nearest equivalent we've got, we who live blessedly free of a monarchy, to that sense of the human form exalted, the life made fabulous simply by who and what the person is.
– Michael Cunningham
I've seen God in His creation and I've always loved Him. People might think I'm sick, but the Lord has turned my life around. I now know why I had to run again and win that fourth gold medal, to make a mark in people's minds. He is now using my situation to tell people about Him. We truly have a great God.
– Betty Cuthbert
My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.
– Betty Cuthbert
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
– Anthony J. D'Angelo
Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
– Edward Dahlberg
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
– Richard J. Daley
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
– Matt Damon
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
– Rodney Dangerfield
If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.
– Rodney Dangerfield
Life is just a bowl of pits.
– Rodney Dangerfield
Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.
– Charlie Daniels
Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.
– Charlie Daniels
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
– Charles Darwin
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
– William Henry Davies
A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.
– Dave Davies
I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.
– Dave Davies
I try to be really very aware of the alignments in things that happen. Because I think that we are so bogged down in all the mundaneness in life... and our bills, and the car won't start. I think we were put here on the planet to actually have a good time and help each other.
– Dave Davies
The book that I'm writing - it's to do with my life as a musician and writer and the spiritual side of my life.
– Dave Davies
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
– Bette Davis
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
– Bette Davis
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
– Bette Davis
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
– Jim Davis
For me, music and life are all about style.
– Miles Davis
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
– Willie Davis
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
– Angela Davis
Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.
– Bill C. Davis
The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are.
– Jonathan Davis
I've never made the first move in my whole life - I'm too scared. I couldn't kiss someone first. I'm extremely shy. I'm, like, so shy that actually... it's very painful what I'm going to say, but I don't think I've ever been with someone I really loved, because the people I really cared for, I didn't have, you know, the nerve to go after.
– Julie Delpy
Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
– Jim DeMint
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
– John Denver
I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.
– John Denver
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
– Johnny Depp
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
– Johnny Depp
It's fun to imagine what you could do with that kind of money. I could buy that island I've wanted to buy all my life, and live there with my family. Or I could buy some great piece of art that's just going to feed my eyes every day. It's fun to toy with the notion of that, and it is very tempting because money, unfortunately is freedom in today's world.
– Johnny Depp
The fact that I am the dad is the most surprising thing. I love my family very much. And here's the part where I become the cliche father: I have never in my life thought it was possible to feel such deep love, such an incredible connection to this amazing little human being. She's an angel.
– Johnny Depp
The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
– Johnny Depp
You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
– Johnny Depp
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
– Rene Descartes
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
– Richard M. DeVos
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
– Richard M. DeVos
The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
– Richard M. DeVos
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
– John Dewey
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
– John Dewey
I have always been pro-life, and I have felt very strongly about this from the first day I went to Washington, D.C., as a congressman in 1983.
– Mike DeWine
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.
– Mike DeWine
The sport of shooting is my life.
– Michael Diamond
In America we believe in Life, Liberty-and the pursuit.
– Al Diamond
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
– Princess Diana
Life is just a journey.
– Princess Diana
So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
– Princess Diana
I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
– Philip K. Dick