Quotes of: Contemporary-life Keyword

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

George Steinbrenner

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

George Takei

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

George W. S. Trow

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

Gemma Ward

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

Hillary Clinton

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

Helen Fisher

Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.

Howard Finster

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

Hill Harper

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Henri Matisse

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Henry Rollins

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

Harry Shum, Jr.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Harry Stack Sullivan

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

Holland Taylor

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

Hunter Tylo

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

Herschel Walker

As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

Ian Holm

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

Jeffrey Archer

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

James A. Baldwin

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

Jillian Bell