What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two.
This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.
He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.
Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.
Learn new things and grow every day. Growing is living; live every moment; live all the way.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Helen Cooper: We may not enjoy living together, but dying together isn't going to solve anything.
Sean Parker: We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet!
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.
New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
In the same way that our actions can be worth more than a thousand words, the words ‘I’m sorry . . .’ carry enormous weight and value, and can start a process of self-healing and overall healing in any relationship.
For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt, just as we can also find reasons to proceed...I have chosen to side with faith and hope over doubt and despair.
As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.
I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but their worth will be best determined by the foundati...
He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.
In answer to a question you asked me not a long ago, a question I didn’t answer at the time…it is worth it. Love is a perilous dance too, you see. And if we stop dancing, we’ll die. Don’t ever stop dancing.
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanical...
We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth. I will honor my mother and take care of my family. Yes, I think. I am just a woman.
You don't cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight back. And pretty soon nobody's going to shove you anymore because they'll see it's not worth it.
