I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life. - Karen Allen
It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket. - Hank Snow
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value. - Ellen Goodman
I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids. - Lisa Marie Presley
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life. - Paul A. Volcker
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity. - Chris Rock
When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life. - Ben Nicholson
I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life. - Artie Lange
I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so. - Sidney Poitier
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone. - Thornton Wilder
Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be. - Layne Staley
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play. - Anna Friel
I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all. - Nigel Dennis
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. - Nicolas de Chamfort
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves. - Helen Garner
I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing. - Tony Scott
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life. - Paul Tsongas
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate. - John Jay Hooker
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. - Benjamin Disraeli
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. - Hosea Ballou
Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it. - Peter Jennings
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life. - Ella Maillart