Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

Lyndsy Fonseca

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Samuel Johnson

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Georges Clemenceau

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...

Ernest Hemingway

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Bob Dylan

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

Maurice Freehill

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson

You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.

Steve Maraboli

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

Tracey Ullman

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Woody Allen

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

Maureen O'Hara

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Stirling Moss