If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way.… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize… — Ralph Maxwell Copy Share Image
I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life,… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own… — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that… — Wendy O. Williams Copy Share Image
I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean,… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely. — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own… — Callie Thorne Copy Share Image
In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened.… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me… — John Feldmann Copy Share Image
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
