I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other… — Barack Obama 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
I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own… — Barbara Christian Copy Share Image
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about a very difficult time… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give… — Jaco Van Dormael Copy Share Image
Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That catharsis is really the core of the incredibly personal comedy of Louis C.K. or Marc Maron or whatever. And look -… — John Hodgman 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
I don't want to be so analytical of my own life, because if I start to be analytical of my own life,… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.… — Matt de la Pena 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
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
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
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
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
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 find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer. — Reverend Malcolm Boyd Copy Share Image
I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's.… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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
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
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
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely. — Ron Currie Jr 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