The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life. — Lazarus of Bethany Copy Share Image
That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life. — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I can't say that fantasy instead of the 3D world is fine or good, but I know in my own life I… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In my own life, there were many things that didn't happen for me in the outside world, but that gave me an… — Agapi Stassinopoulos 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
The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice,… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone… — Anne Taintor Copy Share Image
...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up… — Mos Def 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
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow 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
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
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'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
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
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
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
Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
