life quotes

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life. ”

— Robert Redford

“Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.”

— Robert Redford

“As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.”

— Robert Redford

“I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life. ”

— Robert Redford

“Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it. ”

— Robert Redford

“What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.”

— Robert Redford

“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!”

— Robert Rodriguez

“The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.”

“Our whole life is solving puzzles.”

“The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.”

“Death is just life's next big adventure.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Life is a lot like skateboarding.”

“I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.”

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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
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“If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.”

“I need drama in my life to keep making music.”

“Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. ”

“You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough. ”

“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. ”

“You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.”

“The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord. ”

“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”

“Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.”

— Christina Aguilera

“I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say. ”

— Christina Aguilera