I think I earned the players’ respect, and that’s the ultimate in life, isn’t it? I didn’t care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect. – Al Barlick
Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor. – Bernie Siegel
It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that. – Adam Sandler
I’ve studied various schools of thought… I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I’ve found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times. – Cat Stevens
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that. – Bernard Beckett
If you want to get to know somebody you don’t ask other people: ‘How is she?’ You talk to the person herself. And then you don’t ask about facts like ‘date of birth’ or ‘profession of parents.’ but you talk about essential questions and themes in life. – Angelina Maccarone
I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water – fishermen, boatmen – and by a way of life that is dominated by water. – Berlie Doherty
From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy. – Alexander Koch
I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we’re in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things. – Brian K. Vaughan
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. – Hubert H. Humphrey
If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself. – Alex Ferguson
My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. ‘When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.’ – Armie Hammer
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don’t get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends. – Adam Driver
I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband. – Ali Landry
Everything in my life – family, friends, even my fiance – are all second to soccer. And I’ve won every tournament where I haven’t had anyone there. It just seems to work for me. I don’t think I’m going to change that. – Carli Lloyd
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier. – Anne Lamott
There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space. – Buzz Aldrin
I try not to date where I work. It makes life easier. I don’t say no to anybody because I’d hope that people wouldn’t say no to me just because I’m an actor – but they’d have to be pretty extraordinary. – Anne Hathaway
For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life. – Arthur Capper
I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake. – Bethenny Frankel
I’ve been composing music all my life and if I’d been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. – Anthony Hopkins
I think it’s really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life. – Ana Ortiz
Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day. – Bow Wow
I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater. – Ariana Grande
My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value. – Anthony Minghella