If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon. – Gary Oldman
It’s kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life. – Noah Baumbach
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc. – N. R. Narayana Murthy
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life. – Emile Durkheim
As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes – and they’re the wealthiest generation in our country – to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years. – David Rubenstein
Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we’ve heard, and mourn the loss, even though we’re spared what the close-loved ones must endure – the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life. – Mimi Kennedy
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life. – Donald Rumsfeld
If you’re a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You’re probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don’t involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life. – Patti Stanger
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. – Ernst Mach
My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around. – Neneh Cherry
In real life I do a lot of reconnaissance and then kind of choose the guy I’m going to go after. Not like stalking, but I just want a little background info. That might be why I haven’t had many bad dates. – Claire Coffee
My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me. – Daphne Guinness
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. – Franz Liszt
Whether you’re a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life. – Michael Sandel
Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn’t have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation. – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones. – Don Herold
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose. – Paul Theroux
I want to do things that will change someone’s life, not something they’ll forget about tomorrow. – Daveigh Chase
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don’t get wise, but you don’t get wise unless you age. – Erik Erikson
There’s no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson’s life. – D. B. Sweeney
My professional life shouldn’t be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life’s blood. It’s my calling. – Danielle de Niese
We have fallen in love with the body. That’s that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That’s the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life. – George Wald
‘Rust’ really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it’s really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life. – Corbin Bernsen