There’s a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. – Harold Pinter
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! – Gustave Flaubert
There is no better example of an older brother’s love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith. – Heber J. Grant
I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn’t want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again. – Genie Francis
I think plays have nothing to do with one’s own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret – that’s what drama is about! – Harold Pinter
For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it’s the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you. – Gene Saks
Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no better love affair. – Gloria Gaynor
Until you know that life is interesting – and find it so – you haven’t found your soul. – Geoffrey Fisher
You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. – Grantland Rice
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. – Helen Keller
Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that. – Gong Li
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. – Gustave Flaubert
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they’re sort of larger than life and I think I’m still suffering from that reaction. – Guy Ritchie
Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food. – Grant Achatz
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life. – Henry David Thoreau
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they’re thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie. – Haylie Duff
I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God. – Hakeem Olajuwon
I’m really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won’t put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It’s the choices I have made. – Giovanni Ribisi
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them. – Hale White
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Preparing food is one of life’s great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That’s not cooking – that’s working! – Guy Fieri
I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. – Gloria Naylor
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. – Herbert Croly
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one’s understanding of the complexities of life, and I’m bad at it. I’m slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind. – Gregory Maguire
If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done. – Henry Rollins
Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I’d be a very unhealthy person without it. – Greg Wise