I wouldn’t call it bitter. I think it’s just sweet. I’ve always believed my life seems like it’s gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don’t see any I don’t see any bitterness about it. – Greg Norman
I was sort of on a mission with ‘American Splendor.’ I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life. – Harvey Pekar
Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully. – Greg Graffin
I’ve never worn costume jewelry in my life. It’s really very self-defeating. Why should a man buy a woman real jewelry when she wears false pieces? – Gloria Guinness
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. – George Saintsbury
Marriage is a linchpin in many women’s lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have. – Geraldine Stutz
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and… what I learned was life was big ride for them. They’d seen the dark side of humanity… but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like. – Gary Carr
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. – Hans Hofmann
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. – Gabriel Marcel
Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don’t lead the life you should lead. – Guillaume Canet
The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don’t have to hang out with the ‘Paris Review’ crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer. – Hanya Yanagihara
I’ve been around so long and no matter if I’ve done good things or bad things, or my personal life has been good or bad, the fans have always stuck with me. – Hulk Hogan
What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It’s found in a group of others. – Hanya Yanagihara
I won’t deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward. – Heidi Julavits
As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible. – Hank Stram
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn’t gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty. – Ian Hislop
There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God. – George A. Smith
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn’t have the background to prepare me for this business life. – Glen Taylor
The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That’s a common thread through humanity on any street you go to. – Gavin Hood
I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay. – Harry Triguboff
The purpose of God’s creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life. – Henry B. Eyring
The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it. – Guy Finley
If I couldn’t get published tomorrow I’d still be writing. It’s something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable. – Graham Joyce
I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn’t raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. – Hugh Jackman
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers. – George Porter
I try not to be but I’m super-neurotic about diet. I’m neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I’m like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I’m super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes. – Gwen Stefani