Quotes about Life, page 14

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that...

Quote by Orson Scott about life

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Quote by Orson Scott about life

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Quote by Jane Austen about life

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Quote by Jane Austen about life

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about life

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Quote by Jane Austen about life

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Quote by Jane Austen about life

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about life

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Quote by Bette Davis about life

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Quote by Bette Davis about life

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Quote by Michael Chabon about life

Those things tend not to get reprinted. It's nice to be able to give them another chance at life by putting them on the web.

Quote by Michael Chabon about life

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Quote by Bette Davis about life

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Quote by Bette Davis about life

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Quote by Agatha Christie about life

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Quote by Bette Davis about life

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Quote by Agatha Christie about life

1968 was a difficult time in my life. I had a lot of problems, and to be far away from France was very difficult for me.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about life

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about life

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about life