I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.
I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.
By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.
Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.
So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don't see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That's the message I have.
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.
I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.
I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.
The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
I have gone through a lot of things, everything that you can imagine in life, but the best has been Gerard and Milan.
There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.
What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.
The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.