I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal.
I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.
I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.
Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.
I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community.
'Poltergeist' was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age - 5 or 6 years old - and it has one of the creepiest doll sequences with the clown, and ever since then, I've just been fascinated by dolls.
I plan my time to a 'T.' I plan when I am going to sleep; I plan when I am going to relax. I obviously leave time to have spontaneous life experiences - I think that's really important. But so much of it is setting up you mental energy in the right way to get the most out of your day and time.
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.
What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.
If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.
We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.
I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
But I also enjoy life... the more scrutiny I am under, the more confident I become. I am who I am. I can't do anything about it, and I love who I am.
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.
It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.