I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.
I'll be working with kids for the rest of my life.
There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.
I've been a huge fan of all things paranormal my whole life. For me, it was always a question of when, not if, I was going to write a paranormal series. I dipped my toe in the genre by incorporating a mystical curse into the 'MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy.'
I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.
The quality of life decreases with heightened security.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
I'm a comedian in real life. I always goof around; I'm out-going; and I talk with everybody, especially through Twitter these days!
My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.
I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.
No one is happy all his life long.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.
Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
Sound comes out of a life experience.
I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact sport.
My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.
My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two.
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life.
I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.
It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.