My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family. – Albrecht Durer
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author’s life. – Anne Michaels
My dad had such a cool job. When you’re a voiceover actor, it’s a whole different skill – you’re bringing these huge, larger-than-life monsters and characters to life. And, also, you have to learn accents. – Ashley Bell
I know it’s a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it’s more rewarding than anything I can imagine. – Andrew Wiles
Finding the one is not just a feeling, it’s an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend. – America Ferrera
Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, ‘You ought to go into politics.’ I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I’m not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be. – Brad Wenstrup
I went from an unemployed actor’s life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It’s not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare’s finest characters, but, hey, that’s the way it has happened. – Catherine Tate
I can’t find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it’s an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they’re required to not have abortions, could die and could – so I favor a woman’s right to choose. – Alan Dershowitz
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play. – Anna Friel
There’s no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there’s no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives. – Anne Enright
I rarely joke unless I’m in front of a camera. It’s not what I am in real life. It’s what I do for a living. – Christopher Guest
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can’t think of one single book that changed my life in any way. – Charles Kuralt
When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given. – Barbara Sher
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them. – Brian Eno
We’re not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don’t want them meddling in ours. – Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn’t know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That’s what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life. – Adan Canto
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity. – Annie Besant
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. – Amy Winehouse
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life. – Andre Rieu
In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We’re in love with each other beyond belief. – Christian Bale
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. – Agnes Martin
My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can’t conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him. – Anne Graham Lotz
