It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Terry PratchettColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob DylanIf you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Henry KissingerThere have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
Elon MuskI am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
Paulo CoelhoI’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.
Steven WrightIt takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. RooseveltStuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray BradburyThere’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.
Dave GrohlThis is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston ChurchillWhat inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.
Billie EilishI became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.
Angelina JolieI believe time wounds all heels.
John LennonMust not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
PlatoTo write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.
Jimmy CarterEvery existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul SartreEach age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAnd as a writer, one of the things that I’ve always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.
Stephen KingWe should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
Karl MarxGlory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon BonaparteAfter you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.
Ernest HemingwayFor in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. KennedyAnd the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
J. K. RowlingI don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
Noam ChomskyAll our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt DisneySometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGood writing is like a windowpane.
George OrwellThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. RooseveltSometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.
John KennedyI like the sound a typewriter makes.
Paul AusterWhat would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van GoghHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
Emily DickinsonAll fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.
Margaret AtwoodThe actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
David HareSome critics will write ‚Maya Angelou is a natural writer‘ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya AngelouWhen someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
George CarlinCreative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
Kanye WestI remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘
Mark ZuckerbergI often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.
Taylor SwiftIf you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.
George S. PattonWrite in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Ho Chi MinhWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar WildeI ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Franklin D. RooseveltSometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
Kanye WestGenerally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
Charles BukowskiDeath is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.
David BowieLegacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.
Bill GatesThe most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Kobe BryantLive to learn, and you will really learn to live.
John C. MaxwellI don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
Lana Del ReyThere has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltI go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘
Mr. TWe have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry PratchettA musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham MaslowMy career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.
Nipsey HussleDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SocratesMy dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘
Joe BidenAll difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu