Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Weeks

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

Bill Nye

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

Bruce Lee

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Dalai Lama

The meaning of life is happiness.

Dalai Lama

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

Don DeLillo

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Albert Camus

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

C. S. Lewis

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

Charles de Gaulle

One does not arrest Voltaire.

Charles Caleb Colton

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

David Allen

Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention.

David Rakoff

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Jane Austen

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Jane Austen

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

Jane Austen

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Janette Turner Hospital

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Emile Cioran

To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.

Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.