Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 4387.
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I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.
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I've just been so interested in what I was doing [genetic research] that I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.
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I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
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I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.
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I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
Source: Middlesex (2003) 217 -
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.
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I've seen too much in life to give up.
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I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Source: Tegen Samuel J. Woolf, Berlijn, zomer 1929 -
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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