Top 100 My Life Has Been Quotes
#1. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Jane Wiedlin
#3. I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova
#4. Overall, my life has been one of survival, and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.
Rachel Dolezal
#5. In my whole existence, I have been lost in many different ways. However, there has always been someone who shines brightly for me, and helps me find my way home. I have come to realize that Jesus is my brightest Star who always rescues me and consistently helps me through.
Kcat Yarza
#6. I like my whiskey neat and strong just as I like my women. Women who have matured in their minds and bodies; women who have faced the storms of life!
Because my life has always been about the thrill with the raging storms!
Avijeet Das
#7. ... my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me ... "
"I've never much cared for horror stories.
Anthony Horowitz
#8. I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
Maeve Binchy
#9. The fashion world has always been part of my life.
Willa Holland
#10. I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
Robert E. Howard
#11. It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love.
Heather Blanton
#12. The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.
Larry Ellison
#13. My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.
Billie Jean King
#14. Liv has always been the one part of my life I got right.
Nina Lane
#15. My life didn't get good until I died, Alex. The very best part of it has been here in this flat, with you.
L.A. Gilbert
#16. I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
Robert Smith
#17. All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)
Larry Brown
#18. My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.
Eva Hesse
#19. I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.
Kiefer Sutherland
#20. I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.
David Oyelowo
#21. Steppenwolf has always been at the center of everything in my professional life.
Anna D. Shapiro
#22. It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.
Joseph Fiennes
#23. My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#24. I have always felt a connection between daily life and art ... my reality has been my key.
Mirella Freni
#25. The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.
Steven Spielberg
#26. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.
Jim Thompson
#27. You light up the blackness that has been my life, and I don't know how to ever be the kind of man you need and deserve, but I want to try. For you, for me, and for us.
Jasinda Wilder
#28. My life has been less like a light switch suddenly turning on, and more like a dimmer switch slowly turned up, over time, more in some moments than others.
Dan Millman
#29. I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.
Susan Sullivan
#30. My life has been a series of emergencies.
Lana Turner
#31. For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
Barbara Tuchman
#32. I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?'
Scott Thompson
#33. Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
Paul Valery
#34. I don't live life a whole lot differently than some of the more notable characters in my books. It has been a road less traveled, but worth every step along the way.
P.S. Meronek
#35. It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities.
Charles Kennedy
#36. My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
Magnus Carlsen
#37. The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.
I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.
Nikita Gill
#38. Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.
Dean Koontz
#39. Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
Adam Savage
#40. My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
Marian Wright Edelman
#41. You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.
Lee Kuan Yew
#42. She has a charm that is incomparable. She has a beautiful heart that flows with love. And she has a sensitive soul that enthralls with magic. She was the spark I had been waiting for all my life.
Avijeet Das
#43. Do you know, Armand, I can't remember the last time I felt safe." "I know what you mean," said Gamache. "It feels as though this has been going on forever." "No, I don't mean just this mess. I mean all my life.
Louise Penny
#44. I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.
Siri Hustvedt
#45. Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.
Pete Seeger
#46. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]
Stephen Hawking
#47. One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food
Edna Lewis
#48. I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
George Saunders
#49. The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
George Michael
#50. That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
Rem Koolhaas
#51. I've been thinking about your Father a lot lately, and I've realized something. I married Gary specifically for the fact that he wasn't Curtis. If your Father has an opposite, it's Gary. I just need to decide if I want to spend the rest of my life with someone I married by default.
Matthew Norman
#52. I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
Patsy Kensit
#53. Reading has always been the great love of my life.
Darren Shan
#54. My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.
James D. Watson
#55. I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.
Richard Flanagan
#56. It has been the best thing that has ever happened in my life.
Novak Djokovic
#57. I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.
Peter Diamandis
#58. I certainly believe that having my husband be in my life has been a tremendous blessing.
Dominique Moceanu
#59. Jiu-Jitsu has been one of the most valuable tools I've ever had in my life.
Joe Rogan
#60. My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
J. R. Martinez
#61. The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.
Christian Slater
#62. My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way ...
Jeff Goldblum
#63. This girl is some strange cross-pollination of wide-eyed innocence and tear-your-balls-off scrappiness and all I can think is, where the hell has she been all my life?
Autumn Doughton
#64. It feels like home, far from home, yet homely. I have always been a fan of Delhi's practical life not that i have lived in an aspiration or yearning to make a living here, but delhi has always been on my soapbox.
Parul Wadhwa
#65. My friends tend not to style me, fortunately. But if we're in a public setting, they must do it there. Of course, there has been a maturing process for me and for them. But such is my life. I'm very comfortable with both the role and the life I live in relation to my nearest and dearest.
Mette-Marit, Crown Princess Of Norway
#66. I'm not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That's what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I've been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.
Johnny Cash
#67. No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.
Suzanne Collins
#68. The second time, I had a freakin' vampire at my back." I froze. Oh shit. "No offense, Mr. Moreau," I quickly added.
"None taken, Agent Fraser. During the course of my lengthy life, I have been called many things, but 'freakin' has never been one of them. I'll consider it a novelty.
Lisa Shearin
#69. Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.
Gloria Estefan
#70. All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
#71. Everything has been a disaster since I decided my life as it was wasn't good enough."
"It wasn't good enough," she said.
"It was good enough for me."
"Then why have you been trying so hard to change it?
Rainbow Rowell
#72. For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world."
"And that, my lord?"
"Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.
Margaret Craven
#73. I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.
Lee Kuan Yew
#74. Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.
Gloria Estefan
#75. The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.
Blake Judd
#76. My whole life has been dedicated to public service.
Leon Panetta
#77. No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
Stevie Wonder
#78. My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.
Gong Li
#79. I've been offered things from alot of different labels and stuff like that, but it's just like, it has to be perfect. I'm not going to sign my life away.
Jhene Aiko
#80. One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.
Oliver Stone
#81. For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.
Jenny Diski
#82. Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.
Joe Taslim
#83. It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.
Winona Ryder
#84. Sometimes it seems to me that that's all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.
Amanda Hocking
#85. As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.
Robert Redford
#86. Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never seen. Now that I am a hundred years old (this September) it still takes me to the outside world I can no longer visit.
Phyllis A. Whitney
#87. Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
Vidya Balan
#88. I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.
Amy Koppelman
#89. It has always been my belief that a pet owner has a special responsibility to do everything that can be done to make the pet's life as fulfilling and peaceful as possible.
Larry Levin
#90. I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
Zubin Mehta
#91. All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
Bear Grylls
#92. I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.
Madeleine Albright
#93. My path, my life, my career has really been a journey from moving from, in a sense, darkness to light. From pain to joy through the experience of yoga and meditation. It's an ongoing adventure that's unfolding every day.
MC Yogi
#94. My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.
Apolo Ohno
#95. Just the desire to play a mom, wanting to play someone actually closer to who I am and where I am in my life. People are used to seeing me play the single, hot girl, which has been fun, but at the same time, this role is more akin to my natural proclivities.
Essence Atkins
#96. My entire life has been one big, fat whopper of a lie, and my parents betrayed me in the worst possible way.
I don't care if they believed they were protecting me.
You don't lie to the people you profess to love, no matter how painful the truth is.
Siobhan Davis
#97. My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
Ahmed Ben Bella
#98. Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
Martin Landau
#99. I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.
William Holden
#100. The first goal to be able to divide my life between two lovely places, an island off the coast of France and a village surrounded by Spanish mountains has been achieved.
Anne Weale
