“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) French mime and actor
The Guardian (London, 11 August 1988)
Sketchbook 1946-1949
“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) French mime and actor
The Guardian (London, 11 August 1988)
“Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.”
Daniel Pennac (1944) French author
Source: Better than Life
“Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she’s spent a lifetime doing it.”
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
2010s, (July 26, 2016)
“A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime”
Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
“911. Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist
As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders