“Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
Source: MaddAddam
“Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
“I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life…”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“I'm just enjoying my life. I suggest you try it.”
Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
“The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck.”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
“One in particular, whose warped will it ever was even in the upper world (hence his life ended ill) to insult misfortune and wax sour at prosperity.”
Unus ibi ante alios, cui laeva voluntas
semper et ad superos (hinc et gravis exitus aevi)
insultare malis rebusque aegrescere laetis.
Source: Thebaid, Book II, Line 16
“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
Stephen King book The Shining
Source: The Shining (1977)
“In real life, I'm just an actor. I play pretend. I tell stories.”
Kerry Washington (1977) American actress
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
As quoted in USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-retire-talk_x.htm (2005). <br class="br">Reported in The New Yorker as: “At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.” http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/06/27/050627ta_talk_remnick <br class="br">On himself