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“An evil life is a kind of death.”
Ovid
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
William Shakespeare
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”
William Shakespeare
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
William Shakespeare
“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
William Shakespeare
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”
William Shakespeare
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.”
William Shakespeare
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”
William Shakespeare
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.”
William Shakespeare
“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.”
William Shakespeare
“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”
William Shakespeare
“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”
William Shakespeare
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”
William Shakespeare
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
William Shakespeare
“There's place and means for every man alive.”
William Shakespeare
“I bear a charmed life.”
William Shakespeare
“You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.”
Robert Redford
“Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.”
Robert Redford
“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
“I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.”
Robert Redford
“Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.”
Robert Redford
“What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.”
Robert Redford
“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”
Robert Rodriguez
“What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!”
Robert Rodriguez
“The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.”
Robert Rodriguez
“Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.”
Quentin Tarantino
