Quotes

I've been doubted all my life.

Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

But Jimmy sees life as an opportunity and happiness as a choice. He's cheery in the morning. He wakes up happy. He gets the joke of life.

I think it's such a courageous thing to look around and say, 'If I don't get to be one of the lucky ones who are born with a family, how do I put that in my life?'

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.

In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

The first time I read 'Barbecue,' I fell in love with it. I never laughed so hard in my life.

My mother was the love of my life.

To a certain extent, just like my children, I nurture my writing until the point when it has to get out and face the outside world, where it takes on a life of its own. That is a purpose of any artist and their art.

I've been in a male dominated industry my entire life, and I've seen that discrimination every industry that I've been in.

Many of our veterans face an invisible, life-long struggle to come to terms with horrifying experiences they endured while protecting the rest of us.

Trees are key to not only protecting our environment, but our way of life.

How we handle mental illness can mean life or death.

My life has been a series of successes and failures. As much as I have succeeded, I have also failed.

Democratic women don't hold a monopoly on breaking glass ceilings. It's Republican women, too. We all have been breaking barriers most of our life.

My life is devoted to business and supporting my family.

I don't have anything to do with Elvis' private life.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

Its a strange thing because the West is rooted in a very harsh reality of hard living and scratching out a life for yourself, but its also wrapped in this mythos. There are of these tall tales and crazy stories about the West that you hear and can never really be sure of whats true and whats not.