Quotes

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Passions are the gales of life.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

'True Blood' was the most amazing adventure of my life; I met some of my best friends.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

I have dedicated my entire professional life to the United States of America.

Some people fight and stuff outside the cage, but I never liked that sort of thing. I just always wanted to do martial arts and I finally did it at 22 years old, so later in life, but it's all good.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

I'm not going to change and get the emotions out of my game. It's important to have emotions in sport. If you don't have emotions, it's like you don't really care. Because if you care about something, you're always going to be emotional. Doesn't matter if it's sports or personal life.

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

My first book was signed up when I was 13, and I've been writing ever since. But penning the 'Halo' series has been so much more rewarding than I ever expected. For three years, from the age of 16 to 19, I poured my life, my experiences, and a love for the supernatural that dates back to childhood into these books.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

I'd read a lot of books where the girls are in awe of the supernatural male, so I thought it was time to write about an awesome and super-powerful female who is also quite vulnerable and naive about life on earth.

When I first told people I was writing a book, some would say that was interesting, but others thought it was some holiday project and I would lose interest. I think my parents thought the same thing, and they were surprised when I kept going. I'm not sure I thought I would keep going, but then it became a big part of my life.

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.