Quotes tagged ‘Life Story’

“Well, I'm going to be a famous jazz musician. I've got it all figured out. I'll be unappreciated in my own country, but my gutsy blues stylings will electrify the French. I'll avoid the horrors of drug abuse, but I do plan to have several torrid love affairs, and I may or may not die young. I haven'…”

— George Meyer, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com

“Well, what happened was she was working hard at a New York job making dough but it made her blue. One day she was crying a lot, and so she decided to move to West Covina, California. Brand new pals, new career. It happens to be where Josh lives and that's exactly why she's here.”

— Elisabeth Kiernan Averick, Paula Proctor, Donna Lynne Champlin, imdb.com

“Every level of your life will demand a different you.”

— Mel Robbins, twitter.com

“But good ol'Uncle James, he had a heart. He talked her into it. It was Uncle James who told me about the night I was born. Driving Dorothy to the hospital, his raggedy old car didn't have any brakes. He had to ride around and around in circles until the car slowed down. Hey, that could be the story…”

— Etta James, amazon.com

“The little voice that's telling you the story of your life, has to let go of the old chapters to genuinely write new ones.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's…”

— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com

“You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I’ve always thought—put together all those random pieces form everyone whose ever known you, from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you’d probably see a fuller version of your life tha…”

— Deb Caletti, amazon.com

“My friends, I am the son of a Polish immigrant who came to this country speaking no English, and having no money. My father worked everyday of his life, and he never made a whole lot. My Mom and Dad, and brother and I grew up in a small three and a half room, rent controlled apartment in Brooklyn, N…”

— Bernie Sanders, washingtonpost.com