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Life Quotes - Page 578

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

"Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

Life is short and so is money.

Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.85, Grove Press

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.31, Courier Corporation

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

"Set course: Information management" by Miles Brignall, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

"In Interview, Bonds Says His Life Is a `Shambles'". articles.latimes.com. March 28, 2006.