Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson
Related Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just w... JACKIE ROBINSON Life may not be a spectator sport but many spend time watching it go by. VIKRANT PARSAI If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it. C. K. WILLIAMS Giving your life is the ultimate sacrifice, and if they were able to do it for Jackie Robinson, they... FERNANDO MATEO Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. CHUCK PALAHNIUK All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time. DAVID WALLIAMS As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty ins... CHRISTOPHER MOORE If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away. BEAU MIRCHOFF I don't want to party my life away. If you aren't living for something, you are wasting your life. ELIZABETH KAISER In broad terms; success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something ... RASHEED OGUNLARU I'm just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We're false i... GRANT MORRISON what matter most ? _ you . only you.everyday every event would pass by through your vein LITYMUNSHI Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching. ALAN BENNETT If you are not making the quality of your life better, then you are wasting your time. DR. ISLAM GOUDA Wasting and losing time is equivalent to wasting and losing your life SUNDAY ADELAJA Wasting is part of her life. She wasted her life, wasted my son's life and would keep on wasting liv... JOSEPH WILLIAMS If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will becom... WILL SMITH Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ... SAM RAYBURN Jim Crow was king . . . and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in... LOU BROCK Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incred... DAISY RIDLEY If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. MORRIS WEST I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another... WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another ... WILLIAM HAZLITT It's not just leaving my family and friends. It's the thought of leaving what has been your whole li... AERIAL GREGSTON Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thou... ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how... LYNN DAVIES When everything goes wrong in your life then something new is going to happen. KOWSALAPATHY Repertory theater allows you to spend your whole life perfecting yourself. ALEKSANDR KALYAGIN The most irrelevant thing in your life is the opinion of your haters. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home. WILLIAM HAZLITT If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely was... ALAN W. WATTS He told those kids if your sports life, your social life, and your book life -- if all those three t... JIMMY WILLIAMS If you die homeless, your death goes unnoticed, just like your life. This is a way for us to notice. MICHAEL STOOPS If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. MORRIS WEST I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spe... WILLIAM HAZLITT And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your a... BILLY GARDELL This is such a beautiful country, it would be a shame to spend your whole life working and not be ab... EDGAR HILTON If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whol... BO BENNETT Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life. AL JOURGENSEN Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna? ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too. ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo... ABOUT LIFE sometimes you feel blessed but other times you feel stressed LIFE REACTIONS If everyone falls down no one will be there to pick us up, therefore don't try to pull others down w... LIFE REACTIONS Don't just stress, but so something about it LIFE REACTIONS Humans are selfish, so don't expect anything from them. Provide yourself with everything LIFE REACTIONS Love is like a hole, the more you love someone the deeper it gets LIFE REACTIONS Always be yourself, and never a reflection of others LIFE REACTIONS One day you will find "the one" who deserves all what you want to give. The one who appreciates your... ROSE'S LIFE If it doesn't open, it's not your door LIFE ADVANCER I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers. EARL WEAVER Going to the bathroom is not a spectator sport. DOUG WILSON And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for yo... DIANA GABALDON Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there. JACK L. CHALKER who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. J.D. SALINGER If your financial life is not in order, every other area of your life will be in disorder. BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your ... MIEP GIES For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first understand that time is life and life is tim... SUNDAY ADELAJA You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like yo... ANNIE LENNOX When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of. FRANCESCO TOTTI Life is lived to accomplish a mission! Life must be lived with a vision! Life is moved by the heart ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In my opinion, the most wonderful thing you can do in your life is to forgive someone whom you can�... VIKRANT PARSAI There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way. UNKNOWN There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who y... JOHN BRADSHAW I think the big thing is good communication. You need to communicate your whole life and not just ea... ELAINE ROTH Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. STEPHEN KING You can spend your whole life traveling around the world searching for the Garden of Eden, or you ca... KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write... GAIL COLLINS If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing? BRIAN TRACY Live your life striving to complete the journey to your vision; don't spend your life dreaming about... WAYNE CHIRISA Live your life striving to complete the journey to your vision; don't spend your life dreaming of a ... WAYNE CHIRISA Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life. KEVIN WHATELY The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. PETER SHAFFER Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. JUDITH MALINA Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life. WARREN MOON It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hop... SOPHIE KINSELLA Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once y... KAJOL What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only ... DAMON ALBARN You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you. DAVID NICHOLLS You have one go at life. One chance to follow your dreams. Don't waste it on planning your life, spe... EMILY HUFFSTETLER You're entitled to your opinion. I frankly don't really care what you have to say. It has very littl... SEAN HANNITY How life goes in bad directions when your heart is asleep. ROBERT GOOLRICK Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes... ARIE PENCOVICI It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts! ADLAI STEVENSON It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ADLAI STEVENSON It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ADLAI E. STEVENSON It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts ADLAI E. STEVENSON You can't spend your whole life teaching people about public service without finally thinking that y... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF Just remember, ... my grandstand's bigger than your grandstand. BOBBY ALLISON if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances. JULIA SOREL
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JACKIE KENNEDY Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a hor... JACKIE KENNEDY I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives. JACKIE KENNEDY There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. JACKIE KENNEDY You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. JACKIE KENNEDY Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for ... JACKIE KENNEDY I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investin... JACKIE KENNEDY Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living al... JACKIE KENNEDY I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady. JACKIE KENNEDY There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. JACKIE KENNEDY The only routine with me is no routine at all. 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JACKIE GLEASON If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you hav... JACKIE GLEASON How sweet it is! JACKIE GLEASON I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classica... JACKIE EVANCHO I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent&... JACKIE EVANCHO I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I wa... JACKIE EVANCHO Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking... JACKIE EVANCHO Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs. JACKIE EVANCHO I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love... JACKIE EVANCHO I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding. JACKIE EVANCHO When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your a... JACKIE EVANCHO It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment. JACKIE EVANCHO The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I... JACKIE EVANCHO Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really ex... JACKIE EVANCHO I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative... JACKIE EVANCHO I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too. JACKIE EVANCHO I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, t... JACKIE EVANCHO I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give u... JACKIE EVANCHO I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm usin... JACKIE EVANCHO I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now ... JACKIE EVANCHO It's always exciting to see different cities I love, and go on tour buses. It's so much fun ... JACKIE EVANCHO I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much. JACKIE EVANCHO Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story. JACKIE EVANCHO I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myse... JACKIE EVANCHO I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I k... JACKIE EVANCHO I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it. JACKIE EVANCHO And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time. JACKIE DESHANNON I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it. JACKIE DESHANNON I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percu... JACKIE DESHANNON I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful p... JACKIE DESHANNON I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as be... JACKIE DESHANNON I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artis... JACKIE DESHANNON I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am. JACKIE DESHANNON I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and a... JACKIE DESHANNON Ignorance is kind of bliss. JACKIE DESHANNON No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - ... JACKIE DESHANNON The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. JACKIE DESHANNON There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impo... JACKIE DESHANNON We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about wha... JACKIE DESHANNON Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me,... JACKIE DESHANNON When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the r... JACKIE DESHANNON When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because o... JACKIE DESHANNON And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis wa... JACKIE DESHANNON I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, wi... JACKIE DESHANNON There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springstee... JACKIE DESHANNON Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some... JACKIE DESHANNON And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long ... JACKIE DESHANNON I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ... JACKIE DESHANNON So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next c... JACKIE COOPER I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like ... JACKIE COOPER The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personalit... JACKIE COOPER In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means. JACKIE COOPER So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the pe... JACKIE COOPER I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of me... JACKIE COOPER But I want to do good work, after this series. JACKIE COOPER But the working I would always want to do. JACKIE COOPER A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it. JACKIE COOPER I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock a... JACKIE COOPER Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and the... JACKIE COOPER From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own. JACKIE COOPER I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them... JACKIE COOPER So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do. JACKIE COOPER So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? JACKIE COOPER There was only so much television you could do. JACKIE COOPER To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended. 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