Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
— Zainab Salbi
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
— Zadie Smith
When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
I’m a nice guy. And I like to enjoy life, and be around people I love.
— Zack Steffen
I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
— Zachery Ty Bryan
It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
— Zachary Quinto
I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
— Zachary Levi
This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.
— Zach Woods
I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
— Zach LaVine
Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.
— Zach Johnson
I love football, but I also want to give back. I want to take care of kids and single moms, so it's not only about playing football. I want my life to matter in that way.
— Zach Ertz
I pride myself on being able to create mismatches. That's what I've done my whole life.
In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
— Zach Braff
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
— Zach Anner
There's plenty of times in my life I've coached against my brother, coached against people I've coached with.
— Zac Taylor
I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
— Zaha Hadid
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
Everyone likes to have fun. But when I look back on my life, I'm not going to say, 'Oh, we're the crazy party animals.' I'll look back and say, 'Wow, we did take this seriously.' We had fun while we were out doing it, but it's just the only thing you read about: 'They're a bunch of party animals.' To be honest, that's not true.
— Zacky Vengeance
It’s an amazing life, don’t get me wrong. But being a professional athlete, is… is not as glamorous as everybody sets it out to be.
I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
— Zachary Taylor
I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
— Zach Wamp
I played point guard my whole life.
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
— Zach Galifianakis
My relationship with Jesus has changed my life and, really, the foundation of who my wife and I are as people.
When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
It's all ball, all the time. You have no excuse to not watch anything you've ever wanted to study in your life, especially in the offseason.
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Once you can get a fan to listen to an album a handful of times and really have a lot of substance for them to grasp, then you're looking at having a fan that really appreciates what you do for life and can appreciate coming to see it live.
I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
— Zack Greinke
It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
If you don't allow your aggression or negative feelings to be expressed in your waking life, then it migrates into your subconscious.
One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
I was very fortunate to have several mentors in my life that believed in my ability on the football field. It was their support that made me believe that I could do it, too.
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't affect the conversations I have in my head about life, and worries and fears and insecurities.
I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
You dream about being in the shotgun and letting your receivers go to work, and making plays with no time left. That's definitely been a dream of mine my whole life.
