Frances McDormand Quotes

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Over time, you accumulate a lot of life material.

It's amazing what we've been through already in our lives no matter what our age. Think of what we've seen, people we've met, our relationships, experiences, and accomplishments. Reflection is a powerful tool.

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

I don't think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn't.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.