Being Quotes

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

I don't know how to deal with being 80.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.

The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being.