Being Quotes

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, "Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!" We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.