Living Quotes

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.