Living Quotes

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Living is abnormal.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Hey, we have obligations. We all work for a living now.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.