Living Quotes

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Tone has the living soul.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

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.