Living Quotes

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.