Living Quotes

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

I am always living very good moments.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.