Living Quotes

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

The world is a living image of God.

I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.