Living Quotes

People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.