Living Quotes

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

Life is wasted on the living.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

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.