Living Quotes

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

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.