Living Quotes

'I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.

In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.