Living Quotes

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.