Living Quotes

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.