Living Quotes

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. 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.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.