Living Quotes

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.