Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.
~By Huey Lewis ~
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
~By Jose Marti ~
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
~By Anne McCaffrey ~
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
~By Aimee Mann ~
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
I find it hard living in a day and age where people are unwilling to accept who they really are.
~By Matthew Lotti ~
I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.
~By George Duke ~
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Zippy is living in the moment.
~By Bill Griffith ~
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
~By James Gates Percival ~
I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time.
~By Edith Wilson ~
I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
~By Alfred Newman ~
My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
~By Sally Field ~
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.
~By Don Johnson ~
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
~By Samuel Gompers ~
I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
~By Peter Wright ~
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
~By Mike Rounds ~
You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
~By Voltaire ~
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
~By Martha Beck ~
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
~By Tecumseh ~
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.
~By Ron Kind ~
Cricket was my reason for living.
~By Harold Larwood ~
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.
~By Kate Moss ~
We are living longer, and we need to live better.
~By Donna Shalala ~
It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.
~By Mark Udall ~
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
~By Julio Cortazar ~
Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.
~By Trevor Rabin ~
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
~By John Pomfret ~
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
~By Kate Bush ~
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?
~By Kurt Masur ~
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.
~By Charlize Theron ~
There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!
~By Susan Powter ~
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
~By Robert Casey ~
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
~By Bruce Barton ~
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
~By Major Taylor ~
I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
~By Wesley Clark ~
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
~By Thomas V. Smith ~
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
~By Mother Jones ~
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
~By J. G. Holland ~
Living well is the best revenge.
~By George Herbert ~
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
~By e. e. cummings ~
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!
~By Sandy Duncan ~
We will not allow anyone to perform any terrorist acts inside or from Afghanistan against anyone. We are a free country where Osama is living as a guest. This is the reality and it is up to the world to accept it.
~By Mohammad Rabbani ~
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
~By Bob Edwards ~
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.
~By Laurie Lee ~
Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
~By Cathy McMorris ~
I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
~By Christian Bale ~
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
~By Ethel Waters ~
I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
~By Major Taylor ~
For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.
~By Julie Gold ~
One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
~By Max Frisch ~
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~By James Truslow Adams ~
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
~By Penelope Leach ~
His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.
~By John Lahr ~
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
~By Olin Miller ~
Living in the projects helped me with this role.
~By Joe Pantoliano ~
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
~By James Douglas ~
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
~By Casey Stengel ~
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The growth of Stewart Airport creates new jobs for area residents, brings new business and new travelers to the region, and brings new convenient travel options to those of us living in the Hudson Valley.
~By Sue Kelly ~
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
~By Edvard Munch ~
At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.
~By Kato Kaelin ~
I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.
~By Alfred Molina ~
The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.
~By Daniel Petrie ~
Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.
~By Helen Reddy ~
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
~By Joan Miro ~
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
~By Rudolf Steiner ~
I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.
~By Megan Gallagher ~
To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.
~By Aurelius Clemens Prudentius ~
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
~By Rosemary Clooney ~
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
~By Hannah More ~
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