Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. ~By Cyril Connolly ~
Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big. ~By Kate Greenaway ~
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. ~By Ellen Glasgow ~
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living. ~By Graham Norton ~
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. ~By Ray Bradbury ~
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. ~By Charles Ives ~
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted. ~By C. S. Forester ~
In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better. ~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~By Winston Churchill ~
We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it. ~By Nick Cassavetes ~
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves. ~By Francis Schaeffer ~
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light. ~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total. ~By Bobby Jindal ~
Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days). ~By Joe Tex ~
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. ~By Rupert Sheldrake ~
This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it. ~By Jon Bon Jovi ~
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. ~By Arthur Ashe ~
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean. ~By Syd Barrett ~
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?' ~By Natalie Portman ~
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. ~By Carl Jung ~
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~By Agatha Christie ~
There is no living with thee, nor without thee. ~By Marcus Valerius Martial ~
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places. ~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ~By Thomas Merton ~
At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying. ~By Norman Lamm ~
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. ~By Constance Baker Motley ~
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 ~
You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. ~By James Cagney ~
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. ~By Ernest Hemingway ~
I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting. ~By Dana Delany ~
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ~By Anais Nin ~
We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive. ~By Stephen Malkmus ~
No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. ~By Sholom Aleichem ~
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ~By Robert Kennedy ~
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. ~By David Ogilvy ~
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace. ~By King Hussein I ~
My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska. ~By Standing Bear ~
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 ~
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it. ~By Sparky Anderson ~
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. ~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision. ~By John Money ~
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. ~By Sherrod Brown ~
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. ~By Luther Burbank ~
Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products. ~By David Talbot ~
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting. ~By Martin Van Creveld ~
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. ~By Xenophon ~
I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that. ~By Ray Davies ~
It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else. ~By Mariska Hargitay ~
You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me. ~By Ving Rhames ~
There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music. ~By Bonnie Raitt ~
Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me. ~By Anna Nicole Smith ~
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me. ~By Ziggy Marley ~
Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul. ~By Bessie Head ~
I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine. ~By George J. Mitchell ~
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs. ~By Barbara Boxer ~
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. ~By Colin Firth ~
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. ~By Rem Koolhaas ~
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ~By Elihu Root ~
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are. ~By Martha Beck ~
I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling? ~By Tommy Bond ~
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. ~By James Broughton ~
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream. ~By Peter McWilliams ~
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best. ~By Carla Bley ~
I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay. ~By Portia de Rossi ~
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in. ~By Wim Wenders ~
Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia. ~By Noah Taylor ~
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. ~By Walter Benjamin ~
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. ~
To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around. ~By David Canary ~
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ~By Marilyn Hacker ~
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. ~By Jean Kerr ~
When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death. ~By Boris Becker ~
Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes. ~By Jim Barksdale ~
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. ~By Robert Henri ~
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. ~By Sogyal Rinpoche ~
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 can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. ~By Carl Sandburg ~
We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going. ~By Danny DeVito ~
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. ~By Xavier Becerra ~
The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room. ~By Jonathan Frid ~
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means. ~By Jackie Cooper ~
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. ~By Tiger Woods ~
I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it. ~By David Schwimmer ~
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past. ~By Franz Boas ~
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind. ~By James Martineau ~
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. ~By Genevieve Gorder ~
I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring. ~By Morgan Freeman ~
I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet. ~By Chita Rivera ~
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. ~By Cesare Pavese ~
'I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living. ~By Jason Newsted ~
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. ~By Douglas MacArthur ~
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. ~By Epicurus ~
His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day. ~By Mary Antin ~
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. ~By Voltaire ~
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living. ~By Buffalo Bill ~
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Cricket was my reason for living. ~By Harold Larwood ~
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life. ~By Edwin Arnold ~
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ~By Karl Jaspers ~
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ~By William Hazlitt ~
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