Quotes on Living

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Author: James Adams

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Author: John Adams

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Author: Aeschylus

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Author: Sholom Aleichem

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

Author: Mose Allison

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

Author: Gillian Anderson

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

Author: Francesca Annis

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Author: Michelangelo Antonioni

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Author: Aristotle

Writing that's not working for a living.

Author: Robert Asprin

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Author: W. Auden

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

Author: Frank Auerbach

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

Author: Nicholson Baker

I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.

Author: Rick Baker

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

Author: Drew Barrymore

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

Author: John Barrymore

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

Author: Cecilia Bartoli

Working is living to me.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

Author: Ulrich Beck

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

Author: Johnny Bench

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Author: Allan Bloom

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Author: Ronald Blythe

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

Author: Dirk Bogarde

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Author: Catherine Bowen

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

Author: David Bowie

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

Author: Bruce Boxleitner

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Author: Ray Bradbury

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Author: Emily Bronte

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Author: Mel Brooks

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

Author: David Brower

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

Author: James Brown

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

Author: Pat Brown

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

Author: Sherrod Brown

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

Author: Delta Burke

I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.

Author: Delta Burke

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Author: Leo Buscaglia

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

Author: Dean Cain

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Author: Italo Calvino

What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.

Author: Max Cannon

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

Author: Kitty Carlisle

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Author: Emily Carr

I am always living very good moments.

Author: Jose Carreras

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

Author: Jim Carrey

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Author: Willa Cather

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

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.

Author: Agatha Christie

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

Author: Eleanor Clift

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

Author: Joel Coen

There is a high cost for low living.

Author: Edwin Cole

The dead governs the living.

Author: Auguste Comte

When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.

Author: Alice Cooper

We're living proof that nice guys always finish last.

Author: Matthew Cooper

A house is a machine for living in.

Author: Le Corbusier

I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.

Author: Jim Cramer

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Author: Stanley Crouch

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

Author: Macaulay Culkin

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Author: e. cummings

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

Author: Imogen Cunningham

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

Author: Jessica Cutler

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

Author: Larry David

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

Author: Donald Davis

Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.

Author: Fred Davis

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

Author: Les Dawson

Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now.

Author: Rick Dees

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

Author: Grazia Deledda

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

Author: Nigel Dennis

Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.

Author: Martin Denny

Don't just create a reality, live it to the fullest, for authenticity is not a performance but a way of being.

Author: Audrey Hepburn

It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

Author: Jim Dine

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

Author: Milovan Djilas

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

Author: Shannen Doherty

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

Author: Lexa Doig

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Author: Mary Douglas

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

Author: Marcel Duchamp

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Author: Wayne Dyer

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Author: Abba Eban

Are you happy to be living back in Fairbanks again?

Author: William Egan

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Author: Ralph Emerson

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Author: Euripides

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Author: Stephen Evans

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Author: James Farmer, Jr.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

Author: Suzanne Farrell

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

Author: Barbara Feldon

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Author: Edna Ferber

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Author: W. Fields

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Author: Jean Fontaine

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

Author: Samuel Foote

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

Author: Edward Forbes

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Author: Henry Ford

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Author: C. Forester

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living.

Author: Jamie Foxx

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Author: Sebastian Franck

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

Author: Jonathan Frid

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

Author: Cornelia Funke

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

Author: Stephen Gardiner

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

Author: Peter Garrett

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

Author: Jose Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Author: Jose Gasset

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Author: Jose Gasset

While living I want to live well.

Author: Geronimo

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new.

Author: Robin Gibb

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

Author: Philip Gibbs

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.

Author: Philip Glass

For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.

Author: Julie Gold

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Author: Fred Gosman

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

Author: Winston Graham

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.

Author: Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Author: Asa Gray

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

Author: Eva Green

Zippy is living in the moment.

Author: Bill Griffith

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.

Author: Gregory Harrison

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

Author: Debbie Harry

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.

Author: Marilu Henner

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Author: Audrey Hepburn

Living well is the best revenge.

Author: George Herbert

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

Author: Paris Hilton

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

Author: Tobe Hooper

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Author: Horace

Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

Author: Sam Houston

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

Author: Alan Hovhaness

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

Author: Karen Hughes

Living is abnormal.

Author: Eugene Ionesco

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

Author: Billy Joel

There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.

Author: Jeffrey Jones

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Author: Carl Jung

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

Author: Wassily Kandinsky

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

Author: Christine Keeler

It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space.

Author: Mark Kelly

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Author: Jackie Kennedy

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

Author: John Kennedy

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Author: Soren Kierkegaard

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Author: Charles Kingsley

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.

Author: Yves Klein

This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

Author: Aaron Klug

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

Author: Mort Kondracke

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

Author: Alexis Korner

I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.

Author: Diane Kruger

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

Author: John Kufuor

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Author: Lactantius

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

Author: Steve Lacy

And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.

Author: Martin Landau

Comrades - We are living in momentous times.

Author: James Larkin

Real living is living for others.

Author: Bruce Lee

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Author: Bruce Lee

I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.

Author: Daniel Libeskind

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Author: Bai Ling