Living Quotes
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Vincent Canby -
There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
Mercedes Lackey
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
Om Puri -
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.
Macaulay Culkin -
To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.
J. C. Chandor -
Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
Sally Mann -
You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
Iain Banks -
I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
J. C. Watts
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The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please.
Amerigo Vespucci -
You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
Pam Bondi -
We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
Umberto Eco -
This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.
Don Johnson -
I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
D. L. Hughley -
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
Kate Brown -
My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
Patrick J. Adams -
I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
Cameron Mackintosh -
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
Feist -
Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
Adam Cohen -
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.
Edgar Wright -
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
Daniel Breaker -
If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
Eckhart Tolle -
I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
Gary Sinise