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Lifestyle Quotes


"Your morning routine generates a 10x return for good or for bad. Make it good."


"I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions."


"Excuse me?' I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. 'Coffee? I thought we came here for pie.' 'I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here.' I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked."



"Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!"


"Playing a fool is the best paid role."


"My selfie my life!"


"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."



"I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart."


"After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City."


"She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put over her and without further difficulties resolved the problem of dress, without taking away the feeling of being naked, which according to her lights was the only decent way to be when at home."


"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."


"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."


"It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things."



"He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder."


"The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters."


"My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on."


"After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance."


"Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes."


"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."


"I don't need a personal trainer, I need someone to stalk me and threaten to kick my ass when I eat and drink stuff I'm not supposed to!"


"We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do."


"Lots of ways to have your steak "Well done, medium rare, rare, bloody or fetch me a club"."



"I had never been a dresser. My shirts were all faded and shrunken, 5 or 6 years old, threadbare. My pants the same. I hated department stores, I hated the clerks, they acted so superior, they seemed to know the secret of life, they had a confidence I didn't possess. My shoes were always broken down and old, I disliked shoe stores too. I never purchased anything until it was completely unusable, and that included automobiles. It wasn't a matter of thrift, I just couldn't bear to be a buyer needing a seller, seller being so handsome and aloof and superior. Besides, it all took time, time when you could just be laying around and drinking."


"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."



"Cling, therefore, to this sound and wholesome plan of life; indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. ... Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather. It makes no difference whether it is built of turf or variegated marble imported from another country: what you have to understand is that thatch makes a person just as good a roof as gold."


"She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there."


"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."


"She's a gypsy girl living in a materialistic world, Unattached to most things but in love with life itself."


"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."


"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."



"I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out."


"Live with style and passion, don't seek the permission of others."


"So, while we're sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn't someone tell me the plan?"


"People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book."


"Routines and daily habits aren't restrictive. They provide structure, direction, and opportunities for spontaneity."



"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."


"A life of passion is not an act or a habit but a lifestyle."


"I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day."



"Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth."
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