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Living Quotes


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


"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."


"I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet."


"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."


"Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow."


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



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


"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."


"TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle."


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


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


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


"I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'"


"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."


"It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living."


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


"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."


"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."


"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product."
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