Live Quotes

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

~ Lucille Ball

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

~ Jonathan Swift

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

~ Bertrand Russell

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

~ Rebecca Pidgeon

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

~ Brigitte Bardot

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

~ Brigitte Bardot

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

~ Will Self

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

~ Haruki Murakami

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

~ Walker Percy

We live in an age of mediocrity.

~ Lauren Bacall

We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.

~ Robert Harris

A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

~ Anita Shreve

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

~ Douglas Coupland

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

~ Dick Cavett

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

~ Morrissey

Of course, you see your body changing as you age, but it's more important to live than be too preoccupied with that sort of thing. I think ultimately what people care about in other people is the energy, the spirit.

~ Jacqueline Bisset

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

~ Don Marquis

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

~ John Osborne

I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.

~ Rachel Hurd-Wood

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

~ Charlie Chaplin

It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.

~ Edwin Markham

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

~ Ray Bradbury

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.

~ Christopher Nolan

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

~ Jean Paul

I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.

~ Sebastian Horsley

There is a shop close to where I live, outside which, on certain nights of the month - I've no idea if the transit of the moon determines precisely when - fans of designer skateboards queue from early evening in order - well in order, I presume - to be among the first to jump on a skateboard when the shop opens in the morning.

~ Howard Jacobson

It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

~ Barbara Demick

I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.'

~ Miranda July

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

~ Ken Robinson

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

~ Thomas Bangalter

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

~ Todd Solondz

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.

~ Kylie Jenner

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

~ Dwight L. Moody

When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of families who live there, you feel seen. Not just the good things you've done, the stuff you put on your resume. You know they've seen you in your dark times, when you've messed up - but they're still there.

~ Dean Ornish

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

~ John Forbes Nash

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

~ Jonathan Davis

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.

~ Scott Adams

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

~ Hans-Georg Gadamer