Living Quotes

My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

~ Tim Cahill

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

~ Charles Lindbergh

I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.

~ Ashley Tisdale

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

~ Dane Cook

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

~ Omar N. Bradley

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

~ Isaac Asimov

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

~ James A. Baldwin

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

~ Luther Burbank

My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.

~ Alanis Morissette

Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.

~ Luke Evans

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

~ T. S. Eliot

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

~ Hidetoshi Nakata

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

~ Samina Baig

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

~ Lucretius

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

~ Buzz Aldrin

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

~ Ellen Stofan

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.

~ Mark Kelly

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

~ Nicholas Negroponte

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

~ Alan Perlis

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

~ Arvind Gupta

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

~ Winston Churchill

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

~ Andy Rooney

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

~ Bill Cosby

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

~ Thomas S. Monson

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

~ Audre Lorde

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

~ Margaret Fuller

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

~ Tyra Banks

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.

~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'

~ Trisha Yearwood

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

~ Dee Dee Myers

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

~ Claude Monet

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

~ Henri Poincaré

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

~ Annie Leibovitz

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

~ Albert Einstein

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

~ Emily Post

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

~ George Lucas

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

~ Donald Knuth