- Rain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live Quotes
Different ways of living, side by side.
This collection uses "live" as its thread but covers unusually varied ground — from reflections on how long humanity might last, to observations about wealth and poverty coexisting closely in Mexico. For quotes on love and connection, see Love quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the kind that could lead the millionaire lifestyle. I've got a truck, and I've got my bike. I've got a lovely Labrador and two kitty-cats. I live very modestly.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have dreams, but instead of having them written on a little piece of paper, I live a little bit of them every day.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're lucky we live in Canada. If we were living in the United States I'm sure it would be different - all the media attention that we would get in the private part of our lives.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mostly wrote 'Thursday's Child' to explore the idea of a wild child - a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a pencil in my bag. I put everything in pencil in my datebook. I live in L.A. - everyone's flaky.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the beauty of the Web. You can pretend to be anything you want. But people figure out pretty quick if you don't live up to it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!
- Every Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember hearing, back in the day, so-and-so got a deal, and bands are spending the money. Some of them live in the old days, where money is coming in and budgets are endless, but bands have to pay that back. Some bands just don't realize that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's tough for a child to deal with expectations that people have if they have a successful parent. A child often fails to cope with the same and constantly tries to find out possible ways to excel - just to live up to the name.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting married and having children is an evolution process, a live social experiment no one is documenting.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020