- Nov 07, 2020
Living Quotes
On making a life, and making a living.
This set of living quotes includes a sharply critical political opinion, presented here strictly as the quote's own stated view about the administration it describes, alongside a separate observation about how thin the line has become between personal and professional life. Related reflections continue in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was living in a suburban town north of London, dutifully practicing my Mozart sonatas. And the milkman who delivered the milk in the mornings was kind of milkman by day, composer-artist by night.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really like objects of production and consumption. We're on our screens all the time; we're kind of being sold at all the time.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
When blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the trained clairvoyant as it courses through the living body, blood is found to be a gas, a spiritual essence.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, as a seller of real estate and star of reality TV, Donald Trump made a living wooing customers and viewers. His selling skills were good enough that he even convinced voters to elect him as president in spite of his near-total lack of qualifications.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
It motivates me, being a parakeet and living for so many years in Barcelona. Going back to the city is always something nice, and playing against Barca, too.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just dreamed about living in Paris and being French. I always loved the visual arts, film and theatre, and I hoped to be involved in creating beautiful products and images.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020