Quotes About Livelihood

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

If I'm not on stage, I'm a pilot. I like flying planes; I have a little plane back in Nashville.

The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

I love to play gigs.

I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.

I take pride in the fact that a guy and a gal can come to my show, have a couple of beers and still go home with a little money in their pockets.

I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to make a living as a poet.

I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.

I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have classic songs.

I played so many clubs growing up, and back in that period, in the '60s, we'd play, like, four, five sets a night.

The most fun is to play clubs, because you actually get to see the people.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

Nobody knows the life of the working comic.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

I don't know how you make a living without a few personal compromises.

I think going on stage and putting on a concert for a night would be cool.