Quotes About Survival

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving.

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.

I appear to have had more comebacks than Status Quo.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

Unless you stay focused on innovation, you can be disintermediated.

Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.

They said if I stayed in the orphanage for another month or so, I basically would not have been able to be alive.

After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We're lucky enough to live on a bit of high ground, so we weren't flooded... but it was intense. Since there was no light, water, or electricity, I spent a lot of time playing acoustic guitar in the evenings.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

I was six when the war started. It was terrible. My house was destroyed, so we went to live with my grandparents. The whole family was there, maybe 15 people all staying in an apartment about 35m square. It was very hard.

I am just working on staying alive.

Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.

The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know of any pilots that don't have a self-interest in staying alive.

It's the most important thing, staying in the Premier League.

Once a company develops out of its consumer base, you will often see a well-funded multinational company come in and take over that space. The black-owned company either stays a niche company or just disappears. This is something we don't want to happen.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.