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Quotes About Surviving

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
~ Mickey Spillane
I'm surviving and developing as a writer. I don't know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I've gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I'll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can.
~ Daniel Woodrell
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
~ Judd Apatow
In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with her 'Fear of Flying.'
~ Alistair Horne
PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.
~ Markus Persson
Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.
~ Julian Baggini
I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.
~ Craig Venter
I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
~ Russell Means
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
~ Josh Silver
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
~ Oliver Joseph Lodge
I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.
~ Marcia Wallace
It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
~ Theodore Bikel
I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'
~ Isaac Hanson
Stardom can be obtained only after surviving and giving good films for almost 20 years.
~ Varun Dhawan
You didn't have to know anything about show business to appreciate the characters' humor, because at its heart, 'Party Down' was about following dreams, dealing with rejection, and surviving all the lame jobs we've all had to work just to get by in the meantime.
~ Emily V. Gordon
I do think I had a big advantage for the first four years I was in broadcasting, that no one really saw me. One of the big disadvantages superstar players have is they go right to the 'A' game, or the studio. I got the obscurity, making mistakes, learning from them and surviving them.
~ Cris Collinsworth
I think that being a Wildling is essentially about surviving the cold, and in that department, the extras on our shoot excelled and needed no help from us.
~ Miguel Sapochnik
When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.
~ Andris Nelsons
'Surviving Jack' was actually a really nice show that was very well-run creatively.
~ Kevin Reilly
Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.
~ Nadya Suleman
The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
~ Claire Cameron
Jack' came from... I had the same dream since I was 10, about the world being destroyed and run by mutants. I'd find a samurai sword, pick up the girl I had a crush on, and we'd go through the land, surviving. That was the initial spark to 'Samurai Jack.'
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
Thirteen broken bones and a punctured lung. You must have been put on this earth for a reason, little girl, to have survived.
~ Rebecca Stead
So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.
~ Rick Riordan