Quotes About Living

Music was going to be my thing. Was I going to make a living at it? That was kind of a joke. It was just my passion, and if I was broke doing my passion, so be it.

The fans want to see a conclusive finish. It's quite a brutal, barbaric sport and the people who watch it want to see someone out. That's what I do for a living.

I don't have a bucket list.

One thing I've learnt is not to have a bucket list.

My only success is that I am alive.

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy. And when your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.

In Paris, I was really singing for the sake of living. But eventually people said, 'Keep going; you've got a great voice,' and I started having confidence in my voice all of a sudden. That's when I started creating my own music.

When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it's an extra reminder that you don't want to live life with any regrets.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.

I choose to live in the present because when you suffer from chronic illness, you don't have a choice. It's day by day, one foot in front of the other. When there is a good day, you soak up that moment. Those 'good selfie' moments are captured because they're a gift.

Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

I would not support any scheme which suggested that people should be taxed for living in their own home.

We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.

After the first Olive Farm book was published, in 2001 I got a three-book deal with Orion for a large sum of money. Obviously it did not come all at once, but it made the difference to living here on a shoestring to being able to turn the whole place around.

I grew up in San Diego, California, and I spent a lot of time in the summer basically living in a bathing suit, you know, get in the car and drive straight to the beach and spend the entire day in that thing, so I always approached bathing suits thinking that they are very much like outfits.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.