Live Quotes

"I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for"

Alice Walker, Author

"I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong"

Adam Jones, Musician

"Who wants to live forever?"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

"Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits"

Chanakya, Politician

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware"

Henry Miller, Writer

"Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

"A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"We tend to live up to our expectations"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only"

Henry Miller, Writer

"We live at the edge of the miraculous"

Henry Miller, Writer

"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance"

Ogden Nash, Poet

"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

"You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age"

Helena Christensen, Model

"I grew up in a good family with good parents, and I was able to dream big and have the support to live it out"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"The people that live in these districts, they don't want to watch it. They don't want to see their children die or killing other people. The only people that it is entertainment to are the people in the capital that have been brainwashed and are misguided and living in a completely unrealistic kind of world"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"I don't believe in fear – I live my life without regrets"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!"

Denis Leary, Actor

"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried"

Namie Amuro, Musician

"I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life"

John Milius, Director

"California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole"

Ron Chernow, Author

"Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live"

Remy de Gourmont, Novelist

"Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"I plan to live to be 120!"

Teri Garr, Actress

"I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?"

Jay-Z, Musician

"I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them"

Christopher Reeve, Actor

"The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion"

Talib Kweli, Musician

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