Live Quotes

"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication"

"It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor"

Jay-Z, Musician

"I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy"

Mary Pickford, Actress

"California is a great place to live if you're an orange"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is"

Don Bluth, Artist

"It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray"

Eddie Vedder, Musician

"I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being"

Black Elk, Leader

"I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"A good nation I will make live"

Black Elk, Leader

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage"

Jim Dale, Musician

"The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter"

James A. Garfield, President

"I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge"

David Cronenberg, Director

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos"

David Cronenberg, Director

"Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"Live interviews are more difficult to distort"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

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