Live Quotes

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves"

Ed Smith

"So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops"

Ed Smith

"It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied"

Lucretius, Poet

"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you"

Paramahansa Yogananda, Leader

"In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul"

Edna O'Brien, Novelist

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously"

Harry Reasoner, Journalist

"We live in a rainbow of chaos"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body"

Marcel Proust, Author

"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life"

Marcel Proust, Author

"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"I live on good soup, not on fine words"

Moliere, Playwright

"Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together"

John Gay, Poet

"Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in"

Julie Christie, Actress

"If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions"

Hans Selye, Scientist

"Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

"I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing"

Piper Perabo, Actress

"I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

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