Live Quotes

"I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise"

Alice Walker, Author

"I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it"

Don Bluth, Artist

"A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone"

Frederic Bastiat, Economist

"In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"The king must die so that the country can live"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

"My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by"

Ryan Sypek, Actor

"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else"

Frederic Bastiat, Economist

"I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid"

Larry Dixon

"I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well"

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present"

Petra Nemcova, Model

"I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There's many artists who would not do a live show because they know they can't"

Jamelia, Musician

"The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life"

Judith Light, Actress

"Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"I live to laugh, and I laugh to live"

Milton Berle, Comedian

"I think doing more live stuff's made us feel a certain way about that particular point. I quite like small clubs. I don't really like playing in big clubs, and I think I'm really into the idea of a few people being together"

Sean Booth, Musician

"We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

"The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it"

John Irving, Novelist

"The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live"

Luis Miguel, Musician

"I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live"

Gianni Versace, Designer

"I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know"

Bob Odenkirk, Actor

"We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself"

Amos Oz, Writer

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