Live Quotes

"Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"Those who live, live off the dead"

Antonin Artaud, Dramatist

"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without"

James C. Dobson, Psychologist

"Come live in my heart, and pay no rent"

Samuel Lover, Artist

"When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere"

Saint Ambrose, Saint

"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola"

McLean Stevenson, Actor

"We live in very, very, very dangerous times"

Craig Shirley, Author

"A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long"

Thomas Middleton, Poet

"Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better"

Nancy Johnson, Politician

"Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another"

Yahya Jammeh, Politician

"What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money"

George Leigh Mallory, Celebrity

"People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance"

Frances Burney

"She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer"

Gail Parent

"You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan"

Burton Cummings, Musician

"I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants"

Florence Henderson, Actress

"I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment"

Dorothy Stang, Clergyman

"What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone"

Frederick Tennyson, Poet

"If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live"

Jessye Norman, Musician

"Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families"

Carolyn McCarthy, Politician

"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show"

Tom Chapin, Musician

"Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life"

Robert Southey, Poet

"The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture"

Robert McAfee Brown, Theologian

"We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks"

Isabel Yosito, Artist

"I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy"

Graham Norton, Celebrity

"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things"

Jeremy Spencer, Musician

"I don't paint to live, I live to paint"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

"Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet"

Walter Reisch, Scientist

"Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family"

Thomas Vilsack, Politician

"What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other"

Thomas Starr King, Clergyman

"I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to live"

Thomas Dooley, Athlete

"Live with all of your senses"

Sue Townsend, Novelist

"I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while"

Rose McGowan, Actress

"Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people"

Andre Norton, Writer

"Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long"

Paul Rodriguez, Comedian

"I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children"

Melinda Gates, Clergyman

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