Live Quotes

"We live on the leash of our senses"

"When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over"

Keren Ann, Musician

"Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine"

George Dennison Prentice, Editor

"I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms"

Cale Yarborough, Celebrity

"We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such"

David Elliott, Celebrity

"When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going"

Cicely Tyson, Actress

"A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable"

Heather Donahue, Actress

"Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums"

Deana Carter, Musician

"Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order"

Ezra Taft Benson, Leader

"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy"

John F. Kerry, Politician

"Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery"

George Segal, Actor

"I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it"

Fantasia Barrino, Musician

"It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food"

Sandra Oh, Actress

"I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen"

Carson McCullers, Novelist

"I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around"

Beth Gibbons, Musician

"Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come"

Bernice Weissbourd

"I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah"

Hasil Adkins, Musician

"There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live"

Gedde Watanabe, Actor

"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

"The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it"

Adam Baldwin, Actor

"Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?"

Abraham Polonsky, Director

"It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle"

Albert Claude, Scientist

"I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't"

Martha Quinn, Celebrity

"We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war"

William J. Perry, Politician

"Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life"

Thomas Hearns, Athlete

"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

"I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness"

Rene Auberjonois, Actor

"Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it"

Terry Goodkind, Writer

"I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it"

Joshua Lederberg, Scientist

"Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father"

Josephus Daniels, Politician

"I just couldn't live without dogs"

Tara Reid, Actress

"A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does"

Jenna Elfman, Actress

"I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it"

Roger Clemens, Athlete

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