Living On Quotes - Page 13

• When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Words You Speak, News

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• I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Different, Culture, World

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• Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

  Herbert Gold

  Memories, Careers, Nerves

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• I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

  Janet Jackson

  Trying, Income, Fixed

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• My oh my, think of what you're going to be like when you have your completely Heavenly body that can do all the things you can do now and more, including flying and floating and appearing and disappearing and walking through walls and locked doors and having marvelous supernatural miraculous powers of defense and judgement upon your enemies, protection for your friends, and to be able to help the poor humans that are still living on Earth during the Millennium to learn more about the Lord and love Him and serve Him even as you do.

  David Berg

  Wall, Thinking, Doors

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• If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.

  Joyce Meyer

  Tired, New Experiences, People

  Joyce Meyer (2006). “The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Nihilism

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, pp. 157-158, 1987.

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• I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average?

  Bobby Lee

  Average, Guy, Mountain

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.

  Jay Gould

  Believe, Men, Habit

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• Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.

  Seth Lloyd

  Running, People, Stories

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• I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Men, Laughing, World

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• I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Mind, Hope And Faith, Diets

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• The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Commitment, Moon, Organization

  "Buzz Aldrin Wants To Send People On A One-Way Trip To Mars". Interview with Rebecca Boyle, www.popsci.com. May 7, 2013.

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• In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.

  Beverly Pepper

  Suicide, Art, Thinking

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• Living on hope is like being hungry all the time.

  Faith Sullivan

  Hope, Hungry

  Faith Sullivan (1985). “Mrs. Demming and the Mythical Beast”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

  Anna Kavan

  Feelings, Confusing, Curious

  Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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• The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Mother, Earth, Want

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• I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

  Amy Schumer

  Thinking, Years, Working Really Hard

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Living in Manchester was like living on the moon... wherever that might be

  Johnny Giles

  Moon, Might, Manchester

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• It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything, If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.

  Nic Sheff

  Two, Appreciate, People

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• It's weird as actors because I mean we're fortunate in the group of people who have to spend time away from their families. There are men and women serving overseas who certainly have it a lot harder than we do, and there are jobs that take people away from the families, and that's a reality with some jobs that you have. One thing that's really difficult I find is the transition, because not only do you have to learn how to transition to living on your own again, there's a transition that happens learning how to live with somebody again.

  Chris Pratt

  Jobs, Mean, Reality

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Doctors, Political, Mind

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• A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Men, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.665, Simon and Schuster

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• The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.

  Matt Ridley

  Average, Years, Mexican

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• My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Gone, Agents

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.181, Taylor Trade Publishing

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