Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not. – Tom Brady
Sometimes I feel that the people I’m writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you’re living so much in that world. – Zoe Kazan
I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things – flora, fauna, human and animal – that exist upon it. – Walter Cronkite
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. – Thomas Merton
Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and ‘zombie’ financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead. – Thomas Frank
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living. – Terry Pratchett
There’s something to be said for going right into people’s living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium – you’re right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television. – Sigourney Weaver
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we’re writing. – Sophie Kinsella
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me. – Tamara Ecclestone
I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I’m not a mean comedian, and I don’t think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it’s more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living. – T. J. Miller
Kidney donors don’t have to be close relatives of recipients, but they do need to have the right blood type. And kidneys from living donors tend to last many years longer than kidneys from deceased donors. – Virginia Postrel
I love wrestling, and I think there was something in me that needed to come out, and I was very fortunate to allow it to come out in the WWE and make a living doing that, and I enjoyed every second of that. – Shawn Michaels
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit. – Sarah Parish
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation. – William Boyd
I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free. – Sophia Amoruso
Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot. – Trevor Rabin
I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it’s maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else. – Sigourney Weaver
Every corny thing that’s said about living with nature – being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons – happens to be true. – Susan Orlean
I was very dramatic – very, like, ‘It’s never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I’m not already famous. I’m not going to get my record deal. I’m not going to be able to sing for a living.’ – Trisha Yearwood
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson. – Voltaire
When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room. – Spalding Gray
I know that I am one and I’ve made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I’m not actually doing it, I forget that I do it. – Wallace Shawn
Mankind’s feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life. – Tawakkol Karman
One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. – William Godwin
There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls. – Stanley Bing
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. – Steven Pinker
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved. – Wilfred Burchett