Quotes of: Making-a-living Keyword

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

Richard MacDonald

Death is like giving birth. Birth can be painful. Sometimes women die from giving birth. However, when the baby is born, all that pain (that was endured) vanishes in an instant. Love for that tiny baby makes one forget the pain, the fear. And as I’...

Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin

It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of themselves, breaking down barriers, and making them share, by identifying with the characters of the illusion, a life that is ri...

The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables"

Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanity's relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things we've learned. They fail to encompass the big take-home message, so far, of a century and a half of biology and ecology: li...

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world any more. Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely...

Jurassic Park

Harry Cooper: Look! You two can do whatever you like! I'm going back down to the cellar, and you'd better decide! 'Cause I'm gonna board up that door, and I'm not going to unlock it again no matter what happens! Tom: Now wait a minute, Mr. Cooper. Ha...

Night of the Living Dead

PRAISE FOR 'THE JOURNEY HOME' Many saints are known and praised by all. We pray to them in litanies and celebrate their feast days. But the vast majority of holy men and women live heroic lives quietly before God. Loyal to family, lovers of God, serv...

Stephen K. Ray

The old adage that people only want what they can’t have or what they can’t tame— is totally primitive. A being of higher origins will know instinctively that life on earth is a series of chances, moments and concepts. That’s really all that ...

C. JoyBell C.

Therapy can’t erase scars, it only makes it easier to live with them. — Duke

Fix Up

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

Jacob Epstein

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

Inkspell

So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.

Living with the Dead

Truth makes you rise to new heights, no matter where you are.

Live Your Truth

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Samuel Butler

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Stephen Sondheim

Everybody says life is hard. I'm surprised nobody makes effort to not create any lives.

Orlyze Simons

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Polly Toynbee

Something to remember... You only get one chance to grow and live, so make it Beautiful!

Sierra Lawrimore

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

Shania Twain

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Sting

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

Sofia Vergara