Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

My God, I pray better to you by breathing. I pray better to you by walking than by talking.

Thomas Carlyle

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

Stefan Zweig

He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them.

Thomas Harris

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

Victor Hugo

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

Vernon Howard

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

Sarah Dessen

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

Roger Ebert

The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.

Robin Morgan

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

Robert Pinsky

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

Sara Gruen

i'm afraid to breathe in case i break the spell

Walt Disney

Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.

Shai Agassi

I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.

Truman Capote

I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.

Vince Staples

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

Richard Stallman

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

Sylvester Stallone

When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing

Taylor Momsen

You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Stephenie Meyer

So, how come Jacob Black gets to give you a gift and I don't? Because I have nothing to give back to you. Bella, you give me everything just by breathing.

Vivien Leigh

You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

Willa Cather

If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.

Werner Herzog

I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

Samuel Beckett

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

Ryan Stiles

I am breathing. That's how I'm staying alive!

Walter Kirn

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

William Stafford

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?

William Stafford

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

William Jennings Bryan

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

Woody Harrelson

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

Sarah Addison Allen

Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.

Wendell Berry

I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.