Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.

Lorrie Moore

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

Nicholas Stoller

And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what...to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.

P. D. James

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

Paul Rusesabagina

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

Markus Zusak

How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

Mark Twain

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

Harry Dean Stanton

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance

Francesca Lia Block

i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.

Neale Donald Walsch

Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you.

Jorge Luis Borges

Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?

The main reason we couldn't get any breathing room was because we couldn't get a defensive rebound. We could have stretched the 12-point lead.

Hermann Hesse

...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

Helene Cixous

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

Khaled Hosseini

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

Norman MacCaig

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

Mark Rothko

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

Ted Nugent

I'd like to have James Brown as my singer. I already have the best drummer, Tommy Clufetos. I've jammed a bunch with John Entwistle, and it was like a musical orgy. That guy is a living, breathing, grunting rhythm. For horns, let's go with the Stax/Volt guys, and I'm going to have Steve Cropper on standby just in case I want a rhythm guitarist.

Manny Pacquiao

Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.

Joan Didion

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

Leonard Orr

The completed energy cycle is a totally miraculous healing experience, and people healed themselves of all kinds of diseases-migraines, epilepsy, asthma, heart disease and just everything you can imagine disappeared in the tub when people were breathing with the snorkel. It was fantastic. Even diabetes in some cases. Diabetes is kind of a tough one. It takes a while.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing That is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks As it divides and rejoins behind you. The trees you planted in childhood have grown Too heavy. You cannot bring them along. Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

Nick Cave

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

Ray Charles

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

Sissela Bok

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

Rajneesh

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

Rajneesh

Walk, but make walking a meditation; walk knowingly Breathe, but let your breathing become a constant meditation; breathe knowingly. The breath going in: watch it. The breath going out: watch it. Eat, but eat with full awareness. Take a bite, chew it, but go on watching. Let the watcher be there in every moment, whatsoever you are doing.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick) No, but if you don’t lay off me, I’m going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)

Margaret Mead

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

Emmitt Smith

As long as you and I are still breathing, we have a purpose to serve

Henry Rollins

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.