Famous Quotes & Sayings

The girls are excited (about the first win). We're breathing a little easier.

The diagnosis is a significant stroke. The prime minister has been anesthetized and is on a breathing device.

This is a health issue. I still think breathing comes before profits. These (liquor license holders) are not looking at the community needs or the needs of their employees. They're just looking at their pocketbooks.

John Keats

All breathing human passion far above, / That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed,/ A burning forehead and a parching tongue.

Emmitt Smith

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

Jon Hamm

The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

John Gibbons

We scored some runs to give him a little breathing room. He pitched good. He got out of some big jams.

Philip Kerr

I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.

It'll be used for what citizens want: police and fire protection, all the things that cities do, ... It'll give us a little more breathing room.

Rajneesh

I don't have any choice any more. I am in a choiceless awareness. I don't have to be aware. I am simply aware. Now it is just like my heartbeat or like my breathing. Even if I try not to be aware, it is not possible; the very effort will make me more aware. Awareness is not a quality, a characteristic; it is your whole being. When you become aware, there is no choice left to be otherwise.

Robert Herjavec

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

Tablo

Crying is easy, like breathing- the more you hold it in, the more you let out.

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.

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...

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.

Robert Barry

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

Rob Bell

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

Rob Bell

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.