#live

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell. ↗

— William Shatner

#back #broke #circuit #divorced #early

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#before #die #even #health #out

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#care #dream #lives #old #own

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#alive #always #am #ask #brings

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#ask #asking #beings #breathing #flowing

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston. ↗

— Anne Rivers Siddons

#big city #charleston #charming #cities #city

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#amount #certain #creative #good #make

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#been #before #born #child #delivered

I just want to live in peace and quiet. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#just #live #peace #peace and quiet #quiet

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. ↗

— Richard Savage

#build #face #foolish #generous #lives