#livin

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#day #food #having #i #like

Tone has the living soul. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#soul #tone

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#ancient #ancient times #angels #being #body

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#fail #fortune #good #good fortune #happiness

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#go #happy #i #job #life

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living. ↗

— David Talbot

#even #important #least #living #maybe

Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products. ↗

— David Talbot

#kind #living #living room #magazines #most

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living. ↗

— Gay Talese

#describe #dialogue #i #living #move

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?' ↗

— Tertullian

#earning #harsh #i #live #living

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#fleeting #fright #heaven #life-and-living #love