#livin

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#biological #chief #city #convert #creativity

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#basically #fortune #good #good fortune #had

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries. ↗

— Pola Negri

#bite #comparison #cost #high #high cost

People living deeply have no fear of death. ↗

— Anais Nin

#death #deeply #fear #living #no fear

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#american revolution #claim #concerned #condition #economic

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#fear #franciscans #live #living #mean

'I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#grow up #i #kid #live #living

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ↗

— Anais Nin

#action #actions #again #dream #form

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. ↗

— Anais Nin

#live #living #much #never #out