#livin

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#concert #concert pianist #did #earn #fairly

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#assailed #environment #even #fantastic #feeling

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#doing #everyday #ideals #like #living

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#always #expects #fellow #fellow men #his

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ↗

— Raymond Hull

#causes #happy #living #marriages #together

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. ↗

— John Hume

#class #controlled #difficult #discriminatory #districts

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#bones #dead #habit #living #old

It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her. ↗

— Laura Innes

#area #character #her #i #i think

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#abolish #absolute #been #condition #death

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#away #clay #defy #destiny #free