#living

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#around #art #artists #bohemian #could

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#continually #different #family #grew #half

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#asian countries #been #countries #had #history

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#attract #been #country #did #edge

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#believe #cheek #copy #got #just

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#babies #bringing #campaigns #except #i

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#day #death #dies #easily #every

One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place. ↗

— Sean Parker

#friends #get #hard #i #lead

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. ↗

— S. J. Perelman

#century #learning #living #most #will

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

#action #author #being #contemplation #good