Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

Boy George

Madonna is a living, breathing cash register.

Irish eyes are surely smiling - and we all will be breathing easier - with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. This is about as thorough a rebuke a court can give.

Antonio McDyess

He's more relaxed when you don't have someone breathing down your neck when you go out there. That's been the difference with Chauncey this year. He's just been going out there and playing. Flip is giving him the freedom to go out there and do what he wants, and he's been doing it.

Hugo Weaving

I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.

It gave us breathing room, but I wonder if we didn't let up a little.

Woody Harrelson

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

Recreational users should be worried. Breathing that dust is not good.

In a disaster situation, no company wants the state insurance department breathing down its neck.

Intel has some breathing room, but they need to get moving.

Jeff Abbott

I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be.

The doctor told me she would be on a ventilator for the rest of her life. My mother always told me that there were two things she didn't want. She didn't want to go to a nursing home and she didn't want to be on a breathing apparatus. I had them remove the ventilator two weeks ago. She was comfortable when she passed on.

The doctors said a lot of times when people get this injury they die on sight because they stop breathing. With all the pieces (of vertebrae) floating around in there, there still would have been a very good chance that if he hadn't stopped breathing he could have certainly been paralyzed.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

John Keats

All breathing human passion far above, / That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed,/ A burning forehead and a parching tongue.

Not that I ever relaxed, but it was nice to know he wasn't going to be breathing down my back side.

Johnny Damon

These pitchers that have to face our team, they don't have any breathing room. It's a very exciting team.

It'll be used for what citizens want: police and fire protection, all the things that cities do, ... It'll give us a little more breathing room.

They (Bishop O'Reilly) showed a lot of composure. Every time we would go up six points, they'd get it down to two (points). Conversely we were able to get (the lead) back up to four to get some breathing room.

Leonard Lauder

You can't separate a house from a family. It's a living, breathing home.

Nhat Hanh

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

Nhat Hanh

Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.

Nhat Hanh

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

Evan Parker

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

Paul Auster

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Keren Ann

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

Mother Teresa

Love should be as natural as living and breathing.

Pippa Middleton

From breathing techniques, muscle toning to overall flexibility and relaxation, my Pilates sessions have become something of a weekly necessity that keeps me fit, happy and energized.

Joseph Pilates

Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

Paolo Bacigalupi

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

John Berger

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

Frank Luntz

It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start the conversation, and how you end it, matters so much.