Best 2279 quotes in «alive quotes» category

Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.

[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden, of pregnancy. Hump speaks the erotics of being alive and being in love with being alive.

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

Art is alive because it is mortal.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. I’ve had the chance to do something that’s worth me being alive... The more I tell people, the less the nightmares haunt me.

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie.

Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.

Ask yourself every day: Is my love alive, true, generous, and open? How can I bring love into action?

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

As long as I'm alive, you'll never see the last of Lightning!

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . . Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths. Others pleaded for someone, anyone to step forward and catch them in their arms. No one did.

As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.

A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.

as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.

At least he's alive and well. I love him enough that I want that. I want him to have what's best for him." She sighed. "I just don't want to stick around to watch.