Alive Quotes

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Mia Michaels is to my mind one of the most interesting choreographers alive right now and my colleague and my friend from So You Think (You Can Dance).

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

I've been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it's rare.

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

If you hit a bad shot, just tell yourself it is great to be alive, relaxing and walking around on a beautiful golf course. The next shot will be better.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?

If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.

In my world, I am one of the luckiest humans alive.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

Keep the inspiration alive and reach for what you want

When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.

Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying.

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.

I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

A good sweat, with the blood punding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.

My love was alive, not because I was loved, but because I myself loved!