Alive Quotes

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.