Alive Quotes

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines. Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

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.

There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

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

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.