Alive Quotes

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

I'm lucky to be alive.

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're 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.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.