Alive Quotes - Page 55

We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

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

Usually, if you're buried alive, that's gonna be the last time that happens, isn't it?

Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

I'm not saying I hate Jews, I'm just saying that I think they shouldn't be alive any more.

NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't... you can't want yourself to die!! So... live.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

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

Only think of my being alive with a reputation!

If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianity is dead.

'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of no unknown or uncertain cause, but only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.

Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.

You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.

In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.

for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.