Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Creech

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

Natalie Merchant

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Peter Kreeft

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

Peter Gabriel

It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

Phoebe Snow

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

Phyllis McGinley

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Philip Pullman

You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

Kofi Annan

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Les Paul

No, working is what will keep you alive.

Chris Mihm

I've never seen anyone score 62 points. That third quarter was something else. He was scoring at will.

Orrin Hatch

I've never seen anyone do a better job. You have made a very, very strong presentation here.

Mike Richter

I've never met anyone who's a bigger fan of other people's success than him. I think that's a unique thing to his personality and that's an empowering thing, particularly to the young guys in the organization. He is interested in how people are doing and not just as a team, but personally and what contributions they are making and what he can do to make them better. It sounds unimportant, but it's a really subtle and special thing that comes from him.

Micky Mallette

I've never met anyone as special as Maggie Dixon, and I'm positive I'll never meet another person who can even come close to matching her love for life or her love for people. Even though we only knew her for a short period of time, we'll always carry her in our hearts.

Ben Street

I've probably been out there when it's been 15 below to 20 below. I don't think anyone will beat Mac on that one.

James Browning

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Wolfensohn

It would surprise me if one could win by getting all the kids out of school or starving the Palestinians. And I don't think anyone in the Quartet believes that to be the policy.

Cade Bernsen

It was worse than anyone would imagine. It's a nightmare. We need to do our part here at the U of A, and we're going to.

John Hogan

It was vulgar, offensive and insulting, not just to women and African-Americans but to anyone with a sense of common decency.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Gore Vidal

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Jack White

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Georgia May Jagger

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

Harry Reid

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

Harry S Truman

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.