Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

Sharon Creech

when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive

Sharon Creech

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

Natalie Merchant

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Natalie Goldberg

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

Laurell K. Hamilton

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die...

Langston Hughes

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

Leon Battista Alberti

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

Leon Battista Alberti

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Edward Hirsch

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.

Susan Grant

You're then urged to bring other people into the program saying you will be able to get free trips for yourself,

Noah Hathaway

You're starting out in the garage and see where it's going to take me. We'll bring them to the conventions and that'll help spread the word.

Gay Talese

You're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you. ... A condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs. It'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor.

Bob Golic

You wouldn't bring me in to do play-by-play if you were having a traditional booth,

Dean Maki

You would need a dramatic slowdown in domestic U.S. demand to bring down the U.S. trade deficit, and we think that is unlikely.

E. O. Wilson

You would have to bring that up. But now that you mention it ...

Barry Bonds

You wanted me to jump off the bridge; I finally have jumped. You wanted to bring me down; you've finally brought me and my family down. You've finally done it. So now go pick a different person.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

Manny DeMutis

It's where artisans will come together and create one-of-a-kind things. If you want one-of-a-kind things you've got to come to Phoenixville.

Katherine Jenkins

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

George H. W. Bush

The list is wide open, which should create some good speculation here in Washington,

Michael Gerber

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.

Besa Deda

A minority government may increase uncertainty and create some short-term volatility in the currency.

Jack Ablin

All of those things conspired to create a difficult environment for stocks.

Jeb Bush

All of the money is being plowed into infrastructure, ... If you haven't dealt with the fundamentals of what's a livable community, how do you create private-sector jobs. If you haven't focused on that, it's not sustainable.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Little Richard

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

Lee Krasner

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Lil Wayne

All about my riches/ My name should be Richard

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

LaToya Jackson

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

Theophilus London

Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever.

Lady Gaga

No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Daniel Petrocelli

Some people think it's a waste of time to go to trial here.

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Susan Murray

So we're telling people they should know what they're paying.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

E. O. Wilson

so that the will of the people can be upheld.

J. J. Johnson

Once you go out and start making plays, they don't say that anymore, ... You just have to play and show people what you can do.

Tony Robbins

The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit.

Tony Robbins

I think spirituality is a part of everything. It doesn't need to be separated out from everything else.

Tony Robbins

It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up.

Tony Robbins

Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person

Tony Blair

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

Sinead O'Connor

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Simone Weil

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

Simone Weil

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Simone Weil

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.