Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chandra Wilson

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

Bernhard Schlink

The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.

Edith Wharton

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

David Tudor

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

David Hockney

If you are not playful you are not alive.

Audre Lorde

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

Mark Kennedy

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

When you talk about the glass movement in this country it's actually fairly young and it's at a time when Chihuly and the other forefathers if you want to use that term are still alive and working.

Gunter Grass

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.

Michelle Shocked

There is no one like him alive today. He was a vast treasure trove and storehouse of musical and cultural knowledge and the richness that he has brought into all of our lives is immeasurable. He was a generous spirit, overlooking faults in order to see the common humanity that we all share and this is the quality that I will miss the most. For a man who has seen some of the most repulsive and ugly aspects of human nature to transform that knowledge into the beauty and grace that he does is an uplift and hope for citizens of the world.

Michelle Shocked

There is no one like him alive today, ... He was a vast treasure trove and storehouse of musical and cultural knowledge and the richness that he has brought into all of our lives is immeasurable. He was a generous spirit, overlooking faults in order to see the common humanity that we all share and this is the quality that I will miss the most. For a man who has seen some of the most repulsive and ugly aspects of human nature to transform that knowledge into the beauty and grace that he does is an uplift and hope for citizens of the world.

When we were letting the starters sit on the bench, to see what was going on on the floor ... that's just how the other part of the team feels when they're on the bench, wanting to get in. And after they saw all of that, they came alive to realize that they (would) rather be on the floor than on the bench.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

We remember with tears Tom Fox. We had longed for the day when all four men would be released together. Our gladness today is bittersweet by the fact that Tom is not alive to join his colleagues in the celebration.

Bryan Davis

No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.

Ron Howard

Words can't really describe the feelings that I had, to know that he had woken up. He was here; he was alive again. It was so amazing. If you didn't believe in God, that right there should definitely help your faith.

Jerry Sloan

We're still alive and that's the important thing.

Charles J. Givens

While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.

Beth Moore

If you are still alive, then God is NOT finished with you!

Victor Kiam

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I beli

Michael Chertoff

We're going to have to go house to house in this city. We're going to have to check every single place to find people who may be alive and in need of assistance,

Pat Brown

Very few serial killers keep you alive for very long. They abduct you and you're dead within an hour.

With the King Kong film opening this past weekend, Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie features the ending millions would love to see -- King Kong alive and back on Skull Island.

We feel that the laws should have been changed a long time ago, and our son would be alive today.

We're just happy to be still alive in March. I'll just keep it that simple.

To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long.

Charlie Wolf

The 'halo effect' is clearly alive and well.

Charlie Sheen

I'm still alive, which is pretty cool.

Evangeline Lilly

I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I've faced.

Joanna Lumley

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

We did exactly what we did yesterday, bunching our hits together to produce runs. Once again, our bats came alive in the clutch situations. Whenever you hit like we have during those times, you are going to win.

G. H. Hardy

We desperately need to let the world know we're alive and that we're open for business. We hope people see the devastation when they come, to better understand what we've been through.