My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
“The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain. not shoes but a place to walk.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe… — John Green Copy Share Image
Just to be part of a process where you hit no professional speed bumps and you're just sort of going on and… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two.… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and… — Arthur C. McGill Copy Share Image
Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together,… — Sark Copy Share Image
I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really… — Natalie Grant Copy Share Image
I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The holy men and women, whose lives are told throughout this book, witness to the fact that the word of God is… — Stephen J. Binz Copy Share Image
The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to… — Betty MacDonald Copy Share Image
If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition ... If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Kipo kitu kinaendelea kufanyika katika siku zetu za furaha na katika siku zetu za huzuni kwa kila mmojawetu hapa duniani bila ya… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as… — Jim Valvano Copy Share Image
I think the closest thing I can come to defining what that vital thing is for me - is that there's a… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
The thing I find really special in performance is that there is this slightly mystical thing that takes over when you're responding… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
