The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

— Bruce Springsteen

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

— Adam Ant

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

— David Bowie

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

— Tariq Ramadan

I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

— Marianne Williamson

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

— Orson Scott Card

If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

— Bob Costas

Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the…

— David Krieger

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

— James Haven

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

— Maureen Duffy

I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

— Charles Dickens

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly…

— William Goldman