Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
The fear that things may change tomorrow... Somebody may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that. — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria… — Petria Thomas 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
All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
As much as people were asking me and everybody else on the show constantly if Jon Snow is alive or dead, I… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If I could go to dinner with one person, alive or dead, I think I would choose alive. — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself.reach down inside.the love you found will set you free.Believe in youself.You would come alive.Have faith in what you do.You'll… — Joey McIntyre Copy Share Image
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“When you're restless, you're alive and awake, not sleepwalking in your life or in your creative practice. You value independent thinking of… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of the world turns into checklists for me when I'm on the road. Like, OK, this person's alive, this person's… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with… — Anna Maxwell Martin Copy Share Image
My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel… — Maria de Villota Copy Share Image
Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
There are more people dead than alive; we all will be in the majority one day. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half.… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being… — Daphne Zuniga Copy Share Image
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