A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Sheila Tousey: there's no actress alive that surpasses Sheila's talent. — Lily Gladstone 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
If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
My dad is the Frenchest man alive, but totally dresses like a cowboy and is obsessed with vintage. — Camille Rowe Copy Share Image
That is why he appears to us who are deeply life-hypnotized, obsessed about being alive in any way, as life-negating. To us,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in… — David Berman Copy Share Image
So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical… — Xosha Roquemore Copy Share Image
Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads.… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The spirit of the drum is something that you feel but cannot put your hands on, It does something to you from… — Babatunde Olatunji Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is… — Mel White Copy Share Image
Part of me was saying if you say that she's alive, what would everybody think? What are you gonna tell everybody who… — Manti Te'o Copy Share Image
“The high fear was over, and nothing was left but the fear that never stops, the one that asks and asks, *How… — Betsy James Copy Share Image
'It was stupid, thinking it was him, I mean, I knew he was dead' Harry muttered. 'You think the dead we loved… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
