Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time. — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The brain is a dynamic system that constantly processes and creates your reality. It works best if you balance all the things… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
I had some bad times. We got married because, you know, I was pregnant. But then I lost the baby. Ups and… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I… — Philip Sheridan Copy Share Image
For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before wed go to bed, my mom and dad would… — Cameron Mathison Copy Share Image
There has never been a moment when faith hasn't been an important part of my life. There have been moments when I've… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Animation remove you from a visual reality - if it was live action, you wouldn't be able to see through the person's… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would… — James Beard Copy Share Image
