Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
My mother is a very strong woman. We were seven kids; five of them passed away. My elder brother and I are… — Nana Patekar Copy Share Image
If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
It's hard making a movie because it's like... you lose your life. I mean, really, I like being alive; I like having… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because… — Deborah Pryce Copy Share Image
I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
“There's so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I say if you don't write your lyrics, then you can't be the best rapper alive. Not at all. You can be… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
As much as he's been through, he's so alive and open to change. That's what I wanted to channel and I feel… — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross. — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant 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
The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
