If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
Wole Soyinka

The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin.
Pierre Cardin

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

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
David Rockefeller

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
Gordon Ramsay

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
Jim Henson

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.
Jayne Mansfield

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
Hugh Laurie

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Elizabeth I

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Elizabeth I

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.
Evel Knievel

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
James Hetfield

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
Allen Ginsberg

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
Harvey Fierstein