I work to stay alive.
~ Bette Davis
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
~ Peter Ustinov
My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.
~ Anderson Cooper
I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
~ Jesus Christ
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
~ E. W. Howe
To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.
~ John Lautner
We are most alive when we're in love.
~ John Updike
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
~ Russel Honore
I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
~ Werner Herzog
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
~ Havelock Ellis
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
~ Seamus Heaney
Art gives people a reason to be alive.
~ Marilyn Manson
Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
~ Sally Mann
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
~ Natalie Merchant
We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
~ Jim Harrison
I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
~ Hugh Kingsmill
