Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

I work to stay alive.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

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

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

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

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

Keep hope alive!

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.

You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

It's a great time to be alive.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

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

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

In my world, I am one of the luckiest humans alive.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama.

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice.

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.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.