The general effect of viewing ‘Jumanji’ is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my book come alive. – Chris Van Allsburg
I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I’ve never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it. – Alan Arkin
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. – Agatha Christie
I have to be able to rap. I don’t have the look. I don’t have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That’s not me. I have to be able to rap – there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive. – Action Bronson
People are going to bash you while you’re alive, and they’re going to bash you when you’re gone. – Anthony Hamilton
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive – in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern. – Antony Gormley
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
I’m not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. – Chaim Potok
I’m a big fan of rocky girls. I love Hayley Williams and the lead singer from Tonight Alive. – Ashton Irwin
Myths are part of our DNA. We’re a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it. – Amish Tripathi
It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. – Adrienne Rich
I’m not a claustrophobe, but you don’t need to be to feel claustrophobic inside an MRI. It’s like being buried alive. – Billy Collins
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. – Aneurin Bevan
Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive. – Bear Grylls
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive. – Alan Bullock
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now. – Ben Kingsley
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. – The Bible Romans 6:8-11
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive. – Bear Grylls
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances. – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. – Charles Caleb Colton
Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo. – Craig Venter
Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you’re still alive does feel a bit posthumous. – Anthony Browne
