Famous quotes containing the word alive:
“I wouldnt pray just for a old man thats dead because hes all right. If I was to pray, Id pray for the folks thats alive and dont know which way to turn. Grampa here, he aint got no more trouble like that. Hes got his job all cut out for him. So cover him up and let him get to it.”
—Nunnally Johnson (18971977)
“The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“What man dare, I dare.
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble. Or be alive again
And dare me to the desert with thy sword.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)