#alive

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anyone #gets #hardly #irony #life

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#could #dance #dancing #i #parents

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. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#caught #dark #find #haunt #images

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#because #life #look #make #nothing

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#live #make #pretending #us

If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it. ↗

— Randall Terry

#america #behaved #believed #christians #know

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#acquaintance #alive #comes #confess #finding

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#approach #certainly #different #different points #director

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

#grave #his #over #roosevelt #today

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love