Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Buford

There's not stuffiness, there's not reverence about literature ... it's actually very hip, often spontaneous, dramatizations of what's appearing in the magazine, to show just how alive and up-to-the-minute some of the fiction can be.

Jacob Whitesides

I stay up late; I'm like a vampire. I stay up until, like, 6 A.M. and then sleep till 4 P.M. I lay in bed till it's dark, and then I come alive in the night.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now -- completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

What still alive at twenty-two. / A clean, upstanding chap like you! / Sure, if your throat is hard to slit, / Slit your girl's and swing for it.

We showed that the centre-left is alive and kicking.

The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice.

The Israelis and some Westerners are trying to delete Arafat from our memory, but he will remain alive in our hearts,

The festival also helps to keep alive this music that is historically considered America's contribution to music.

The consumer is still alive and well despite softening of the housing market.

The Canadian economy is alive and well and will continue to grow. This will be near-term positive for the Canadian dollar.

I'm going to keep hope alive during these next couple games that something turns. Losing three in a row, going to Oklahoma, is not what I envisioned early on.

Lance Armstrong

I know that I'm here today and I'm alive today and I've been blessed to have this life and this sport, and I want to win the 2004 Tour de France.

Agatha Christie

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutelymiserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quitecertainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

John Olerud

I'm looking for a good pitch to hit, something that he'll leave over the plate. He just did a good job pitching to me. His cutter was still alive and jumping out of his hand.

It's our No. 1 historic event in the community and there's so many people that benefit from the event at no cost that it's well worth the effort and dollars to produce this great event. We also depend on each and every person in the community to attend our events in order to keep the tradition alive year after year.

Danville had a five point lead at halftime. Our defense came alive in the fourth and it made the difference.

Does it change anything? Not really, no. It's historical, and it's our job to keep it alive and going.

Do not even think that they are alive the Creator Lord Himself has killed them.

Consumers don't like to be shoulder-surfed when they're online. (But) this is not a deal-breaker for the Web. The Web is alive and well and will continue to thrive. These little bombs will continue to go off, and they'll continue to be fixed.

Joe Buck

You throw out that Donovan McNabb is starting the game with a 95.2 quarterback rating and expect people to understand it, ... There's not a human being alive who could really explain to you what quarterback ratings mean. Pythagoras couldn't, either. I shouldn't need a compass and protractor to rate these guys.

Strong employment keeps alive the risks to wage inflation and the central bank's concerns.

The Australian Light Horse Association was formed to keep the legend alive and we all have authentic gear and equipment,

Steve Spurrier

The atmosphere was wonderful. These fans were alive before the game and through the game.

The adhesion of cells is very quick and far stronger than will be needed for most applications. We just let them incubate for 35 minutes, rinse, and we're ready to go. We've kept our cells alive on the chip for up to 25 hours and the same proportion of cells survive using our method as cells cultured under identical conditions.

Clyde Edgerton

strong , long-dormant urge to fly came thundering back alive after almost twenty years. I had to get one of these little airplanes. I had to start flying again. Suddenly . . . I was rehooked, reinfatuated.

Josh Schwartz

Summer goes toe-to-toe with her as a sort of symbolic gesture to keep the Marissa flame alive at Harbor.

These numbers tell us that the underlying productivity surge observed in recent years remains alive and well. If productivity could rise by 1.1 percent during a sluggish growth environment, imagine what can happen once the U.S. reverts back towards trend economic growth.

Mara Wilson

Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.

The new economy is very, very much alive and well. This is that healthy shakeout of Internet companies that many of us have been talking about for months. Now it's time to sift through the rubble and see what's left standing -- and what will grow in its place.

I tried to make a film that was not a lot of empty (garbage). To me, the film is about the relationship between the boy and a black guy - he comes to see him for what he really is. That's the most rewarding part of the film. Most of the credit goes to Eamonn Walker, who is one of the greatest actors alive today.

Philip Pullman

It's not like watching TV; it's not even like watching a film in a cinema. Everyone in that big space is alive and everyone is focussed on one central activity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

For it is not simply because of mere sluggishness alone that human relationships repeat themselves from case to case in such unspeakable monotonous and unrefreshed ways; there is also a certain shyness for unforseeable experiences generally because one doesn't feel up for them. But only for the one that is on the lookout for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatic, will the relationship to another become something alive and to speak to the whole potential of one's existence.

For many African-Americans, it's confirmation of what many people have felt for a long time that their second-class status is alive and well today.