“My feeling is, if I can describe the way a steak looks on the plate, when it's just kind of juices are coming out, and it's almost alive, and just wants to be eaten, I hope that people will feel it, more than they will feel me describing the tangy minerality of the dry-aged beef between my teeth.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsLooksKindI CanFeelingsAliveTeethDryComing OutPlatesJuiceDescribingBeefSteak Author:Pete Wells
“I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my revolutionary commitments; they'll have to kill me first. They can't buy me out. I'm just not interested in what they have to offer. I've managed to stick it out, and the thing that has been the most rescuing, the most redeeming, feature of my life that has kept me alive, that has kept me more or less single-minded about my commitment to libertarian ideals once I escaped the trap of Marxist-Leninism - a childhood trap, to be sure - has been consciousness.” FirstsHas BeensI CanAgeConsciousnessAliveChildhoodOffersCommitmentIdealsSticksLibertarianCompromiseFeaturesRevolutionaryNot InterestedTrapsAssuranceKill MeMarxistRedeemingNever Compromise Author:Murray Bookchin
“I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.” IfsMindMayPersonsStillsI CanDesireAliveIntentionIf I CouldThis DayMonkBeginners Author:Nhat Hanh
“I'm 64, but I act like I'm still 12. I go to schools. At colleges, they come out in droves, they almost scare me. I think it's just to see if I'm still alive. After I work them out - and it's not easy - I sit them down and we have a serious talk. Are they eating? Working on their body? I can say things parents won't say. No matter where I go, I talk to each one individually after I teach. They tell me things like, 'I'm starving, guys like girls thinner.' I give them concrete advice about self-image and self-worth.” IfsThinkingGivingStillsI CanSelfMatterBodySchoolGuyGirlEasyParentTeachAliveAdviceCollegeSeriousEatingDown AndSelf WorthScareConcreteStarving Author:Richard Simmons
“Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.” WritingI CanHardCharacterHappensJoyNightAliveMagicHard WorkSittingNineClockOne NightTypewriters Author:Robert Cormier
“I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily basis. So I don't write every day. I'm just not disciplined, and I can't be in the groove most of the time. I feel like I'm in the groove ten days a year or something. But with reading and research, I feel like I have this incredibly instinctive pleasure-driven process that ends up working out for me and inspiring me. It's almost like a maze, like I know eventually I'll hit the heart of my play if I read enough books.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingYearsHeartI CanBookEndsEnoughPlayReadingProcessPleasureKnow HowAliveTenResearchBasesWork OutDrivenSpontaneousGrooveMazesBe Spontaneous Author:Annie Baker
“When you wake up and everybody says, "How do you feel, Mike?" I say, "I'm alive." As long as I'm alive I can deal with anything that's out there.” FeelsLongI CanDealsAliveWake UpMikeI'm Alive Author:Michael E. Thornton
“I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.” LooksI CanAliveMeatLike Something Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.” PeopleKnowsI CanAliveMetsAdmire Author:Ken Livingstone