“Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.” ShouldArtArtistBreakAliveExpressionClaimsCamerasConventionsWornFreedom Of ExpressionWorn Out Author:Alvin Langdon Coburn
“Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.” KnowsMenDoeKnow HowAliveClaimsGladCuresChineseBallistics Book:Benchley--or else! Source: Benchley--or else!
“It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.” WorldGivingYearsChildrenHas BeensMadeReasonSeemsMightEarthFormOrderUniverseWaterChancePerfectAliveAtheismComfortableGloryAll ThingsClaimsHistoricalEightBillionsHeightCoveredMight Have BeenFascinationHubrisA Perfect WorldAbodeWhy MeContingencyOctopusHappy To Be Alive Book:An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
“Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way.” WayHumansArtSelfFormHateAliveConditionsPaperClaimsHeavyWoodsAbstractCivilizedHuntingHuman ConditionHuntersHate YouPreyLiftingStalkingPlaying MusicHeavy LiftingHating Yourself Author:Steven Rinella
“A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it.” LightLife IsAliveGenerationsPossibilityFitClaimsDarePhenomenonSpheresCosmicSpontaneousLikelihoodOrigin Of Life Author:Donald C. Peattie
“If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that animals aren't being mistreated, abused, tortured, terrorized and savagely murdered in these places? How in the world could SLAUGHTERING BILLIONS of INNOCENTS be done with love, humanity and concern?” IfsWorldDoneHumanityAnimalPiecesAliveConcernClaimsBillionsChickensCowsPigsTurkeysSlaughterhousesMistreatedDone With Love Author:Gary Yourofsky
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.” IfsThinkingWorldLifeTwoSocialVoiceAnswersAliveEqualUniqueImportanceClaimsStriveComplicatedBillionsIntense Book:Atonement Source: Atonement
“The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.” WayPhilosophyMomentsFactsHappensCertainLove IsAliveSpecialConcernedClaimsPhilosophicalBoundsWholenessFullnessCompleteness Author:Thomas Merton
“Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.” IfsJobsHumanityFightingAliveProveClaimsQuittingShoppingMasturbationQuitting Your Job Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."” GodUseBlackSecretAliveSkinsClaimsPoliceBlueDrinkingCupsBeatenSkullsDemigodsAmbushSecret PoliceSparta Author:Janet Morris