Best five & alive Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting.”

Wells Kind Seems Today Taken Five Alive New York Painting Wall Six

Author:Jackson Pollock

“Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.”

War Fighting Challenges Chance Five Pieces Alive Land Israel Small Pieces Yom Kippur

Author:Shimon Peres

“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”

Stills Different Earth Animal Millions Records Five Alive Thousand Survival Percent Plant Species Billions Fifty Forty One Time

Author:David M. Raup

“If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.”

Ifs Men Work Five Alive Fool Fifty

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Seems Left Five Alive Reader First Time Appearance Five Years Publish Annuals Proust Posthumous

Author:Janet Flanner

“Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.”

Years Firsts Book Dream Memories Five Alive Impression Five Years Haunting Texture Picture Books Vividness

Book:Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)

“Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.”

Years Believe Hard Reason Happens Turns I Believe Laughing Five Our Lives Alive Cry Please Extremes Reason Why

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.”

Ends Past Sex Half Five Alive Wife Wonderful Berserk

Author:Gavin Ewart

“Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.”

Five Alive Hundred Fifty Seventeen Drones Hives

Book:Songs in Many Keys

Source: Songs in Many Keys

“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.”

Knows Men Mean Has Beens Two Law Courses Party Five Alive Minutes Complicated Lawyer Suits Five Minutes Premises Disagreement Drones Scarecrow

Author:Charles Dickens

“One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?”

Thinking Years Stills Care Grows Party Five Alive Aging Disappear Cards Fewer Sixty

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?”

Ifs World Should Nature Five Alive Twenties Bitter Fifty Twenty Five

Author:Alfred the Great

“Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.”

Years Art Stills Moments Born Five Alive Magic Music Is Years Ago Twenties Excited Hungry Five Years Motivated Twenty Five

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“One, two, three four five, All is well I am alive, Six,seven,eight nine ten, All is well, no whining then!”

Wells Two Three Five Four Alive Ten Six Seven Eight Nine Whining I Am Alive

Author:Eugene Sue

“The medics generally see the worst of the worst. They see everything. They're working on their friends, and they're working on their enemy. The person that was just firing at them, trying to kill them, five minutes ago, if an Army medic stumbles upon him and he's still alive, he just goes to save his life.”

Ifs Trying Persons Stills Enemy Five Alive Minutes Worst Army Five Minutes Firing Stumble Upon Medics

Author:Brendan Fehr

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.”

Knows Men Dies Clear Five Alive One Day Hundred Senses Ninety Unattainable Five Senses

Book:The Cherry Orchard

Source: The Cherry Orchard

“The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control. . . . Good writing . . . explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.”

Should Writing Beautiful Faces Three Morning Five Four Alive Reader Clock Reckless Good Writing

Author:Joy Williams

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