“My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.” KnowsLongKidsHouseBornFourAliveStreetsMomDiedMy MomGrandfatherHungMy GrandfatherWidowsOld WomanFather DiedPreschoolWidowedGrandfather Died Author:Jen Kirkman
“Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages. You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.” MadeCharacterOpportunityFourAliveScenePagesTwentiesBillsConstantStreamsProseMarchPurpleRiceBabeLegendaryRoaringHorsemenGertrudeFour HorsemenRare OpportunitiesRoaring Twenties Author:Peter Golenbock
“Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.” NeedsMomentsJobsArtistCompanyRecordsFourAliveFiguresDevelopmentCamerasPhonesSupremeTemptationBridgesGapsRecord Companies Author:Laurieann Gibson
“I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsPersonsBookHumanityPowerfulBehindsFourOur LivesAliveAchievementMythInterviewsTake MeFour Years Author:Kitty Kelley
“I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.” KnowsWayFeelsTryingFirstsLittlesHelpingHappensRunningNightNextWaitingHoursFourAliveMiddleAngelTwentiesLuckGladDumbOver ItThis DaySwearBroadwayGuardianNashvilleGuardian AngelDumb Luck Author:Willie Nelson
“There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.” WorldKindDifferentProblemAnimalMillionsFourAliveSolutionsPlantStayingDifferent KindsStaying Alive Author:David Attenborough
“It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.” PeopleGivingWritingTryingYearsFirstsLittlesWantedJobsFilmThreeSidesChanceStruggleFourAliveDoorsGive MeScriptsPushingEditorsFour YearsNo MoneyStaying AliveBangingCameramanGive Me A Chance Author:George Lucas
“One, two, three four five, All is well I am alive, Six,seven,eight nine ten, All is well, no whining then!” WellsTwoThreeFiveFourAliveTenSixSevenEightNineWhiningI Am Alive Author:Eugene Sue
“It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive” IfsHeartChristianLyingNumbersCompanyLordHellTakenFourAliveBloodSingingSightTwentiesNakedSheepAlmightyTornSolemnInsultingCaptivesRoaringHounds Book:Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Source: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
“I do know its important to keep the romantic spark alive in your marriage. But with four kids, sometimes it's enough just to keep yourself alive.” KnowsImportantSometimesEnoughKidsFourAliveSparks Book:Everything and a Kite Source: Everything and a Kite
“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.” ShouldWritingBeautifulFacesThreeMorningFiveFourAliveReaderClockRecklessGood Writing Author:Joy Williams
“There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.” WantTwoDifferentNightCertainHateThreeSidesEmotionFiveFourAliveOppositesAcknowledgeBroadsSpectrumVariationLove And HateDifferent Emotions Author:Jamaica Kincaid