“Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.” YearsWellsHeartAbleTermMemoriesLossAliveTomorrowYears AgoDoctorsThanksWorking ItFifteenSurgeryShort TermAcidOpen HeartFifteen YearsDysfunctionMemory LossBypassYears Of LifeHeart SurgeryShort Term MemoryAcid Reflux Author:David Letterman
“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.” PeopleWorldYearsLongHas BeensTwoSoulEndsEarthDiesJesusHeavenWonderHellAlivePlansGenerationsAtheismReturnThousandYears AgoMiracleDisappointmentWideThousand YearsRottenMansionsDeposits Author:Ruth Hurmence Green
“There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.” FeelsYearsHas BeensI CanThreeAliveCarYears AgoFingersAccidentsThree TimesShatteredCar Accident Author:Jack White
“Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.” YearsTwoAmericaWaterAnimalHalfAliveGrowingIndustryNeededDrugWasteMajorsYears AgoAccountsEnvironmentalConnectedLocalsStreamsTwo YearsChickensSwimmingFactoriesPollutionAgricultureThreatenedConfinedHormonesClosureTysonBacteriaArkansasTwo Years AgoOutbreaksMarylandShellfishWater PollutionNorthwestern Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.” IfsThinkingTryingYearsHumansImportantReasonMightHappensThreeHuman BeingsBehindsWorryAliveWeekYears AgoProcrastinationStaying AliveSavanna Author:James Surowiecki
“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.” YearsArtStillsMomentsBornFiveAliveMagicMusic IsYears AgoTwentiesExcitedHungryFive YearsMotivatedTwenty Five Author:Lenny Kravitz
“I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.” IfsThinkingYearsLongTwoMatterPastThreeToo MuchPiecesAliveWrittenHundredYears AgoPerformancesProductionsLong AgoLive In The Present Author:David Finckel
“People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayYearsHas BeensWarEnoughCareRealizingAliveFiguresYears AgoStressVery GoodTake CarePostsSensibleWoundedComing Back Author:Anna Deavere Smith
“Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.” IfsYearsHumansPersonsAsksHuman BeingsAliveYears AgoSevenSeven Years Author:Daniel Alarcon
“And it totally has transformed my relationship with someone like, say, Bach. You know, Bach is born 330 years ago but, you know, gosh, he really is alive.” KnowsYearsBornAliveYears AgoTransformed Author:Mahan Esfahani
“I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness of it. It has many colors, being alone. I walked out into my living room and I can say honestly that everything was pouring with life - the red sofa, the chairs with their patterns of roses, even the coffee table with its scattering of books. Everything was alive with the presence of being. Seeing the world though those eyes, I realized that I could never really be alone.” WorldYearsI CanBookEyeFeltRoomsMorningAliveSeeingColorCoupleRedYears AgoTablesRosePatternsCoffeeI RealizedHonestlyBitterChairsTendernessSweetnessLiving RoomPouringUp EarlySeeing The WorldSofas Author:Roger Housden
“Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.” ThinkingWayYearsWellsPayAliveEqualYears AgoAustraliaFortySexismOptimistEqual Pay Author:Jacki Weaver
“Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.” WorldYearsLongTwoTogetherRememberFatherLeftAliveYears AgoDiedTwo YearsFather DiedUlyssesTwo Of UsTwo Years Ago Author:William Saroyan
“Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived” IfsThinkingMenYearsBelieveLittlesMadeWarSometimesRunningSidesVoiceChallengesAliveEasierYears AgoArmyAncientGladMade ItSurvivedSkullsVery DeepEmbeddedMushroomsTrenchesLittle Man Author:Pat Barker
“Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.” FeelsYearsMeanDoeStillsTwoMatterHoursAliveNew YorkHundredYears AgoTraditionTownsFranklin Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then."” PeopleYearsSawsAliveBuildingYears AgoProgramFakeFake PeopleMiamiOver 50 Author:Eddie Izzard
“I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.” ThinkingKnowsWantYearsWholeHomeLastsMotherDesireActingCareersKnow HowAliveCoupleCostMarriedDaughterYears AgoWhole LifePursuitLovelyGood LifeGood FriendAdoreHome Life Author:Kathleen Turner