I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.
It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
I'm not a claustrophobe, but you don't need to be to feel claustrophobic inside an MRI. It's like being buried alive.
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
What I thought was fascinating about comparative religion was that these were the stories that humans have told themselves about where they come from, who they are and where they're going, and what it means to be alive on the planet.
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.
'Wipeout' is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.
I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
