Top 1200 Lucky To Be Alive Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It's definitely pretty overwhelming sometimes. But I'm really lucky and grateful to have all these fans. I know I'm lucky.

Everybody comes up with this term lucky-"Oh, she's so lucky." Even though I was lucky, I had a lot of struggle before that. I said I was going to give up everything at age 25 and get into event management because nothing was going for me. I used to have a lot of nervous breakdowns.

To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

You're alive, Bianca. You still can't appreciate what it means, to be alive. It's better than being a vampire - better than anything else in the world. I remember a little of waht being alive was like, and if I could touch that again, even for a day, it would be worth anything in the world. Even dying again, forever. All the centuries I've known and all the marvels I've seen don't compare to being alive." ~from Evernight, by

'Fast and Furious' continues to be alive, which means 'Tokyo Drift' is still alive, which means DK is very much alive.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them.

I just feel lucky; I just feel happy to be alive.

I feel really lucky, although I hate that word - 'lucky'.

Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.

The most common thing over the years is, 'What's it like to work with David Lynch?' That's absolutely the fascination, whether it's people that are in the industry or it's just diehard fans. Because he's our modern-day master. We're lucky enough to be alive at the time that an absolute master and genius is working.

Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.

I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.

I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I’ve done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess it’s realizing I am part of the world around me.

I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

I wouldn't give people advice except to share with them what I'm doing, which is, You're alive - stay alive.

I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.

I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

I don't really believe in lucky things, but I wear lucky underwear as a joke.

I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.

I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

I'm lucky to get to do the job that I do. I'm really lucky to be able to work in so many different areas of this industry.

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

There's always a risk that something goes wrong, like a structural failure. But you have confidence in the whole system and the measures that have gone into place to minimize the risk. Sometimes you land when your knees are clanking together and you say you're lucky to be alive. But you are - and you move on.

My heart is very much alive and in your hands. Do your best not to destroy it. You are very lucky it isn't it my hands... The only thing I know to do with hearts is incinerate them! Ouch!

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.

Overall, I think I'm just lucky, and I hope I continue to be lucky.

If I could go to dinner with one person, alive or dead, I think I would choose alive.

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough.

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.

That’s the beauty of being a comedian: it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky.

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoal. The miracle is to walk on earth. You breathe in, you become aware of the fact that you are alive. You are alive and you are walking on this beautiful planet. The greatest of of all miracles is to be alive.

When I woke up I didn't know why I was in hospital so I was asking 'Why am I here?' I was pulling all the tubes and my brother Eduardo tried to stop me so we had a fight. The accident was just so unlucky, but I know I am lucky to be alive.

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.

A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.