Erwin McManus Quotes

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

Erwin McManus

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• Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Wood

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Find
  • Instinct
  • Notes

• I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Alive
  • Devotion

• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct

• People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Me
  • Fashion

• As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Know
  • Alive
  • Optimistic

• Lena Dunham texts me every morning the minute she wakes up to make sure I'm alive.

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • Morning
  • Alive

• Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Funny
  • Alive

• What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Wife
  • Natural
  • Instinct

• Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Did he just say--?" "Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did." "Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Smile
  • Alive

• I have a strong preference for being alive.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Strong
  • Alive
  • Preference

• I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Value

• Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Alive

• I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Fighting
  • Film
  • Struggle

• It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Language
  • Said
  • Firsts

• It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Brain

• In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get people to return phone calls.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • House
  • Opportunity

• I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.

  

  Rupert Penry-Jones
  • Remember
  • Acting
  • Designer

• A country whose population gets its living by cheating is a bad country.

  

  Aleksey Tolstoy
  • Country
  • Living
  • Cheating

• Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Alive
  • Instinct