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There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we ...
What about Wee Squirl? --Rose MacDonell
Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.
That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.
The thing about animation is that it's a constantly changing process. They talk in terms of sequences - so there's like thirty different sequences in ...
Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering ...
Abby, I don't know who you are, but I do know that you're a remarkable woman. Come what may, I would love to meet you ...
Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
A good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message.
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
A ray of light peeked through the casket of his heart and shone a ray on the decayed hope there.- Holt McKnight
This is a place for crazy people.. i'm not crazy
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was ...
It says he's rich. It also says he's a scion. What the heck is a scion? Sounds like some kind of refrigerator or a car.
Late one night, an account man was having sex with his secretary. He was fairly junior, so his inside office didn't have a door, and ...
There'd be no molecules, no chemistry and, hence, no life without static cling.
For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles ...
You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.
An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone ...
The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a ...
I think we're our biggest competition. I think the racetrack's the biggest competition. If we go and race the racetrack and try to go around ...
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
Leave the mourning to the doves because we will never die.
Laughter is a gift from God. When we refuse to accept it, it makes Him want to take it back. Like the unicorns.
There was water and waves all around. They ran towered the shore, and made way for the boat as it ran through. At the back ...
My top choices so far are Pond5 and Shutterstock.
We all have secrets.
To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of ...
Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can't hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter ...
We know what it's like to be men. But they know nothing about us.
Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.
There are men too gentle to live among wolves.
I thought I'd do something nice for the band ... I'll hang myself.
Every guitar has a personality.
You won't know 'til you get there!
I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave,
I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, ...
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the ...
To really have that awareness, to be as open as possible, all the time, to beauty and cruelty and stupid human fallibility and unexpected grace.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.
The rest of the gang aren't worth mentioning. But every one of them's got a story.I catch myself writing 'not worth mentioning'. According to what ...
A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.
There's a Zen proverb that states "If you're too busy to sit still for 10 minutes, you need to sit still for an hour.
Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced ...
In a world where one man's trash is another man's treasure, I'd argue that the first man wasn't thinking creatively enough about his trash.
As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because ...
I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim ...
Mike's brain was hardwired directly into his genitals and most higher functions appeared to have switched themselves off. In other words, he was just like ...