Quotes By Famous Authors: [M]
The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.
Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, ...
Even if nothing awaits you in the dark, Tal wondered, what if your line is baited, and you keep pulling in things you do not ...
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ...
The divorce has become a reality.
You also yell at the pigeons outside, watch too many cooking shows, and have a blog entirely dedicated to pictures of yourself.
Fide members of registered shooting clubs,
I like the philosophy of the sandwich, as it were. It typifies my attitude to life, really. It's all there, it's fun, it looks good, ...
May Knowledge reshape your lives so that your greater destiny may come into view
I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own ...
What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.
Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.
Sentences take shape from the words that are stacked on top of one another in the dusty chambers of my mind, waiting to be used--words ...
As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.
Her scent assaulted his senses before he saw her. His body reacted like it did every time she was around.
She took a right, and then another right. Shouldn't the long corridor leading to the stairs be just ahead? Where had she made a wrong ...
America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.
We wanted to find love, stay in love, and evolve with love, and we'd waited forever to find the one person who would make that ...
It seemed to me that life was a giant ice skating rink, and I was the only one who didn't have skates. Most people fear ...
In a speech at Bar Ilan university, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time endorses the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Come baaaaaaack. They're questioning me about every little thing. I'm breaking Anna. I'm gonna snap and tell them I'm a werewolf and you're my mate ...
What we call 'normal' [sane] is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on our experience" (R. Laing, ...
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut ...
Watcha doin'?" Caeden flopped down on the couch beside me."Homework, you should really try it sometime."He snorted. "You don't even know what grades I make.""I'm ...
Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic and ...
I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.
A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus ...
I have been all over this world of ours and I have found only one truth to be universal no matter what culture, people or ...
If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
Ask anyone who's been around the NSBlock a few times: Key-Value Observing has the worst API in all of Cocoa.
But the pain, the memories--those were the toughest. They'd come at you out of nowhere.
Strength isn't about how much you can handle before you fall, it's about how much you can handle after you fell.
If she'd kept up her AAA membership, she would have called them, but after the divorce, she'd had to cut some things out. Roadside assistance ...
A good recipe in the hands of a bad chef is still distasteful! A good chef must have a discriminating palate, and a good band ...
Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
It's OK to be wrong; it's unforgivable to stay wrong.
Some see things as they are: others as they are" (p.82) ~CXCI
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able ...
Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace ...
The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.
It was very difficult but definitely not a snap decision
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from ...
So at this moment Judd felt eternal solitude coming upon him. The dignity, the consistency, of the deed had been broken; they were no longer ...
[Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008] helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture ...
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As E.B. White said, "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.
The future may bring you darkness, but it can't take away your ability to create light.
Metabolism is oxygen. And oxygen comes from breathing.
This is the last time you'll read the phrase "his or her" or "he or she"; from this point on, I'll use one or the ...