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The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.
Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck ...
His own finance system was simple: whatever he got, he spent.
And with that, Rorie climbed back not her bed and slept for what seemed like a hundred years.
He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrence was not the still perfume of high summer; ...
I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.
Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.
Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.
The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself - without the assistance of governments. ...
Only solitude means never having to say you're sorry.
All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed
The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of the New York ...
The evaluative criteria are then listed as: "1) storytelling quality; 2) photographic quality; 3) impact; 4) simplicity; 5) beauty" (Mich, 46).
Find of the century." The number of scientists and archeologists muttered together, all glancing at the object at the center of the crowd. It almost ...
The function of the Spirit is to lead us into all truth. Now, truth is a Person and that Person is Jesus. Thus, at a ...
Oh, she does the detecting, I do the insulting.--Consulting, JaneYes, that too!
I'm never quite sure how far to go with praising young kids because the next thing you will see him probably driving a Mercedes and ...
You're already dead inside. Years of living in Espoo have made you an empty husk of a human being. They don't call their hockey team ...
Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may be dead.
One of art's defining characteristics is its relevance to people's shared experiences and also to the reveries and internal dialogues of their interior lives.
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong ...
Yes, Ma'am, I do have all the answers! All in this one slim Volume!
I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
Without the aid of statistics nothing like real medicine is possible.
Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void.
A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique.
Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of ...
No technical skill is worth more than knowing how to select exciting research projects. Regrettably, this vital ability is almost never taught.
Sing of my deedsTell of my combatsHow I fought the treacherous demonsForgive my failingsAnd bestow on me peace
Keep working towards improving on yourself and keep working towards your dreams and goals because no one else will for you.
A good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.
There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think ...
I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear ...
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
Look after your body and your body will look after you
I don't think there's any limit on True Blue Love. The more the merrier, I say," said Harry.
You can't fix who you are on your own, but God is in the business of transforming broken girls into beautiful trophies of His grace.
Blinking, twinkling, burning brightAre all the stars that light the night.Dippers, Ursa's and Orion too,But don't forget the star in you.
The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.
We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later ...
I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in ...
Magic Success Formula for Writing: Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and write!
The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a ...
The United States, however, refused to recognize copyright for foreign authors until 1891,
Life is too short. So why waste ... Precious Time.
It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.
No one is ever as shocked and surprised as when the inevitable occurs.
I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for ...