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Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in ...
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as ...
They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.
I don't want to be here. And when I'm not where I want to be, I feel like I've disappeared.
You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was ...
I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.
It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears in Arabic, but ...
Practice makes the heart grow fonder.
Your powers of observation are formidable, Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.
Women who have succeeded too well at becoming visible have always been penalized vigilantly and forcefully, and turned into spectacles.
...I'm severely allergic to unsolicited monologue performances in public. While they don't cause sneezing or hives, when exposed, I do experience extreme and immediate vaginal ...
I texted Jason exactly two weeks after we'd met. Hi ...
Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?
But some of those memories, the things we hold most dear, they never fade. They're bright red. Not necessarily because they deserve to be red, ...
There are no elevators to success. You havehave to take the stairs...
If an institution has become so large that there is no alternative except for the taxpayers to provide support, should we allow so many institutions ...
Everything is possible and impossible at the same time; this is what we live with every time.
Geniuses and lunatics, they aren't that far from one another. That is also evident on you.
Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It ...
Cause this place is a home away from home where you can forget about all that painful stuff and just be yourself with the people ...
Life is full of tests. They are not multiple choice. There is only one answer: Love
Do not make the mistake of assuming that because we're women we'll eventually want children. We aren't kangaroos - this internal pouch isn't one we ...
If onlyour tongueswere made of glasshow muchmore carefulwe would bewhen wespeak
As his dark closet shows, Bluebeard was a collector at heart, and even after dispatching a wife, could not let her fully depart.
It had been a while since he'd had a woman and that was Emma's fault too. Ever since she'd walked into his office in mid-June, ...
We spend far too much of our lives at work to have it be in opposition to the person we desire to be.
I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.
If we get it wrong, if we repeat the mistakes of our past, the consequences could be devastating. But if we get it right, the ...
I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit ...
If because of the mistakes I have made growing up, someone somewhere can avoid the same mistakes then I would have made the world better
If I had to come up with a single metaphorical device to express what is missing in childhood now it would be something on the ...
Life is filled with ups and downs, the one who perseveres can turn his life around.
When I was doing local weather full time, I would wake up in the morning or stay up all night to make sure the snowflakes ...
Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words ... leave people tone deaf.
Thee only person I am better than is the one I was yesterday.
Claire Fitzpatrick, an Australian content writer who proofread the novel for me. Thanks Claire.
Adam was told to toughen up. Get over it. We hear this a lot. History is in the past, bad things happened but it is ...
Health, not illness, is our natural state. It's usually just a matter of finding it tucked beneath the layers of imbalance that have accumulated over ...
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
If there can be a planet there There will be a planet there.
Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.
I'm so far from lucky, I'm kissing its ass from the other side.
There is a time in each of our lives when we are hurled into the terrible understanding that bedrock can crumble in the blink of ...
Patience comes to those who wait.
Miss Gregory took nearly everything. Her clothes. New girls don't have the privilege of wearing their own clothes. Her books. Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare? Much too ...
We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?
A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points ofits own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be asocial disease of ...
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be ...
Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.
And when I'm in my car I'm laid backI got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseatBut that's flat