Quotes By Famous Authors: [V]
Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
When you stop hoping you start settling.
Curiosity overcame common sense. They
I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.
Everything else, everything, is just human vanity, the dash on the headstone between the day we're born and the day we die.
Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule
It is better to be alone than to be betrayed persistently and dumped . keeping yourself dumped in a room 8x10 is better than hanging ...
When you have done a great many good things, you forget to speak of them. It is those who do very little who must talk ...
I know politics; I know the media.
What is important is not that in every man are the roots of good and evil, but which of the two prevails.
How do you know it's love? I don't know, but it lasts forever.
The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home.
A praying mother is more precious and valuable than all the riches in the world.
Our real teacher has been and still is the embryo, who is, incidentally, the only teacher who is always right.
My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
Always do the thing that scares you!
I first heard music while in the womb. My mom tells me she played Tubular Bells with the headphones against her stomach all the time. ...
We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation.
The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, ...
This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could ...
Movies?). By feeding a virtual "history" to your brain, it will trigger hormone creation, producing necessary dopamine to drive a particular action. In other words, ...
Many Christians are "devoured" by worldly interests that distract them from spiritual service to God.
My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have ...
As the human population continues to grow, it will become harder if not impossible for the human species to manage itself. This has potentially catastrophic ...
The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too ...
Early railway journeys took him to Ceylon, Thailand, and Burma; he would later describe his wanderlust as the "peripatetics of a Jewish prince".
The more I got to know you, the more I began to see that something was missing. Something I had convinced myself that I didn't ...
Make evil intelligible, justice desirable, sorrow endurable, and love possible. My hero taught me that, and for once, I don't mean Batman.
When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an ...
You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.
The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical ...
I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
Have a few beers?" Gabe resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "One, since part of the reason for you to
For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework ...
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of ...
Birgit Mampe and colleagues analysed the crying patterns of 30 French and 30 German newborns. They studied the ups and downs of their natural cries ...
Every immortal has their kryptonite. No one said immortality was the best thing ever, most would call it a curse.
There aren't really rules for painting, but there's certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort ...
Hate to burst your bubble, sweetheart, but a Stetson and a pair of Tony Lamas doesn't make a man a cowboy.
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ...
A lot of people do comedy about India, but they're not from India. It's a Kwik-E-Mart perspective. I want to provide a genuine view and ...
Could she stick her hand in that sink? Did she dare put in the drain plug? Every time she moved toward it, she shrank back, ...
The future is just a projection of the past.
We live in a very special, yet very dangerous time, wherein a new global culture is painfully struggling to be born. It
Life is in the here and now. Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.
The front door is painted a rich, bright red. The corners of my mouth curl into a smile. Have I mentioned my love affair with ...
It is rightly said that we all are equal. The only thing that puts us in a hierarchy is our effort.
Maybe I didn't know her as well as I might have wanted. But I can tell you this: love mattered a great deal to Scarlet ...
Because lying down and letting life walk over you was harder in the end. Getting through a bad day took less out of her than ...