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A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to ...
Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative ...
You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story ...
Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.
I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to ...
Against the wounded sky, a lone angel circles above us. No, not an angel. Light glints off curved metal on one of the edges of ...
If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it ...
If a man has but one child," said the Senator, "and the family is famous for producing unusual, strong-willed individuals, what standards can the man ...
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing ...
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has ...
Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, ...
When two sides who consider each other enemies converge in armed struggle, for the moment they are no longer enemies. They are fellow human beings ...
It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.
Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry
My lord, it is Patroclus, he is dead, his armour taken.. Hector is to blame.' There was a chilling silence, then a sudden intake of ...
When Facebook acquired Oculus, the game changed immediately. You saw big companies jumping in. You saw people like Google getting fully committed, and then Microsoft ...
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristics of a happy home, a holy ...
A Lannister always pays his debts.
To stay true to ourselves and remain kind to others is an art. It does require daily vigilance and, at the same time, it's important ...
Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. But you know, an over-examined life can be a real crap festival, too.
Aphrodite," [Annabeth] said. "Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom," Piper said with no enthusiasm. "Girls!" The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group ...
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he ...
Every life holds the promise of rain. But after the rain comes the rainbow. You just have to stick around long enough to find it.
Nothing seemed to give me pleasure anymore, not even music. My attitude was becoming more and more fatalistic and hopeless. I had no enthusiasm, and ...
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter ...
When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she was the black ...
It always amazed Vimes how Nobby got along with practically everyone. It must, he'd decided, have something to do with the common denominator. In the ...
[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp ... that forces a ...
Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.
Rejoice in every aspect of life - big or small. Let nothing pass you by. Appreciate everything - whether it is perceived as good or ...
There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because ...
It's one of our greatest human flaws: Arrogance. We look up and dare to assume we know, when the universe is unknowable.
Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom, Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison That keeps you from achieving what ...
There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say ...
I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words ...
This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, ...
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary ...
But if a role model in her seventies isn't layered with contradictions - as we all come to be - then what good is she? ...
I think it's very attractive when people cook. So I don't wear sweatpants. When you dress sexy to cook, too, it's like, damn, I got ...
There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And ...
Lorcan rubbed his head. "Am I asking too much to want the little bitch dead? Am I?" It seemed Hefaidd-Hen learned long ago not to ...
Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing:If I started that gay rights group, I must be gay.So if i start an animal rights group,what does that ...
Albert Einstein's equation, E=MC2, is considered to be a theory. Despite being one, we have been able to use it to produce the energy we ...
But it's not possible to forget anybody you were that hung up on, who was that hung up on you. You can't forget anything that ...
Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's ...
Isn't there the light of seven heavens in your heart alone, the way you'll be an angel's lamp to me from this out, and I ...
I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready ...
Pain never apologizes.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
I'm sorry you're angry" is NOT an apology.
Well, I live a double life. Tonight, I'll escort you to dinner. Then I have to rush home and finish my calculus homework.''You're not joking, ...
He was a cowboy with the soul of a poet. To this day, he is the most American American I've ever met.
If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out ...
Never fight an inanimate object.
I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an ...
Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all ...
Danni was his reward for all the bullshit he'd gone through, the torture, the anger,hatred and the bitter loneliness. She was going to be the ...
And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. ...
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that ...
North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always ...
It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want ...
My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy ...
It fascinated me how depression and anxiety overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder. Had we been through some trauma we didn't know about? Was the noise ...
The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and ...
Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are ...
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a ...
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a ...
Even when life hurts, I see no reason to give up. All the mistakes makes me angry, and my anger refuses to lose.
I am only yours, my Luna. I was yours from my first breath and I will be yours until my last.
I laughed. So, let me get this straight. You slayed the dragon, jumped over the moat, climbed the tower of the evil King's castle, saved ...
Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.
An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things ...
But I'm no good at apologizing. I always end up making it worse. I'll say, "I'm sorry," and I'll be all sweet, and then once ...
Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. ...
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. ...
Any business that is trying to sell something should be willing to spend a couple dollars for a stock photo to not have ads in ...
I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and ...
Everyone's main aim should be to find his place in life and succeed as an individual.
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't ...
At what age did men mature? If ever? And at what age did a woman cease having to deal with men acting as if they ...
I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set ...
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Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near ...
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...
Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I ...
Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.
Love isn't a quilt. Love isn't patient, love isn't kind. Love is a game, a chase, a thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every ...
A fool is a thorn in his own flesh, and day after day his wounds worsen.The more he serves folly,the more foolish he becomes.
He forgot about me almost as soon as I disappeared from sight.
Reading was both a gift and a curse for me. Those books made me able to escape into a world I'd never experienced, but at ...
Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to ...