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I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man ...

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace ...

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.

Popsicles should be the new black and then everyone would have one.

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

I think I grew up that night. It might have been Patrick that lost his virginity, but it was me that lost my innocence.

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super ...

It's better to die chasing a dream never caught than to die never having chased the dream.

Defeating one ant had taken all my energy. (I don't think I have ever written a sadder sentence than that.)

The hippogriff took off into the air ... He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them ... then a cloud ...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on ...

It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different ...

Put your manuscript down, I'd recommend at least two months. Six would be ideal. You really need to get away from it long enough to ...

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

Any second can be the beginning of anything; any second can be the end of anything! Welcome to our universe!

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ...

Despite everything that has befallen us, do we not continue to hold the destiny of this shattered and magnificent nation, together with the future of ...

I remember meeting you, Hall," Nathan said. "I knew right away you were a good guy.""I don't know if I was," I said. "Maybe I ...

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have ...

The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my life is the ...

How is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being save. The four of them were there-or therabouts-and only one ...

I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. ...

You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!

These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. And once you cross the line, there's no coming back. Mark my words.

Who ... what are they?" "My pride and glory," Alex said fondly. "Betty and Lucy Coltrane. Best damned bouncers in the business. Though of course ...

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

Admitting that racism has played a part in our success means admitting that the American dream isn't quite so accessible to all.

One of the defining features of the Anthropocene is that the world is changing in ways that compel species to move, and another is that ...

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

What they did was sell invisible things. And after they'd sold what they had, they still had it. They sold what everyone needed but often ...

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain ...

In for a penny, in for a pound.

I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of ...

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

She was the only thing I needed. If everything else went away tomorrow, the big house, all the cars, the money, I wouldn't care. As ...

Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet ...

To enjoy a moment, you have to love and appreciate it.

When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 ...

Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

I don't have a normal life.

Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved in. It's fascinating how easily ...

Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back ...

I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're ...

I read recently that women still make 30% less than men in the workplace. Which I think is fine, cause if we didn't make 30% ...

It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of ...

Why do we cry when somebody die, we can't bring him, back we just lose time crying and feeling miserable and after few days we ...

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

He did not smile back, and somehow I feel like he's been carrying my smile around in his breast pocket ever since. He's one up.

I'm a writer, not a genre.

Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to ...

You have a ... remarkable memory.""I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.

There are no wrong people - only the wrong expression and the wrong perception.

People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet ...

Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it.

I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on ...

I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a ...

I have a theory that too much learning unbalances the mind.

I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

How can you ask me when i want to get married when you have yet to ask me if i will marry you?

When you think a positive thought, you become positive.

We fear only what we haven't understood.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

I moved to the east coast when everybody else was going to the west coast. I (then) chased it back toward the west coast. I ...

Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional - that's where you ...

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure ...

Indeed you have what it takes to care like a mare, but can misters br one?

As imagination grew it is likely that the fear of death increased until the Folk that were to come projected this fear into the dark ...

Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without ...

A six-week island getaway and a book deal any way I looked at it. I glanced over at Jeannie and she was giving me a ...

By the time Bones announced it was Tammy's turn, I'd fallen in love with him all over again. Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls ...

Whenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.

My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

They sought to revitalize a nineteenth-century style of employment relations in which workers were considered liabilities rather than assets. It was a style in which ...

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public ...

Potentially the seed has a mighty tree within it. The four aspects of our nature (the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual) are ...

He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to ...

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

It was disturbing, like an enchanted place. I had not thought it could be as beautiful as this

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much. But you have to crawl into your wounds ...

My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.

I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark' ... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War ...

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're ...

Life's an experience on its own".

God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the ...

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.