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All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired?I sat very diligently, she said.
Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. ...
And what great writers actually pass on is not so much their words, but they hand on their breath at their moments of inspiration.
Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.
You will find God in the church of your choice.
Often, the teachers would ask me what language we spoke at home. This was a not-so-subtle way of discovering if we spoke Yiddish (which we ...
To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
My mother used rituals to perpetuate an illusion of family organization.
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.
I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
I'm kind of the antithesis of a comedian. People that don't like me will agree with that.
M, I love you like Deadpool loves Batman. He doesn't. But even if he did, they're from completely different universes. --R
The message behind every brand that's plus size is about making a woman feel confident in any shape or size. Now straight size, it's all ...
I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and ...
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the ...
Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.
The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.
What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?
Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.
Why are you hitting yourself, Jessie Kay? Huh? Huh? Why?
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
Basic economic theory. People behave differently based on how much they think something's worth. Because everyone got their chips for free, people made huge bets ...
They did have that connection, and when he was with Clair, it just felt right. As if she were the missing piece to his broken ...
We all dream; it is a mystery in which all humankind participates. I realize this is an assumption, but it is one that I have ...
It's hard raising parents.
An empty canvas is a living wonder ... far lovelier than certain pictures.
I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try ...
Thank you for realizing I'm capable of making sound decisions.""Of course you are. You chose me after all.
Fern's never had very good luck with animals. She smothers them with affection and care and they thank her by croaking. Fern hasn't figured out ...
What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity ...
When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a ...
If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.
The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.
Amanda raised her glass in a toast. "Here's a wet one to Saint Iris of the Hummocks!" Then she winced and scowled at Riker, who ...
I have a heart but it's dark, so very verily dark...
Amazing? My heart fluttered. "But I don't want Flash or Harry," I murmured. "You want Spider-Man," he finished for me, looking a little wistful. I ...
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you ...
After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major ...
When I took the job in Philadelphia, we had a chance to hire a personnel guy and I hired Tom [Gamble], really from my relationship ...
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone desire so acute that it became despair.
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
Generally speaking, it is injudicious for ladies to attempt arguing with gentlemen on political or financial topics. All the information that a woman can possibly ...
I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but ...
Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.
Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.
There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.
Nameless is my price.
I assure my fellow citizens that the vast majority of Muslims experience the same fear they do. ISIS and Al Qaeda are my enemies, too. ...
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and ...
I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.
When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.
History passes the final judgment.
What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns ...
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
Live your life ... as though everything is a miracle.
How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?
Don't worry about your future, Washington will take care of everything for you.
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
Can you identify in your own life speculations that became educated guesses and then truth? Have you ever seen your established truths upended, with a ...
The Absolute Truth can be perceived by a repentant heart.
In the NBA, it's about patience.
If you love me at all, then you'll get off the damn edge of that roof!" she shouts, her sudden spurt of anger alarming me. ...
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there might be a wife someplace else.
One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let ...
It is a sad moment when I sit back and take a critical inventory of my life. I have never allowed myself to dwell on ...
And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational ...
The moment of change is usually not dazzling. It is a quiet, internal choice. No one can see it, but your life will never be ...
How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May ...
Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave ...
She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since ...
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planed for you? Not ...
If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate ...
I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have ...
The road to success is through commitment.
I love cold weather.
What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems ...
Sure, we had no audience but each other, but what kind of supervillains would we be if we didn't keep up the drama?
I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,a wind-up plush ...
The world is a looking-glass which flings back to us the reflection of ourselves. If we laugh it laughs back at us. If we shed ...
Until Self-realization is attained; it is not worth having a fixed-view at any place, it is not worth having habitual-devotion at any place and it ...
We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without ...
I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and ...
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
IN OUR SOCIETY, MARCUS, the most admired men are those who build bridges, skyscrapers, and empires. But in reality, the proudest and most admirable are ...
They're in trouble, Kaz had thought. Or you were dead wrong about Matthias, and you're about to pay for all of those talking tree jokes.
Bizarrely, I am convinced that a writer incapable of talking about himself is not a complete writer. - WITOLD GOMBROWICZ,
When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora ...
Sweeter than joy itself, for the heart of the laugh was love.
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with ...