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If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea ...

I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence.

You accuse me of black marketing, but which of you has not slept with me?

The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which ...

I don't believe that knifing and that sort of terminology is applicable to myself, but I try to the very best of my ability to ...

I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I ...

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is ...

You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance ... The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of ...

A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of ...

God hears every quiet prayer on your heart.

Make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d

We must first achieve peace within ourselves. Only then can we take that peace out into the world and invite others to make similar changes.

Despite evidence to the contrary, I hated drinking to the point that I misplaced really big slabs of time.

Nothing is difficult for the humble.

The earth you subdue becomes your kingdom

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.

She will never mention to Leonard that she'd planned on fleeing, even for a few hours. As if he were the one in need of ...

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, ...

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. ...

Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will ...

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If ...

He took a large tablet of beet sugar (an equivalent quantity of ordinary lump sugar does equally well) and soaked it in Angostura Bitters and ...

When we're all alone, it might be to frightening to bear ... but we're all right beside each other. We've got our friends close by! ...

Jon, could there be honor in a lie, if it were told for a ... good purpose? - Samwell

I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional. Then it was too late.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the ...

You are a dynamic being of Light that at each moment informs the energy that flows through you. You do this with each thought, with ...

I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class.

The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to ...

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I ...

As Christians, we must see that just because an artist -even a great artist- portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not ...

A true friend is the one who knowseverything about you and still loves you. Eventually, people will forget the things you said or did, but ...

You love my teeth!" she hurled at him."Told you once, told you a million times, Neet, no man likes a woman's teeth scrapin' his dick. ...

When the Byzantine emperor Isaac Angelus demanded it for the Orthodox, Saladin decided that they must share it under his supervision and appointed Sheikh Ghanim ...

Religions are strange. They seem to be caught in some dream which they won't give up and trying to convince others of the truth of ...

She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that.

Tragic deaths aren't avoidable. That's what Ezra said outside Sam's wake, and even though--to use Foster's phrasing--I didn't know anything about anything, I felt in ...

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted ...

It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too suggestive of the ...

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic ...

Joy might be God- in the marrow of our bones.

Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he was ...

This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a ...

Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river ...

I'm thinking of the protector who wants to be protected and a fighter who loves the right battle but will lay down her arms to ...

When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am ...

Beer is a wholesome liquor ... it abounds with nourishment

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the ...

Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you ...

He was a ship loaded down with a full cargo of emotion, riding low in the dark winter sea of death. Isao

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with ...

It felt like lying, only better, because he couldn't be caught, and he couldn't be caught because there was nothing to verify it against. Immersed ...

His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

A strategic victory does not validate all the victor's operational and tactical methods or make them universally applicable.

If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we must ...

We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, ...

We're all crazy, Ms. Sutton. Some of us are simply crazier than others.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and ...

Directions to our apartment should always end with " ... and follow the sound of screaming children".

Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is ...

I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts ...

In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.

Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite ...

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

It was weird how life worked. It was sad how people treated one another. It was horrid how people didn't see the loss of another. ...

It is impossible to know for certain how many innocent drug defendants convict themselves every year by accepting a plea bargain out of fear of ...

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

Did you see more glass?

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.

There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's ...

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, ...

This isn't a good idea," I whispered, watching his lips come toward me. "This is a fucking great idea," he muttered. Then he kissed me.

My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

Yes. Menace and danger, That's what passion is-dangerous love-love that put you at risk, that gets a hold of you and makes you do things ...

God has ordained you for your own assignment in the Kingdom

There was something about Mikie that made me want to trust him. It might have been the Centanario Anejo.

More alone than she had ever been, separated from Heathcliff who had left her at Penistone Crag, Cathy had been wandering lost on the moor ...

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me ...

Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.[Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

Leaves from the vine,Falling so slowLike fragile tiny shellsDrifting in the foamLittle soldier boyCome marching homeBrave soldier boyComes marching home

Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.

As I've heard said, "Of 100 unsaved men, one might read the Bible, but the other 99 will read the Christian."1 Ouch.

STOP wishing for a better tomorrow ... when you can keep working for a better today!

Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it.

Never do what you can't undo.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And ...

This is a hard truth for some to accept: that a lack of resources may not be their true constraint, just a lack of resourcefulness.

Can I see it?"She knew what he meant, and had held up her hands before her. Ribbons and plumes and flowers of red and gold ...