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Their errors showed poor attention to detail, ignorance and a bad attitude.

Stay out of people's business and don't tell people your business." Dominique preferred getting

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

He gazed up at me in that way that made me feel cherished. His expression was simultaneously wondrous and joyful. I realized that I put ...

I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been attracted ...

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.

Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to ...

In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.

In his homilies, this old Jesuit always talked about desire, and how we were connected by our desires. He said the most basic human desire ...

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I ...

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

I have some crack sources - cops who call me, and say, "Hey, there's a dead body in Civic Park, try not to beat the ...

What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must ... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so ...

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy. Upon those chairs in disarray, among those flowers which are withering, ...

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening ...

The bone-chillingingly cold air is still. Silent.

I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to ...

The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all ...

The Mohammedans will rise up and will affect first, the area of Portugal, Spain, and Gibraltar affecting many people.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make ...

Resa longed for the kitchen, always full of the humming of the oversize fridge, for mo's workshop in the garden, and the armchair in the ...

Hic jacet Arthurus Rex quandam Rexque futurus - the once and future king.

As you grow up you spend less and less time outside. Nobody can say "Go play outside" to you anymore to you.

Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the only means of ...

When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and ...

Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. Was Father Tom thinking about vengeance now? The possibility amused him. Perhaps the next time he went to confession ...

Naturally, it gave rise to a round of tears like an autumn shower that soon evaporates in the sunshine of love, leaving behind only a ...

Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear ...

I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams and romance of ...

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which ...

It's not 1950. A girl can ask a guy out if she wants.

Change the world, I know I won't,Enthralling as always I hope it remains,A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.But my only wish as I take ...

There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells ...

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of ...

I guess the best part of music is that there's not much unknown. Especially in country, because it's always someone leaving or dying or drinking ...

'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and ...

Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.

("We will call Chase, Jeans Are Too Thight, and Fulton shall be Short One Chewing Tobacco," Hassan whispered to Colin.) "Je m'appelle Pierre," Colin blurted ...

Abusive parents have inappropriate expectations of their children, with a reversal of dependence needs. Parents treat an abused child as if the child were older ...

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history ...

The worst feeling in life is not being lonely; it's being forgotten by the one person you could never forget.

I'm not holding Hitler up as a role model, the man was a filthy swine, but as I stood in the suspicious glare of my ...

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or ...

Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that ...

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already ...

It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore.

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell ...

Williams was making more than $20 million a year.

Creativity means loving whatsoever you do - enjoying, celebrating it, as a gift of God!

Don't be a witness. Be an activist.

It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, ...

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

A good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating ...

The States acceded to the Union.

Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there.

Maybe the package comes in a different shape than we originally thought it would.

Many churches offer more entertainment than worship, more uniformity than diversity, more exclusivity than outreach, more law than grace.

In the past, before the physiology of abdominal training was well understood, bodybuilders used to do a lot of "conventional" abdominal exercises such as Sit-Ups ...

Still, however, she had the sensation of there being something more than immediately appeared, in Mr Elliot's wishing, after an interval of so many years, ...

Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush ...

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled ...

I had a dream about you. I opened your chest like a cabinet, it had doors, and when I opened the doors, I saw all ...

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

He slammed the door shut in Ian's face, the lock clicking into place. Ian hit it again with his fist before roaring, If I were ...

There is no meaning to fate If you don't have faith

You are like a garbage man, what will you do with my life story?

The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it cost ...

I am mad, and I embrace it. Madness is part of my heritage.

They're Lares. House gods.""House gods," Percy said. "Like ... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?

That's what counted. It was more than a security system: it was a state of mind. Although Herkmoor had suffered many escape attempts, some extraordinarily ...

How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues? Take him to a library." - Albus Severus Potter

I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop ...

And there were the warm spaces in the music I loved the most, openings through which I could enter and lay my burdens down. There, ...

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people ...

No fucking popcorn? No Junior Mints?

Spend some memorable moments in London, under the eve of exciting surroundings. Let your fantasies come true during the sessions of Oriental massage London. Your ...

I've always thought, if heaven is such a wonderful place, why is entering it so absurdly easy? Confess your sins, ask forgiveness - and that ...

There are rumors about the depraved and perverted practices of the pulchritudinous protestant puritan plutocratic penis-people priesthood, of shadowy bacchanalian polyamorous practices ... I suspect, ...

I don't want to brag or anything, but I'm sorta like a rock star to these people.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp ...

I guess some things never change.

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,regarding his own ...

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background ...

Yet the evidence, from twin studies, from the children of immigrants and from adoption studies, is now staring us in the face: people get their ...

You cannot live without your adrenal hormones and, as you can see from this brief overview, how well you live depends a great deal on ...

I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human ...

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about ...

Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall ...