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Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good one. Don't chippy ...

If you wanted pomp and circumstance, you dealt with the vampires. If you wanted ceremony, the witches it was. But for plain old straight forward ...

She say her head feel like its full of little white men with hammers.

It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.

Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord.

It was an occasion that undoubtedly did more credit to Mr. Deacon's social adroitness than to my own, because I was still young enough to ...

I can't remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to ...

The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.

I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.

From the moment she'd first seen him in the Fontaine ballroom, she'd been lost. The passionate kiss a week later had destroyed her. Even now ...

Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what ...

We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that ...

At least," Mother said, "that's the story Aunt Esther tells." "What do you mean?" I asked. "Isn't it true?" "Stories are never 'true'," Mother said. ...

Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?Athena's answer : What an interesting idea ... ...

Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.

Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. ...

Ebenezar blinked . Then he turned his face to me his expression clearly asking whether or not I was out of my damned mind . ...

The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I ...

I like it in Manchester. I thought it was going to be much colder, but it is not too bad. And my wife and son ...

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I ...

Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light.

And what else is it that men seek in life but power? If they want money, it is but for the power that attends it, ...

You. You're home now.

I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself ...

When I finish a song, I thank God for bringing me through. You have to press on and know your calling. That's what I've been ...

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.

There he saw a woman. He recognised her. She smiled. His heart stood still. Aliena

There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder

No-one can do everything for the environment, but every-one can do something to make a better world.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and ...

The most seductive sin, I suppose, is passing judgment on others, and the next must be acting out of one's anger when one has the ...

Author Neale Donald Walsch says, So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you ...

It will be better to spent our energy on reality; the tangible facts, not thoughts of the past.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.

Achievement unlocked.

You never know what you can handle until if comes time to handle it. The less you think about it the better you'll handle it.

I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as ...

As the natural coherence of the world vanishes, there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.

Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the ...

If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means ...

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ...

The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to ...

Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail ...

Val0 = Wire.read(); val1 = Wire.read(); channelReading = int(val0)*16 + int(val14); analogReadingArduino = channelReading * 1023 /4095; ...

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of ...

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact ...

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

There're going to be animals in God's Heaven on Earth, a New Heaven and a New Earth! God's not going to have His Creation defeated. ...

Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. ...

I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like ...

It is true that "atheism" is a negative word, but so is "nonfiction." They are double negatives. Both words tell you that what you are ...

My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day ...

Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of ...

I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.

Extroversion: response to reward Neuroticism: response to threat Conscientiousness: response to inhibition (self-control, planning) Agreeableness: regard for others Openness to experience: breadth of mental associations

I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.

Some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, ...

The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at ...

December, 2011 Acknowledgments

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,Ang'ring itself and others.

Please", I scoff. "Dot-com jokes are so two visions ago. Stay on your toes, Angotti, or you're off the team.

Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness ...

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy.

'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would give it a ...

I really need to restructure my life so I can spend more time reading abstracts and less time punching dinosaurs."- Atomic Robo

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest ...

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan ...

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

You weren't afraid of me when I was Wolf," he said. "Why are you afraid of Nathan?""He's got big feet!""What?"An insulted-sounding arrroooo came from the ...

Lord Henry looked serious for some moments, 'It is perfectly monstrous,' he said at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one ...

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.

That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time.

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

Something as important and central and encompassing as empathy can't be all bad. I think empathy plays a role in intimate relationships, where you might ...

I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined ...

I briefly consider keying her precious BMW, but quite frankly, I don't have the energy to go all Carrie Underwood on her ass. I still ...

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you ...

There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires ...

You have to move so you don't die. You have to move so your brain doesn't atrophy. You have to move so that you look ...

She opened one eye. "The goddess Artemis is going to talk to the supreme god Zeus ... about me?" "Yup." She closed her eyes again. ...

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Par exemple! I never had to ask. You were always there under my feet, like a troublesome cat." "You mean like an adoring dog. And ...

I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're my favorite artist." ...

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's ...

61I am prepared to ... assert that inspiration has something in common with a convulsion, and that every sublime thought is accompanied by a more ...

And watched Alan Rickman act up a storm in Private Lives. Someone once said that this highly mannered actor had made a career out of ...

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would ...

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.