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The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the ...

[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in ...

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...

Somewhat of goodness, something trueFrom sun and spirit shining throughAll faiths, all worlds, as through the darkOf ocean shines the lighthouse spark,Attests the presence everywhereOf ...

[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range of wolf experience; ...

All the support from all my friends, All my family over the years, I appreciate it.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot ...

I guess I don't see what's so insulting about being called a girl. The two of you seem to do okay when you're not biting ...

I could never run from the half of me that danced in the dark.

Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.

From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.

Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll be much closer ...

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

On the surface, everyday life has become much more comfortable than ever before. Yet people still lead lives of quiet desperation. The source of this ...

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

Do dead man dream?The dead themselves are silent on the matter

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but ...

I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new ...

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam ...

The bhel-puri stall was a sculptured landscape with its golden pyramid of sev, the little snow mountains of mumra, hillocks of puris, and, in among ...

She looked up at him with a grin. "I have a hard time picturing you with a house and a white picket fence." He shrugged. ...

In my state, two women who came to the U.S. as 'mail-order brides' were killed by abusive husbands. They had risked everything to come to ...

Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space ...

A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back - bruised and aching - as he continues ...

I'm such a fan of anime and manga to this day, but I never really like got to know all the characters and everything, so ...

Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

You mean nonhuman. Inhuman is an adjective, I said, as I rose from the lawn and padded softly around the left side of the house ...

Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But what are their ...

Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international ...

A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to ...

To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has ...

He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army ...

People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.

Hung verdict would have meant anger against previous govt; Clear verdict to BJP shows people voted for hope and aspiration.

Someday I'll marry you, Miracle. And maybe someday after that, I'll deserve you.

The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms.

Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and horny ...

Life may be a grand folly, as you say, but it is harder to appriciate the joke when you're always the butt of it.

To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshinesuch things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and ...

Try not to be so happy, mumler Agis, the spice situation in Denmark is a disaster.

The hand of Amalek is against the throne of Jehovah. Exodus 17:16, margin.

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise ...

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed ...

We do not believe that capitalism, or any economic system, is the cause of female oppression, nor do we believe that female oppression will disappear ...

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no ...

I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never ...

The solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to ...

If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get ...

I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; ...

We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom ...

185. It Is Getting So Dark I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like.

You won't find me dancing in a club at night but you will find me climbing mountains to see the sunrise, with a glimmer of ...

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

I felt the kind of acute anticipation that a child might experience at a carnival, where each lurid attraction incites fantastic speculations, while unexpected desires ...

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested ...

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Her eyes are shockingly black - shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because she's wearing smoky gray eyeshadow and dark eyeliner to ...

None of the Aldens knew that they were the first real callers Miss Gray had had for many years.

Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating ...

Alucard snaked an arm possessively around his shoulders and brought his lips to the prince's neck, just below his ear. Rhy actually shivered."You are far ...

De wijze heeft geen onwrikbare beginselen. Hij past zich aan anderen aan.(Free translation into English: The wise man has no firm principles. He adapts to ...

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of ...

I do find life difficult at times ... and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy ... I don't think one can have great ...

Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly ...

In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.

Did he, like most men, possess the superpower of knowing just when we women have turned a corner, only to swoop in and fuck shit ...

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable ...

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

At the age of 41, I'm glad I still have hair.

I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of ...

I look like a man in a death camp.Iam.still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, Iwill never miss the crowd.

I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of ...

Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

Percy must have perceived, early in her marriage, that her husband's lechery was compulsive and incurable, but she was determined, like any other lover, to ...

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety ...

I think that the pageant world overall is pretty spectacular, it just makes you feel good about yourself and leaves you with great friends.

Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and ...

No one has, or ever will, be able to experience or express your singular point of view, which is why it is so important, both ...

I get angry with none. Will a mother get angry with her children? Will the ocean send back the waters to the several rivers.Advaita Philosophy

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

To politicians, perception trumps reality.

Camille's tear-streaked face flashed for a moment with triumph. "I knew it," she said. "Whatever else you might say, whatever lies you tell, you hate ...

And it's a temptation for any intelligent person, and especially for perfectionists such as the ancients and ourselves, to try to murder the primitive, emotive, ...

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine ...

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in ...

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing.

Often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy ...

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that ...

When I record in a studio I don't use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full ...

When you finally let go of the person you used to be, you get to discover the person you are now and the person you ...

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it ... its appeal is permanent.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never ...

I'm enchanted by your beauty, my lady. Welcome aboard. You make a most welcome addition to our acerbic company ... a lovely-smelling one, too. (Vik)

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth ... ...

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of ...