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Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. ...
A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your ...
[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more ...
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only immortality that you ...
I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' ...
More highly favoured are we than David in Adullam, or Jonah beneath his gourd, for none can invade or destroy our shelter. The person of ...
The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
It is by the Lord's stripes that we are healed, and it is through our own stripes that we, too, are given the authority for ...
...ideology has the function of presenting exploitation in a favorable light to the exploited, as advantageous to the disadvantaged.
Rob, do me a favour, tell your angry boss that I will see her and that when I do, I will be cleaning that mouth ...
If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.
Jenny heldher breath wondering whether her matzo would pass muster.
Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with that Old World ...
The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books ...
And what about yellowback dogs who'd use children to kill the whole world from ambush, my friend? The whole universe?" The Weasel blinked at that, ...
There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to ...
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There ...
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.
I'm dazzled by your facility. In ten days you'll have written six stories! I don't understand it ... I'm like one of those old aqueducts: ...
An artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we ...
At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.
You're immortal as long as you live.
If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals ...
Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and ...
If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must ...
Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.
Chapter 1, verse 4, he said. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why ...
I can count the number of great Cabernets I made at Beaulieu only by taking off my socks and shoes, but I can count the ...
Sometimes when you try too hard," Aqamdax explained, "things get tangled, and the only way to untangle them is to let go.
Every hundred years or so a new Grim Anoukie is made; the Parish Priest at the time picks a victim, usually someone who has pissed ...
When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.
Finley trusts Barney's advice. Barney has never steered him wrong.
Anachron's Law:There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it.Anachron's Corollary:There is no truth which is so obvious that everyone ...
Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature, and the world ...
Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.
It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we all make to get ...
I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.
Thurgood Marshall because of his experience of discrimination did bring a special perspective to the court. That's what his colleagues on the court so valued ...
Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is ...
Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,
A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.
All good things come to those who wait.
We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] ...
If you work hard, and give up certain things, and yes, resort to bribery now and then, you'll be an arborist, or a sea anemonist, ...
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.
I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don't need any more information about myself. I get more ...
Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.
No matter how we grieve over our bad luck, nothing will happen. We have to smile and believe that tomorrow will be better than today.
It was the very worst kind of Banbury-Road house, depressing, with laurels. The front door was opened by a slut. I had never seen a ...
You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not
In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your ...
It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him;
Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a ...
What is the girl version of a tool? An accessory? Yes! That's what she is. A safe, simple accessory.
Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.
Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature ...
The false face had been handsome, yes, but consciously so. As though he was too aware of his own attractivensss, something she found distinctly unappealing.
I was vaguely aware that we'd been archenemies a few minutes before, and now he had me on my back on the sand.
Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestonechildhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go ...
Another summer day has come and gone away in Paris and Rome, but I wanna go home ... Home-Alan Chang; Amy Foster-Gillies; Michael Buble
Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is ...
The Earth never stops spinning, Abby, no matter how fast you run in the opposite direction.
This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to ...
As Boettner so aptly observes, for the Calvinist, the atonement "is like a narrow bridge which goes all the way across the stream; for the ...
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.
I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could ...
Man up, Akane. World-wide destruction or talk to your mother." When she didn't answer right away, he shook her."What? I'm thinking about it.
The three stages of life: youth, middle age, and 'You're looking good, Mr. Keating.
My favorite movie, one of 'em is [Notorious]. I love Scarface as well. I've got a lot of mob movies.
Are you all right?""Oh my god! I phased!""Are you all right?""Are you?""It was strange.""I can't believe I phased just then! That's never ... it was ...
Nature is well-spring of life.
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me ...
A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in ...
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. ... The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, ...
The difficulty, my asclepid, is not to govern people, but to make them govern themselves,
I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.
Annella would sooner spill my blood than court me. Furthermore, I like my women a little less spirited. I don't want to have to fear ...
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
If you drop a rose in the Hudson River at its mysterious source in the Adiron dacks, think of all the places it journeys by ...
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred ...
You know, Uri, there's something seriously wrong with me. (Acheron)And you're just now figuring this out? Damn, you're the poster child for slow learning. (Urian)
If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.
Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of ...
T is not faces, not color, not appearnces that matter. - Soren
In interpreting a work of art, we draw upon our own aims and endeavors, inform it with a meaning that has its origin in our ...
For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of ...
America is still AmeriKKKa. rather we like it or not
Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my ...
There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.
Atty's eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!
When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal.
Don't be afraid of being the person you have become.
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of ...
Get a job writing fortune cookies instead. I could try to write really American ones. Already, I've jotted down a few of them. Objects create ...