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The warm days of Firestreak are usually good for travellers in the world of Amarillia.
I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I had ...
People are really nice in the world. The majority of every single person I meet is really nice. Some people get excited, and some people ...
One nurse thought I was "brave." I think she was talking about my steely-eyed, grin-and-bear-it kind of attitude. There were no tears, no complaints from ...
It (her wedding dress) was the kind of dress that both Scarlett O'Hara and Princess Diana would have deemed 'over the top'.
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do ...
I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstatRes angusta domi.]
She went to the AutoChef, programmed a vitamin smoothie. And was shocked when that's exactly what she got.
I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a ...
A juicy chicken breast can be the perfect accompaniment to a classic Caesar salad or a club sandwich. It's also easy to cook, and can ...
When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a ...
I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the ...
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with ...
When you look at the mirror, the person you see will be determined by thevision you have, your boldness and the risk you are prepared ...
Those who move forward "with a" happy spirit will find that things alwas work out.
Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on ...
The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds - all reasoning and disputing - ...
What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense ...
The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine ...
Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us;Let us journey to a lonely land I know.There's a whisper on the ...
Desperate courage makes One a majority.
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what ...
I asked Doss if she had no regard for appearancs. She said, 'I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for ...
Ullahbluh! Sehyoh narar, pokehole sann! Manhead very dirty by am anoyato. Like old Dolldy Icon when he cooked up his iggs in bicon. He gatovit ...
We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or ...
I was always the Doubting Thomas of the bunch, and I don't think I was convinced about the Allman Brothers until 'Fillmore East' hit - ...
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air ...
The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes ...
I am talking to a cat. A cat is talking to me.
The thought of Kate having that sort of experience, of another man touching her, created a vague knot in his chest. He'd far rather imagine ...
The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the ...
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.
This time I felt my own face redden. Talking with this woman was like sitting still for a series of slaps, delivered arhythmically so you ...
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the ...
There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.
I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an ...
All artists are crazy.
I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary ...
To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.
Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.
Without drive you will never get anywhere in life.
ADDENDUM: SOMETIMES THE FUTURE IS BULLSHIT
I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I ...
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in ...
Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocalwait. Mr. ...
Immortal honour, endless fame, Attend the Almighty Father's name: The Saviour Son be glorified, Who for lost man's redemption died; And equal adoration be, Eternal ...
Is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.
Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things.
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.
Watching copulating dung-beetles is exciting if you drink enough Red Bull, Jack.
But how can the devil be stopped when he lives inside you?
A friend is someone who helps you hide the body - that
Adiation ... the biggest lobby ... in the world. It's involved in university research ... industries ... the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, ...
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
Dealmaking is to movie people what the tea ceremony is to the Japanese. They are very, very serious about it.
I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. ...
Vor laughed, proud of his place here. He quoted what he'd been taught all his life. I am the pinnacle of humanity - a trustee ...
If you are burned, you are naturally anxious to see what your face looks like as soon as they take the bandages off. In my ...
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. ...
I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I ...
People who attempted to end their lives, no matter how amateurishly they might do so at first, often got better at it, with the result ...
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
Cheerleading was not a hit: "What am I doing here, Mommy? I'm freezing cold and I'm cheering for a bunch of boys to win a ...
He wasn't anti-gun really - he just wasn't pro-being-shot-at.
I wish I could tell him that we're going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead ...
Once I started I couldn't put it down. It was so addictive ... like a train wreck.
I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I ...
I still have a crush on Johnny Depp, and I literally only started dating my husband because he looked like Johnny Depp - and he ...
That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, ...
A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let ...
Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah
My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, ...
You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.
I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. I ...
The Bible was given to us not to increase our knowledge but to change our life.
Things that only a writer would understand - you're writing a character - you tell that character who she or he is and they stop ...
Certainly, one of the greatest achievements of the human intellectual spirit was the Arabic Translation Movement. Over the course of about 100 years, virtually the ...
We imprint our intimacies upon atoms born from an explosion so great it still marks the emptiness of space. A
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.
Librarians often are wild in the sack, just like accountants.
God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.
When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You ...
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the ordinary world.
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
Christianity ... made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition ...
It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.
You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child ...
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, ...
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
The iron ring is worn out by constant use.[Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]
Death looked up angirly, and found himself staring into eyes that were black as the inside of a cat and full of distant stars that ...