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Have you ever put finger, algea-filled lake-water, or shampoo in there? Yeah, that gets your eyes screaming in pain pretty quick, doesn't it? Unless you're ...
Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do, somedon't ever want to.
If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, ...
The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and ...
The facts shouldn't get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you ...
Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.
...because life is short and you too are thirsty.
Surprise is the practice of accepting the unexpected interruption, and the practice of leaving enough space in the day for something to happen that isn't ...
Is there ever a time you're not an arrogant bastard?""Is there ever a time you're not a difficult bitch?""No.""Then I guess that makes us perfectly ...
The West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which ...
And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets ...
Who gives to Aristaeus honey;Or wine to Bacchus, or TriptolemusEarth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - ...
A friend asked the author,If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so ...
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, ...
We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.
We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.
Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a ...
You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others ...
God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every ...
After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie ...
I've had nannies and au pairs. I have tutors and a trainer and a shrink. I know paid-nice. It comes with gritted teeth.
Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that ...
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to ...
Put the stores of the alforjas into requisition, and all three sitting down lovingly and sociably, they made a luncheon and a supper of it ...
I was so mad, I reached into the drawer for her fake sushi eraser and put it in my pocket. Serves her right for being ...
It's simple, really," Alaric Wulf said. " Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness." Jon nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We know. He's got a castle ...
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because ...
Jorum had called to the boys to come watch the miracle of birth. The "miracle of birth" was actually pretty disgusting, Arthas thought. He
It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
Is that a nautilus?" he asked. "Close, but no. It's an ammonite." "An ammonite? What's an ammonite? Sounds like an Old Testament people overdue for ...
Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!
Glory, causes, careers, and love mean nothing on an empty stomach. Because of food, I lost my self-respect; because of food, I suffered the humiliation ...
Killing demons is like peeing on yourself; everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. Annr, guard, Zearlach city.
Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego ...
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas
I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look ...
This is a very insulting tributeBut take it in good heartCongratulations Mom and DadYou've reached Silver together ... apartLots of love etc
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from ...
Don't think too much. Descartes may come to existence when he thinks, but you perish and vanish when you think.
If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look ...
I thought I would have a heart attack just looking at you.
Believe me, Athelstan, you can wrap a dog's turd in a cloth of gold but it remains a dog's turd.
No matter how much it takes in, this hunger never goes away ... Because it desires nothing else.
The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the ...
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to ...
So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 ...
Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.
Idealism, however impractical, gives a meaning to our existence.
Valour begot respect, whether in life or in the aftermath of death.
If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and ...
Most of us are unaware of the words we use on a regular basis. We weren't taught that the words we regularly use to describe ...
Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.
From the moment I fell down that rabbit hole I've been told where I must go and who I must be. I've been shrunk, stretched, ...
I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across ...
The VoiceThere is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,"I feel this is right for me,I know that this is wrong."No teacher, preacher, ...
My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic ...
Get you dead ass out of the sarcophagus and follow along," Tern muttered. "And no yelling for guards, and no continuing forward when we stop ...
Commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, ...
As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. ...
August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.
Ah, Zora, you are so naive," the fire fairy said with a hearty chuckle. "You have no idea what happened to them, do you? You ...
Damn, Ty, I'm getting slizzard," Mel says, sending everyone into bouts of laughter. "Dumb ass, you don't have a G6. You can't get slizzard in ...
I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me,
What we learn from the story of Adam and Eve is simple. What we can have is never what we want. And when we can ...
A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, themore different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended ...
If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before you!
I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I ...
I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.
Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.
A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.
Echo, you look..." He let his eyes wander down my body and then slowly back up. A wicked grin spread across his face. "Appetizing.""Like a ...
Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on.-Annik Marchand
Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.
Then she'll know I'll want to knock her senseless if she so much as looks at me.
Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates ...
Old pain is an anchor.
Painting is silent poetry.
Max smiled, the smile of comfort, the one you give to someone who's made a big mistake and is suffering the consequences, the one that ...
The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth ...
I open my mouth. I want o say: I'm breaking, and i need someone to hold me together.But no sound comes out.
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, ...
Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.
Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.
Back in the past metaphysical realisation needed only the will of realisation. Later realisation also needed initiation. Even later initiation already presupposed preparation. Today even ...
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, ...
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.
Smile at me, baby, and I'll walk on hot coals for you, no matter how many times you wake me up in the middle of ...
Learn wider, grow wiser!
Well, I am terribly concerned for your health. One simply should not weigh so much at your age. Lady Maccon poked at a sagging carrot ...
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
Fortune and love favour the brave.[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the ...