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This is the story of how I never stopped running. This is the story of how,when the wolves knocked, I met them at the door ...
When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't ...
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.
Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in ...
You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.
Sometimes, like the bird that burns to ashes and then rises again renewed, the phoenix, we have to burn.
Philosophy is easy... who on the fucking world has said that it's easy... it's not about logic... but and aboutnon logic... once enable logic... once ...
Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that ...
This is where dad burried the little raccoon.I don't even know he existed a few days ago and now he's gone forever. It's like I ...
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I'd like to know it's more than love at first ...
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
Brahma and AiravataLong ago in lands of golden sandBrahma turned to Saraswatiand gently kissed her inked hand ...
[My] rheumatism has come in again"Ivan, cynically, "The devil have rheumatism!""Why not, if I sometimes put on fleshly form? I put on fleshly form and ...
I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.
Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to ...
If AC voltage drops below 105-volts or goes above 130-volts you should turn electronic equipment and appliances off until the power is restored.
Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill ...
And whence is courage: the unanswered question, the resolute doubt, - dumbly calling, deafly listening - that in misfortune, even death, encourages others and in ...
Need and want that His Word has promised and believe you receive them when you ask for them. Then you will have whatever it is ...
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap ...
In my mother's house there is still God."Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun
The point where you become free not to kill, not to exploit, not to destroy, not to compete, because you are no longer afraid of ...
Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and ...
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on ...
Astrophil and Stella," he said, taking my hand. "The name 'Astrophil' is derived from two Greek words that, when combined, mean 'star-lover.'""So, what does that ...
The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.
Can you do it today? The notion of just trying to take each day as it came. The commitment to the present moment, and only ...
Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ...
So ... this is the dark dungeon where the very angry Tristan sleeps?""No. This is the dark dungeon where the very dangerous Tristan keeps himself ...
My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing ... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go ...
V.L.A.D.: Vampire League Against Discrimination.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph ...
Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.
Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?
You're dishonoured, somehow. You've sinned. Sinned against the aspidistra.""You talk a great deal about aspidistras," said Ravelston."They're a dashed important subject," said Gordon.
Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.
The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything ...
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Robert's problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance.
She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to ...
One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but ... " (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in ...
Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, ...
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
When you hear music so beautiful it gives you chills, those are angel wings brushing against you.
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
I can see time, whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.
More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. ...
Of death I am as certain as any mortal, Ammerlin, but defeat is certain only in despair.
No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
Someday her child would be a stranger to her, and she would be strange to him ... but not as strange as her own mother ...
Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're ...
By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.
Adjusting to a new path and a new direction will require new qualities and strengths, and these qualities are always exactly what we need to ...
By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, ...
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works ...
Beauty is about Accepting yourself for who you are. It's about feeling secure about yourself. It's about feeling so blessed everyday that we are given ...
Don't let them take away our little king, Froi. Not the Avanosh people or Bestiano. I'm begging you, Froi." That she had to speak the ...
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I'm writing about is me. It seems wiser to ...
And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the words carved about ...
So stop fighting. Let the noise go white. Let it be like water. And float.
And there, among the ruined splendor of Skyline Palace, Adamat saw a god weep for the hero of Adro.
In just three years, Kickstarter surpassed the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts as the largest backer of arts projects in the United States.9
When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that ...
I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other ...
I want to be a positive influence in little girls' eyes. Little girls need to be confident and grow up with a healthy state of ...
Your belief in yourself, is the Secret to Achieving anything you want.
Our lives should be written in stone. Paper is too temporary - too easy to rewrite.
Audrey, I need you to say it." "Say what?" she asks slowly. "Say what's written all over your face. Say what's on your fingers every ...
Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent ...
Jazz to me is a living music.
Autistic children are very difficult to take care of, especially severely autistic ones. When I was 4, I had almost no language; when I was ...
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about ...
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far ...
Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to ...
Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?"His eyes flared ...
It's so silly not to be nice.
All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.
Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering.
Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.
Haven't I been worth five years' excellent gossip to you? Are you not all waiting agog to see me seize my sister-in-law by the hair? ...
Caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's ...
This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.
Toad's ancestral home, won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.
Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty of people like ...
The best way to love your man, is to help him rise, let him feel his worth so strongly through your eyes; that he has ...
God is a lonely place without steak.
Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.
Moby Dick, the Great White Whale, tore off Ahab's leg at the knee, when Ahab was attacking him. Quite right, too. Should have torn off ...
An acron grew into an oak tree, didn't it?
Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, our eyes fail before ...
In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of ...
Captain, sir,' called Coster from the rear of the shed. 'Cleared to shit.''Proceed,' Fa'ared called back.The Preceptor glared at Coster. 'Can you not wait?
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of ...
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I ...