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As far as Aricimboldi was concerned, Isou was a 'Romanian fuck-stick.
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from ...
I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.
None of the books were in alphabetical order, which made it necessary to cock my head sideways to read each one of the spines. By ...
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from ...
I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may ...
I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from ...
Laia is curled in a ball on the other, one hand on her armlet, fast asleep. "You are my temple", I murmur as I knee ...
My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites ...
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Today, however, every company has become a de facto publisher, creating content that's valued by those they want to reach.
Hello," I said stiffly.His smile split into a full grin."So nice to see you again.""Always a pleasure." My lie sounded robotic, but hopefully it was ...
We cannot change the wind, we can only adjust our sails.
Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in "atheist evangelism," determined ...
Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about ...
He curled his claw into a fist. "I'd like to shove a stake up that bastard's ass."Adam's lip curled. "Remind me not to piss you ...
Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")
Do you want to stand here talking about the car, or are you going to get in it?" CeeCee asked. I was the person with ...
The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting ...
I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.
You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.
Oh, yeah, looks like things have been super easy for you this far. Look, high school is hell for most people. It's one of the ...
Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were imparting a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts ...
I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in ...
When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day ...
I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and ...
What's your name, pictsie?' 'Awf'ly Wee Billy Bigchin Mac Feegle, mistress.' 'You're very small, aren't you?' 'Only for my height, mistress.
For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a ...
There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some ...
When I look up, I'm surprised to find myself in front of the old building. My feet must have gone on autopilot. I'm like one ...
A pause; it endured horribly.
I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required ...
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.
Thereby gain much leisure, and save much trouble, and therefore at every action a man must privately by way of admonition suggest unto himself, What? ...
We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
If Abraham Lincoln were alive now, he'd roll over in his grave.
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by ...
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you ...
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter ... I am so unlucky.
And she'd feel sorry for the kids, but not in a way that made her want to help, just in a way that made her ...
There is no such thing as a future decision. There are only present decisions that affect the future.
A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you ...
Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?""Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?""No. I was unconscious.
As a child, Zaphod had been diagnosed with ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention Deficit Hyperflactulance Disorder ...
Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.
I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who ...
You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I ...
But I was thinking about this, the Obamas want to adopt a stray dog from the pound. And I think that is admirable. I believe ...
Tis rushing now adown the spout,And gushing out below,Half frantic in its joyousness,And wild in eager flow.The earth is dried and parched with heat,And it ...
Only those who are able to adapt to changing scenarios will continue to survive and prosper. Success is directly proportional to the degree of positive ...
Don't worry, even if you fall over! It's all right. You can just pick yourself up again!When you fall over, make the most of the ...
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the ...
It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died ...
Acadia "Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." Homer, The ...
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful ...
Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has ...
I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a ...
The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.
Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they ...
If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that ...
We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous
I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
Give your hands to Him for His work, your feet to walk His path, and your ears to hear Him speak
I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be ...
We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars glued together with magic and music and words.
We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact.""And like everyone who's had enough," ...
It's like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other ...
Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?
The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London ...
E canchis amnia.Everything from shells.
I'm more concerned, just as you used to be, with the world as a riddle than with the riddles in the world. I'm more concerned ...
I think everybody gets their recognition sometime down the road, and I have never been one to seek it. Besides, it has been that way ...
But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
We can live in and from the Nature and these Will accept us.Wij kunnen in en van de natuur leven en deze accepteert ons.
These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic ...
Young women say I helped them come out of their shells
System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
You might call them soft, because they're very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they're soft the way the ocean is ...
A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds.'Why?' someone asked him.'To squeeze out the rain.
You had to draw lines, and that choice was in itself dangerous; all boundaries had a double edge, were like swords that could always be ...
I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month ...
It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.
What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.
Remember who you are. Realize what you are. Do both those things, or you'll either be completely useless-or too dangerous to help anyone.
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non aequus animus solatium inveniat.There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for ...
What He said He would do He always did, and the things we already see fulfilled in His Word simply remind us that what He ...
Companionship isn't about experiencing the great moments together. True companionship is the other stuff. Sharing a sincere doing nothing.
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a ...
Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot ...
We became acutely aware of the profound healing that is needed in our species. We knew with conviction that what we were doing, as women ...