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He was always very kind and considerate to anybody below him," recalled Harold Cherniss. "But not at all to people who might be considered his ...

Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the ...

The public is a part of my real life.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

The first encounter report had come from some weak-tea heiligenschein type charting the edges of the quantum information paradox in realities with anisotropic causalities. (Kids ...

'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.

Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.

Tagged by a whiny little vamp. Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, ...

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind ...

Never be ashamed of where you've been, only the moment you stop trying.

My dear, I am worried about you. It seems to me" - dreamily; she was not alarmed - "that you are in a muddle.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate ...

At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful ...

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you ...

I was with the first Venusian expedition, under the leadership of Admiral Carfax, in 1977.

I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara. The reality is I shall ...

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman ... ...

Delayed gratification helps to limit the animalistic desire of human flesh.

Life's a little bit too crazy for my liking right now.

Don't you know Im still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after ...

Go on a date or something, you need to get a life,

I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ...

A strong woman with a beautiful smile is attractive, but a strong woman with a beautiful mind is addictive.

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about ...

Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding ...

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life.

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 ...

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his ...

My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful ...

Jude was good. But he let his fear and jealousy get to him." Daniel shrugged. "'Fear leads toanger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to ...

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in ...

You will need seed money, so begin saving for your book. Don't give up. Also, write down the ideas that you have right away so ...

Now, a lot of people may be surprised at that, but I'm very dedicated to working out. Usually, it's running. It clears my mind, totally. ...

Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.

There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to ...

Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late ... We shall one day ...

I don't enjoy going out anymore It's such a pain. It's everyone saying, 'Let's do a deal! Can I have a picture?' I'm just, like, ...

I'm not a person who believes that Broadway is the only place. I think there's lots of work that goes on outside of Broadway and ...

This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he ...

A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. ...

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around ...

The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about ...

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a ...

But I have no sex feelings about you, and I kind of feel the sleeping-together thing is just odd. So we're not doing the fairy ...

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for ...

I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to ...

Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.

Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, ...

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!

Learn to appreciate the things you have in the life you're living. It is your present.

After Ehud, Shamgar son of Anath became judge. He delivered Israel by striking down 600 Philistines with an oxgoad.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated ... ...

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the ...

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

When I see the need for Divine teaching and how hungry people are to hear it, I am atremble to be off and running throughout ...

Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.

What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing ...

You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder.

A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which ...

Em. Are you the Loch Ness Monster?" Archie stuttered shuffling back a step. "Aghhh! M, M, Monster. Monster." Gordon shrieked, he turned his huge body ...

Many researchers do feel that humankind may have to face another Great Cleansing, such as the Great Flood of world mythology. Again, numerous UFO contactees ...

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because ...

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was ...

Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain.

But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat, "we're all mad here. I'm mad. ...

I don't consider myself above the law, I consider myself above the principles. ~ Aarush Kashyap

When you are moving toward an objective," said Petrus, "it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is the road that teaches ...

If you had to choose an oil ... it would have to be lavender essential oil, because it is antibacterial and antiviral. So, it's great ...

Creative Cloud is Adobe re-imagining itself amid a world of these three transformations - cloud, multiscreen and social computing - which are all happening at ...

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike ...

Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country ...

She's hot and cold, but damn, when she's hot, it's scorching, and when she's cold, it's arctic.

I ask myself, "Why am I so serious?" Everyone else asks me, "Why are you such a joker?

The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.

Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation!

Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will ...

It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.

Hmm, What did I love? I think all the scents. Mama's lilac trees, and the wild iris in the fields, and rain on the breeze ...

Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the ...

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no ...

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit ...

Climbed that roost, alighted right there. Made mush of his head for the onlooker bears.A two-pronger her prize, a meat most rare. Do-gooders will pay. ...

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty ...

He's smaller than me, did you see him? He looked like a noodle next to me.

I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

He often repeated something Father Abrahan said to him once, how faith is ever young, how faith, unlike the rest of us, does not age.