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Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful ...

The light was misty and actinic, the sort of light to make Steven Spielberg reach for his copyright lawyer.

I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't ...

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.

Let's go over a little astrography. Geography is the mother of strategy, they say.

You'll have to excuse Harry. He has what I call 'chauffeured child syndrome.' " "He's been driven all his life?" "That is correct. He has ...

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected ...

If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into ...

All the Armes of England will not arme feare.

Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.

When is death not within ourselves? ... Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old.

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. ...

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll crotch; I've got ...

I really like my eyes, nose, and lips. I especially like my nose. I really like my lips too. I think my lips are sexy.

Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who are corrupt tend ...

The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules ...

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

When the time comes,' Lief said, determinedly drowning her out, 'I will follow Adin's example, and marry for love.' He glanced at her. 'if the ...

Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that ...

When I stood up there as a pinch hitter, I honestly believed I was the best hitter in the game. That's the only attitude to ...

Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.

People say that things like this happen in slow motion, as though you suddenly become an astronaut in the antigravity chamber of your own life. ...

I absolutely love Italian food. So pizza - like a margherita pizza, penne arbiota, a glass of wine. That's like my dream.

The NAA way is to operate from a servant's heart, and service will be returned to you exponentially.

I try to be as normal as I can.

'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian ...

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the ...

I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to ...

Man is all symmetrie,Full of proportions, one limbe to another,And all to all the world besides:Each part may call the farthest, brother:For head with foot ...

We're looking at ideas to remodel Arrowhead Stadium. It's 30 years old and it's not a good American soccer stadium. We're looking at ways to ...

The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is ...

He didn't know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite ...

You are part of the fabric of your personal and professional community, country, and world. When you actualize your potentials in your own unique way, ...

Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn't necessarily mean I have a target.

But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, ...

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

Love is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens.

He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of ...

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find ...

How long that song seemed - longer than life.

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that ...

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a ...

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles.[Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.Love ...

Why are you doing this?" Amanvah whispered, her accent thick like her mother's, but every word clear. "My mother would not be so kind to ...

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it ...

... Aedion Ashryer let himself be led into the darkness ... He did not mind dying.Though he still wished he'd gotten a chance to see ...

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."

Interestingly, some of the worst anti-Irish discrimination came from the Scotch-Irish, who wanted to make clear that they were a different group from the impoverished ...

On my own or with a friend, I'm a shopaholic, and I particularly love the cleaning aisle in the supermarket. But when I'm with my ...

Sometimes strengers put a cute smile on our face

I laughed. "What the hell are you learning from Ebony?" "How to be a strong black woman?" I

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, ...

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at ...

Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes

Like God and McDonalds, Aggi was everywhere

I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought that's what ...

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm ...

Sick and sicker and sickest. What was real and what was fake? Was Amma really sick and needing my mother's medicine, or was the medicine ...

It isn't a question of any beauty,' said Maggie; 'it's only a question of the quantity of truth.' 'Oh the quantity of truth!' the Prince ...

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.

I nod and smile and smile and nod, and when she turns away, I form a gun with my hand, place it to my temple, ...

In a couple of days after our arrival, it already became clear that our things were lost forever and would never be found. They put ...

I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.

All you need is love,But a little bit of chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Too easy to conclude, with a private sneer, that men were simple. Granted, had they been strangers, they might well be circling and sniffing each ...

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - ...

A drop of ink may make a million think.

It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. We are ...

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...

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 ...

I didn't see why loving someone had to have so much agony attached to it. It felt like a series of fresh cuts in the ...

Happiness and achieving our dreams is a matter of believing it is possible and having a positive frame of mind.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

Why me?" He said finally. "Are you on some sort of mission to fuck up my life?""I try my best to avoid you.""You're doing a ...

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger!!

Even when you see it coming, there's no avoiding the inevitable.

For women in this era, it seemed that marriage was the easiest way of acquiring the basic freedoms of adulthood. Things

Then, as they began to decline, they all experienced some peculiar similarities: an inordinate emphasis on sports and entertainment, a fixation with lifestyles of the ...

I do feel like, now, approaching fifty, I am definitely at a crossroads and having to reevaluate things and look at things. It's time for ...

Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.

I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable ...

It's not simply about reading fairytales as you grow older. It's about still finding the magic in fairytales when the world tells you you're too ...

It's not rocking the boat, Dad. It's called communication. You're allowed to ask questions. Other people do it all the time. Other people don't live ...

To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and everyone else. They [Americans] were almost ...

Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less ...

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: ...

I am not handsome but I can give my hand to someone who need help ... Because beauty is required in heart not in face ...

Do you realize how many abusers are walking around unpunished? How many rape charges are dropped because of 'insufficient' evidence, or how many date rapists ...

I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.