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Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with ...

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Ask yourself what it is that a code of moral values does to a man's life, and why he can't exist without it, and what ...

I'm one of those people who really wants to do everything. And if I had enough time, I really would.

Psychologist Arthur Aron of SUNY Stony Brook discovered that asking participants in an experiment to share their deepest feelings and beliefs for a single hour ...

Aw, I'm like a proud mother bird watching my daughter fly from the nest. Fly, little bird, fly. Oh no! Don't fall. No, that's the ...

Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? ...

The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. ...

I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.

I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up ...

I will admit I am quite obsessive about the world of anti-ageing.

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

Think carefully before you say them, for once you have taken the black, there is no turning back.

Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order ...

The rich people of this world fear only one thing: death

In the future I man a lighthouse with my wife, daughter, and father-in-law. We send out a great beam of light every night even though ...

No one preached to me ... No one had to ... I wouldn't have listened anyway. I became a believer from a direct encounter with ...

It was a man taking a machine and a machine taking a man into secret places, into the subliminal.

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format ...

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose ...

If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or ...

The Board of Trade Make Do and Mend campaign is intended to help you get the last ounce of wear out of all your clothes

A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.

Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in ...

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing ...

The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she ...

Would I were in an alehouse in London.

[S]atisfying ever-growing energy demand in a sustainable way has become the world's biggest challenge.

Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast.

Like all people with nothing to do, he was very disciplined and stuck religiously to the schedule he had imposed on himself. He

First, my love and thanks to Ben Smith, my Hollywood agent, who has been a true visionary in a job that is often maligned (in ...

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends ...

But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's ...

Sometimes, Dolores, sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang onto.

May my soul forever stay wild and my spirit always be adventurous.

Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their ...

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept ...

There I was, clinging to the scraps of happiness that I could finally feel again: coffee and books and an afternoon with my best friend. ...

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

Yeah? How was I?""You were . . . kind of perfect" I say"Kind of?" Alec throws his hands out to his sides, pretending to be ...

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she ...

It could be the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, and I still wouldn't be able to harvest the fucks to give.

I saw the lake of Hali, thin and blank, without a ripple or wind to stir it, and I saw the towers of Carcosa behind ...

But the pain was old to him, and somehow it had become a part of him. He could bear it and speak of it. It ...

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself ...

In Spain, we mainly use red plum tomatoes, but it is always fun to experiment. Try using a mix of colors or substitute green tomatoes ...

Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.

And what,' he asked the dragons, 'so spurred their zeal?''Vengeance, of course. And Anomandaris.

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You ...

Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.

And Unseen University took tradition very seriously, at least when it remembered to.

So far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know ...

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our ...

Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword ...

When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we ...

We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak.

Rab: Like a wee chip, Burney son?Burney: Stick your chips up your arse!Mary: Heeey, hey, hey, hey - manners.Burney: Please.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

We love them for their unique abique ability to tug at soul, to connect to us in a way that no other person can. Love ...

Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) alongside Bashir's love of Arde Falastin (Land of Palestine).

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is ...

Will you accompany me in this dance?" he said, bowing and holding out his hand. "No, thank you." Miri smiled. The prince frowned and looked ...

Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to ...

All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and ...

In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief must be With me through Eternity, Such thy ...

Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't support ...

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal ...

What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about ...

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can ...

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. ...

There was nothing left but memories and regret. I dreaded them both. They burned like fire, ate through to my core like acid and cut ...

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone.

The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came ...

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.

I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems ... In fact, it would be hard to become ...

You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully ...

Nakedness is strictly forbidden.")

I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia, and not much more. They only want one thing. You must learn to manipulate them, for your own ...

Almost automatic response: "That's just a senseless obsession. It's a false message. I'm going to focus my attention on something else." At this point, the ...

The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into ...

When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators ...