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You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

The section of Aramaeans that pressed its way from the Euphrates southward, and drove the Edomites out of Petra, was afterwards known as Nabataean.

Big government is the most corrupt industry in America.

What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, ...

I think a lot of times there is a tendency in Washington to make rules because of something that was adverse or fraud or something ...

Finally, we can accept this stunning, irrevocable truth: Our Lord can lift us from deep despair and cradle us midst any care. We cannot tell ...

Vishous to Qhuinn: Listen, I gotta go. I need both hands to hold my gut as I laugh my ass off attcha. Later.

Let the die be cast.[Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a ...

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.

Bleed a cold but feast a fever.

When they touched it was like touching her own body. From childhood they had been the same height; their arms and legs and hands were ...

Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible ...

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

In America when someone asks me my nationality, I can't just say American. I have to go back generations, elaborate on there in Europe my ...

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's ...

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went ...

I don't believe in science. Science is our defense against belief.

No woman should build her life waiting for a man to come along and save her. It's a tragic waste of brains and talent.

I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. ...

Once again Anastasia briefly returned to me the sensation of happiness. Then it all dissipated, leaving me nonetheless a particle of the pleasant and shining ...

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular ...

Life is a spiritual splendid journey.

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically ...

I have acute pancreatitis.""I thought it was just average looking.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so that ...

That's my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene,good-humored smile. "If I complain of anything it's only that I'm not caughtenough, to ...

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and actupon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking andsubsequent actions.

Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds, blue for the ...

The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop ...

Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me ...

I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck ...

That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

I'm a pretty open person. Like, if I have good sex, then the next day I'm going to tell everyone I know about it.

I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as 'shots fired,' and funny ad hominem attacks.

We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the ...

No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less. / Content in our connectedness / ...

Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on ...

The balding headstonesof the others - quarantined from their own mothers & sisters & daughters - I wondered if they, like us, were strangealloys of ...

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact ...

If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not ...

The killing of dangerous Rioters, by any private Persons, who cannot otherwise suppress them, or defend themselves from Them, inasmuch as every private Person seems ...

Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

A pen name is a nickname.

In love, no question is ever preposterous.

I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed!

There are some people...who might feel that such practices are misguided, like trying to wield heaven's powers on earth. And yet it was only in ...

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a ...

My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. ...

To attain your goal, you must know how to overcome battles and challenges.

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when ...

So maybe it was just as well that my companion was more like Mulder. A coked-out Mulder with a lot of weapons, who knew that ...

The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got ...

You get angry, you punch someone in the face. Simple. Direct. Bloody. Fun!

It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on ...

I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to uplift. The underlying ...

Would it ever, ever leave? I had become used to the ache now; it was with me all the time, and never seemed to lessen. ...

Let me use their own terminology against them. They aborted a child in the 200th trimester.

There is a phenomenon called Trail Magic, known and spoken of with reverence by everyone who hikes the trail, which holds that often when things ...

He's a moody creature,isn't he?" she said to the bird. Auntie Em gave one impatient squawk, the extent of her vocabulary."Sounds like she got up ...

I pulled out my phone as I hurried along and texted Abby, U OK? I had to stop while I texted because I am not ...

I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it.""It's very zingy," I agreed.

It was V-day and I was stuck at home while the guy I was dating was at an Anti-Valentine's Day party. How wrong was that? ...

The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; ...

We all know the artfulness with which a dropped coin hides itself, and the job we have to find it again. There are thoughts which ...

An inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship.

The best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people's opinions are just that - opinions. Regardless ...

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some ...

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at ...

Undoubtedly, the biggest misconception about me is that I'm some staunch conservative, blind, rightwing hardcore Republican who doesn't want to hear anything from the other ...

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires ...

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more ...

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

If you really wanna save yourself, you gotta be willing to throw someone else a line, grab onto someone else and save them, help them, ...

I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty ...

To effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.

Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he ...

Let's both be good, and truthful, and kind to each other, and let's be happy together and have fun always.

When the day comes, I'll get up at his funeral and break a giant stick. Then I'll head to a bar and spend the rest ...

Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means ...

I sigh and look at her. 'I must have been mad taking you on as a friend'. ' What are you talking about?' she grins. ...

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

The very substance of ambition is merely the shadow of a dream.