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I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.
This is hell, but I planned it. I sawed it,I nailed it, and I will live in it until it kills me.I can nail my ...
Are you feeling better now? ...
The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she's wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don't stop lust by covering ...
Anther spasm ripped through me and all I could wonder was why in the world had women been doing this for thousands of years? This ...
If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day - that's the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how ...
I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.
Nations warred over anthills and pride.
As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud ...
If I have aught it is gave from Thy Hand
Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? For if reason does its own work, what else could you wish ...
Be how you want to be received.
At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't ...
Our news bulletins were full of killings and death, so it was natural for Atal to think of coffins and graves. Instead of hide-and-seek and ...
It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,than the limitations society tries ...
It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts ...
I seek no mercy; my conscience is clear.
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the ...
Quicksand Jesus I'm so far AWAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!
There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and ...
The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection ...
Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have ...
When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie,My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;The flame shall not hurt thee; I only designThy dross to ...
The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, ...
There was too much going on here too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are ...
If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a ...
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that ...
Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee.
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves ...
My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get ...
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in ...
I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.
The impact of falling in love for the first time has a special place in our arhitecture.
Your mortal's storming the slaver den." Aric's tone was half-amused, half-approving. "I'm hereby inviting myself on his incursion.
Azoth had learned that lesson. He didn't have to understand; he just had to obey.
All pomp and show." Anjali's glare at the house would've exploded bricks if she'd had superhuman powers. "A fat cow needs a big barn.
Aramus says you may, but you are not to perform any procedures on Avion or anyone else." "Darn, no game of Operation? And here I ...
The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end ...
To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning.
I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish ...
RIDER FOR THE FUNERAL OF AMY SCHUMER: . . . The actual body of AMY SCHUMER should be propped up on a chair in the ...
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
Never let a crisis go to waste
Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams ...
Adrijana speaks Norwegian with an upper-class, west-end accent.
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in ...
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
One of the problems with sex education ... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail ...
My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in ...
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
No wonder you get along with so many kinds of people, Foster. Look at all this heritage that's part of you. That's something to be ...
When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One ...
Kami got to school the next day without any incidents like being kidnapped by pirates or having the earth open up and swallow her, which ...
When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a ...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.
When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of monkeys loose and ...
Escape plan #5: Open an alpaca ranch in Texas, one that requires all blond-haired, brown-eyed, brainy girls to wear sexy cowgirl outfits.
I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. ...
Instead of looking outside for happiness, become the well of happiness within and share it with others instead.
There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy.
Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.
So I'm delighted to open up a bit about these particular details, in honor of Valentine's Day (when every balding, chubby, and short actuary wants ...
The door to opportunity is marked push but the gateway to dreams is marked relentless prep fiend & OCD-heads only.
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its ...
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please;All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie:Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;Courtesie grows in court; news in ...
With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is real danger, we ...
I averted my eyes, looked around, and stumbled through all the faces in the room till they finally rested on his. He was standing like ...
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.[Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]
I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. ...
I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them ...
Life is great.Life is amazing.Observe the beauty in everything you do.
I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I'm very fortunate that I can have ...
It is almost always impossible to get an abused child to admit who's abusing her.
Keep secret things secret and they will serve you the better!
As soon as you have finished telling us anything, you seem to be ashamed of what you've said," Aglaia observed suddenly. "Why is that?
Carving is a source of joy to the artist ... To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's ...
He held you captive and managed to fall in love with you in the process.
Hell hath no fury like a woman, or perhaps a homosexual, scorned.
Old habits 'DIE' hard, they have to be 'KILLED'! Yes...for once I would propogate some violence in dealing with habits that do not serve us...'Cold ...
Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.
They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating ...
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all ...
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a ...
Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.
(Some girl) "You said we'd have breakfast!"(Jasper) "If i live, i'll buy you waffles." "You don't have enough money to buy her waffles," Wylan grumbled."Be ...
Then it was you who wounded Aravis?" "It was I." "But what for?" "Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. ...
Akthent on thee latht thyllable.
My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwhatu; the eye line makes you feel ...
One day Samuel strained his back lifting a bale of hay, and it hurt his feelings more than his back, for he could not imagine ...
Leave it to the Russians to have an angel gulag.
If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.