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Calvin: Why are you crying mom?Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

Love is the only constant, the only reality, and when you accept and understand that you will know it.

Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.

If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, ...

My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On ...

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

I have no appetite,' she sighed. 'Not for food, not for work. Not for anything.' I looked at her and wondered what I am except ...

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after ...

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

He smiled at her, a tiny lift of the corner of his mouth. "Color me impressed." Linked, pp 225

I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow ...

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

A free press is equally free to print the truth or ignore it, as it chooses.

Baby, I wouldn't settle for someone else if I couldn't have you,

(which is quite common in Europe). It's

Much of what we think of as human evolved long after the use of tools. It is probably more correct to think of much of ...

I knew I could not sketch a woman, in all her natural inner beauty. I may have the perfect skill, but putting something in pen ...

An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Ms. Scarlett always delivers hot, sexy alphas and this isn't any different. Holy smokes, is this ever HOT! Love her writing and the way she ...

You are the ONLY you there is, you have a purpose, you are not just a biomass

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

"I call them april babies cause they fools"

As a kid I couldn't afford any Jordans, so I didn't get my first pair until my last year of high school. They were Air ...

Cubism is a part of the daily life in Spain, it is in Spanish architecture. The architecture of other countries aleays follows the line of ...

In dancing the Alman the young men sometimes steal the damsels from their partners and he who has been robbed seeks to obtain another damsel. ...

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would ...

The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are ...

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn ...

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of ...

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.

It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image.(The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).

From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I ...

Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of aesthetic-intellectual means of perception to ...

Even though ashrams ... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know ...

I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this ...

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.

Humanity is never acquired in solitude, and never by giving one's work to the public. It can be achieved only by one who has thrown ...

The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! ...

Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target ...

I have like fifteen televisions in my house.

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever ...

The average American child, by age eighteen, is estimated to have seen eighteen thousand murders and two hundred thousand acts of violence on television. The ...

And while they were in the same place, there came a great mist about them and a darkness, so that they could not know what ...

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's ...

You can do this, he thought. Just make it to that Hole.

This isn't a book. This isn't a paranormal fantasy or whatever the hell it is you read. There is no set plot or clear idea ...

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the ...

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for ...

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. ...

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.

Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you," means, "Dear God, let me see this person through your eyes." In accepting the Atonement, we are ...

It is culture that is the bully.Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation

I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.

Things don't always turn out the way we plan, but don't ever let what you haven't done eclipse all the good you have done and ...

If we put a vinaigrette together, every part of it is weighed. For the burger, we do a bit of arugula, olive oil - everything ...

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one ...

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.-Rose

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than ...

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 ...

Orange: Uh OhMario: Uh oh what?Orange ... Uh-Oh spaghettio's *LAUGH*Mario: Not Funny

Noise is democratic; silence, aritocratic

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do ...

Every so often in life, you have no control. And instead of fighting, you can choose to accept what life brings you, and make the ...

I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of 'The Saint.' He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to ...

Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.

Disney's Aulani Resort has really developed the southwest coast of Oahu and led to it getting more attention.

It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

Those who forget the past tend to regret the future

I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand ...

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a ...

I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., ...

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself ... that a tiger is an optical illusionwell, he will find out he is wrong. ...

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation ...

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put ...

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a ...

Pray stop your infernal whispering. You sound like a pack of nuns planning a murder.

. . .three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion ...