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There was never an age considered old enough to know everything. The calm seas of hell were only a break before the next storm.

Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet ...

It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying ...

It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having ...

Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very ...

Many races believe that it was created by some sort of god, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was ...

In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The ...

A girl sitting with us in the boat compared traveling over the water to the imperceptible gliding and progress of growth, that of fruit for ...

Until he turned twelve, Nimrod was a shitty person. The kind of whiner that, if he wasn't your best friend, you'd have kicked his ass ...

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

I had to let someone know who I was: not merely Simon's assistant, his chronicler, his poor scribbling friend, but the great love of a ...

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Another legend claims that we descended from wolves - and that the wolves are our sisters still.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two ...

I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

I'm feeling generous. We'll make it sixty-nine thousand. I just love writing 69s. I'll even put that in the memo. For sixty-nining your beautiful son.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can ...

Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't ...

Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. ...

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing ...

If we cling now, we suffer later. If

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers ...

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,That I would set my life on any chance,To mend, or be rid on't.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional - the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, ...

Even in the far future,never forget the you of right nowWherever you are right now,you're just taking a break

From where I stood it was a pose that collapsed many periods in her life into one: mother and lover, big sister, best friend, superstar ...

Christine Brinkley, that's my age range of supermodels. That's on my radar. This isn't someone where I don't know who she is. She turned out ...

I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have ...

She had brushed her teeth before vomiting as well, never able to utterly crush the optimistic streak in her nature.

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything ...

I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train ...

To love is to be destroyed, and to be loved is to be destroyed.

The snow will cover me like a thick white blanket. It will be warm under the snow, and if they speak of me they'll have ...

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, thinking. Her legs are white as ...

The codebase turned out to be almost 3 times the size of the web version, with most of the code being new. While building the ...

I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere ...

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be ...

We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no ...

When you're in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at ...

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

That's my girl," he murmured."I'm not your girl.""Well," he said not bothering to hide his smile from her sightless eyes, "the good news is that ...

I had bags of energy as a kid.

When the Russian kettlebell meets an American steak, it is a beautiful thing.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love ...

For religion to truly become an aid to humanity as a whole, every human being must make sincere efforts to break down the dogmatic barriers ...

But, isn't it like Star Trek? You know, stand in the circles and 'Beam me up, Scotty'?

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They ...

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

This book itself is not a book on what people at the top do or should do. It is addressed to everyone who, as a ...

We will meet as though we met not and part as though we parted not.

I experimented with fashion as it being more like art, allowing what I wore to express what I was feeling on the inside. Androgyny, rock ...

Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for ...

As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.Let her be strong.Let her be sly.And let her be ugly.

God's grace, mighty deeds.

I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking ...

Beauty is the gift of God

Zuko: "Why am I so bad at being good?!

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

Everything in the world of soul has a deep desire and longing for visible form; this is exactly where the power of the imagination lives.

Like, say, hypothetically, if your entire life were going to change tomorrow, if it were going to be the first day of the rest of ...

I look at her - at the girl I gave my heart to - and I wonder how I got so lucky.

I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.

..but if I can't tell my best friend, who can I tell??

You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what ...

I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.

When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's ...

Concern for Others Loophole: We tell ourselves that we're acting out of consideration for others and making generous, unselfish decisions. Or we decide we must ...

Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended.

The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put out into the ...

When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just ...

Take the rose - most people think it very beautiful: I don't care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason ...

For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you." - Cecilia & The Satelite

Then the concerts came to an end, the weather turned bad and my girls left Balbec, not all at once, as the swallows leave, but ...

Take your diamonds and throw em up like you're bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.

I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing ...

I am very skinny.

Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will ...

Because I like that I got an ugly girl's personality. In other words, a homely girl always has to develop that muscle. And I did. ...

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee ...

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no ...

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we ...

He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed: he was his ...

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're ...

... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician's art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful ...

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke ...