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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

By remaining exactly the same today as you were yesterday, you are guaranteeing that tomorrow will be no better than today.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.

Take lack of candor ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it ...

If the wealthiest fraction of a society feel that they can afford to insulate themselves from the common fate and buy their way out of ...

Somebody once said that the biggest difference between you and God is that God doesn't think he's you. In pain, we get very clear about ...

The one thing I haven't done that would be so cool would be, like, an action movie. Like a real action, Jason Bourne movie or ...

Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who ...

No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

Sentiment has never been vanquished in its eternal conflict with reason

I played like a child.

I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.

John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring on a musical ...

Lydia shook her head. "This is my life. Getting yelled at in a Walmart parking lot on a Friday night by somebody doing a bad ...

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

At some level, all love is combat, a wrestling with ghosts.

Almost nine years later, I know that stars don't burn forever, and even the brightest can shatter into a million, burning sparks before falling from ...

To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or ...

My heart stole back across wide wastes of years To One who wandered by a lonely sea, And sought in vain for any place of ...

Let us flee from the deceit of life and its supposed happiness and run to Christ alone, who is the Savior of souls. Him let ...

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the ...

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 ...

We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon ...

I got to keep it tight like seams,Cause ain't no fiendsComin' in between me and my dreams,See what I mean, black?

The current of normalcy will pull you away from God at every opportunity if you let it.

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them ...

Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else. (from "The Conqueror")

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...

My past is too dark. You should find a nice girl and leave me alone. Now, get over here and take your pants off. -Pandora ...

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father's extended absences. " Ragtime

The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so ...

You have to work everyday at being the best you can be. It's a project that is never-ending.

Here's the thing about horses--evidently if they hang out together a lot, they buy into this whole "best friends forever" thing, and when one of ...

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to ...

Forget how vast darkness can beFocus on how powerful your light is ... When you turn it on

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England ...

What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still ...

Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you ask? Like laundry, ...

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by ...

I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.

One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that ...

Be patient. Be strong. Fight back where you can. The Imperial war machine falls apart one gear, one gun, one stormtrooper at a time. The ...

Love has no eyes, but sees much,has no ears, but hears much,has no hands, but does much,has no mind, but thinks much,and has no heart ...

Originally, after 'Tambourine' came out, another record was supposed to come out, but I had issues with my record label at the time, which was ...

Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, ...

In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight

Champions are brilliant at the basics.

It's a ridiculous profession and it's getting worse. It's becoming almost like palm reading or phrenology. It's been relegated to pop best sellers and talk ...

Learn to read and a whole new world will open up to you.

Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy ...

It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

We can let ourselves enjoy life. If we want something and can afford it, buy it. If we want to do something that is legal ...

Fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my ...

Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a ...

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is ...

I'm more like a senior adviser so I don't like to come in here and try to take over. Just like your basic karate movie ...

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

Even though it'll never be flat again, my stomach is my favorite part of my body because it reminds me of my greatest achievement - ...

He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave. "In my day, we used animal blood," the ghost mumbled. "It's ...

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable.

An amber sunset, a flowing river, a snow capped mountain, a beautiful heart, a calm mind, deep eyes, the moon, the earth and the sky ...

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year ... ...

A friend worth your tears, will never make you cry.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie ...

I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can ...

I used to build my own PCs ... and actually had one of the first water-cooled, overclocked PCs around. I ran it at over 4Ghz, ...

The most successful endeavors in the digital age were those run by leaders who fostered collaboration while also providing a clear vision. Too often these ...

'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. ...

I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

When God is the only thing that keeps you, you can face anything.

Echo pranced to the ta ble with a wicked grin on her lips. I craved nothing more than to kiss that pretty little smirk off ...

The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb ...

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower ...

There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell ...

I told her how many things on earth have a fixed colour. Let us say, the green leaves. In our eyes, a red or a ...

Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through ...

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

Number four - world domination. Number five - always be myself. Number six - get a haircut. Number seven - convince Kenzie to fall in ...

Society is not identical with the state. Society is composed of people, freely associating and forming communities of interest that socialists have no right to ...

Necessitythou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film ...

And ... a bed. A bed and a blanket to cover them, a blanket that was theirs together.

Take me there. Or is this a kidnapping? Don't confuse rescue and kidnapping. I have not asked to be rescued.

Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times ...

I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the ...

British currency was configured in pounds, shillings, and pence. One pound equaled twenty shillings, written as 20 s., which in turn equaled 240 pence, or ...

It's not TIME that heals everything, it is SLEEP ... Sleeping is the perfect answer to all doubts and troubles.Leaving the world of reality behind ...

Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph.) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending, I already said in the very first line ...

Then, like a scene in a comedy - their lips but a breath away from touching - the door to the library burst open and ...

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better ...

When I stopped wanting my New Year's Eve to be perfect, to bring in the New Year right, is when it started working out right. ...

I call you domina because that's what you are," Samuel insisted."It's what I was. Now I'm just Brie. What if I only called you pathfinder?

My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become ...