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Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ...

His mind at rest, his flesh at ease, he went on, re-chewing his happiness, like those who after dinner taste again the truffles which they ...

Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

Ruby clapped her hands in glee and gave a comedic wiggle of her head, Bollywood style.I know the song now, can even sing it, but ...

Wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want.

There's some sense in not going back. That way, you preserve it.

Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!

Here is a good joke. The little boy walks into an ice cream store, He asks for a sundae with extra hot fudge sauce. 'I'm ...

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating ...

Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. ...

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

You have to exist in your own life.

A greater liar than the Parthians.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are ...

Break down the problem into smaller pieces and start dealing with them one at a time, piece by piece. The smaller the piece, the easier ...

Travis tapped my apple with his fork. "You gonna eat that, Pidge?""No, you can have it, Baby."Heat consumed my ears when America's head jerked to ...

When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. ...

Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting.

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage ...

Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more than you did ...

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

I'm nineteen tree rings and mashed acorns stop up my veins when I can't clot. Oh god, you beautiful person, I'll let you lick the ...

The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles.

Buddhism and science share a fundamental reluctance to postulate a transcendent being as the origin of all things.

I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended ...

Life offers a cruel choice: you can be right or happy. Not both. This is true regardless of whom you may be involved with, but ...

Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'

The daily papers were beginning to scream about how terrible it would be if you didn't get your Christmas shopping done early. It would be ...

Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly ...

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb ...

Transform Pain Into Gain

I was never a hammy child. But I could make people laugh.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best ...

Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. ...

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being ...

You realize that if he doesn't know who you are, he won't be able to remember who you were.

Sunglasses are best invention of this worldThey hide eyes,which speak more then words

I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget ...

Success and accomplishments aren't the golden "good life" goals. Instead, having a good life is simple. For an old man to be happy, he just ...

Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb ...

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think ...

If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this ...

If someone said 'diametrically,' could 'opposed' be far behind?

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help ...

I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort ...

I think you should check out 'Battle: Los Angeles' because it really is a sci-fi movie, but it's not. It's not like anything you've seen ...

Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing ...

The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often ...

Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father ...

In order to step into our Promised Land we need to cross River Jordan.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story in ...

The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

Life is always full of surprises. We have our ups and downs, but the biggest pleasure is enjoying the ups to keep us going.

Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: ...

I like guys who have a plan or a dream. A good sense of humor is also a must. I can be weird with my ...

A jovial man can be happy with anyone, but when a sad one laughs, he treasures that one who brings him the sunshine. (Cat)

You must try to understand, my dearest one. It was not treason, was but a dream bred before its time, that the King should not ...

All the ending does is ruin perfectly good suspense," he said with a wink and headed for the door.

I thought he was the saddest person I had ever met, in those moments when I glimpsed him staring out the window.

Boonie wondered with sadness, Why don't I have any real memories like that of this elder statesman who happens to live in our house from ...

I love reality TV and everything, and it's something that I truly love to do, and I love the outcome of it; it's like my ...

My office window overlooks a parking lot. I've got the best view on the whole submarine.

It's important to find a team where you can be comfortable. I know there are a lot of high expectatons.

That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a ...

I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it ...

Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's ...

If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.

Our best hope will never lie in individual survivalism. Nor does it lie in small groups doing their best to prepare for the worst. Our ...

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana ... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not like New York where everyone's like, 'We're from New ...

Fashion always was a huge interest of mine. I love beautiful clothes. I appreciate fine beading and lovely fabrics.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

You are having a baby,' he said. 'I certainly hope it turns out to be a baby,' I agreed.

That she had somehowtaken the initiative to learn my name should have struck me a then, but it did not. Instead, as she stood on ...

Everybody is on drugs ... just give 'em what they want.

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and ...

I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said ...

Her bulging twins are packed tightly into a breastplate engraved with a silver emblem.

Ah, but I was so much older thenI'm younger than that now

The temple was a place of learning for the Savior when He was on the earth; it was very much a part of His life. ...

That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.

All I really want to do is spend my life traveling the world, reading books that take my breath away, drinking all kinds of tea ...

There comes atime when one has seen such suffering one begins to understand, in thisworld, even the innocent may be forced to bear the sins ...

The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His ...

An inch long scar on my left wrist, reminded me of an enchanted world of love, which had vanished like a mirage.

I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican ...

If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - ...

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all ...

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt ...

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I ...

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized ...

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.