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[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to ...

Cassini is different it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I ...

Creativity is the Blue Heron within us waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who ...

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just ...

Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.

The bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

I hold death in my pouch, I cannot die.

Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not.

The Lord created you and protects you always

Responsive. She now realized that the old adage 'he who wants friends must show himself friendly' was right.

I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in its ...

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

Japanese goldfish,With your gossamer tail,You are the loveliest creatureI have ever seen.""Japanese kitten,Put your tongue back in where it belongsAnd go away.I know exactly what ...

You can have a striker who scores 50 goals in one season but if you win nothing it means nothing

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

Does it involve breaking and entering?" A little smile stretched Raphael's lips. "I see His Majesty made a move. Has he asked you to make ...

There was a big age difference between me and my brothers - about 10 years - so I was an only child for a long ...

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand ...

At least I'm not pussy-whipped." "Nice. Fucking. Suit.

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to ...

Life is supposed to be messy. Being human means you will get our heart broken and your fingernails dirty.

Bear markets are like bad colds. You hate them, but you know eventually you'll feel better.

Why I oughta ...

No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - 'Creature from the Black Lagoon.'

Today is the day you have gone away and today is also the day I have died.Lets mourn for me, her and my love.

Exactly why I don't have a boyfriend," I whisper, turning to the window. Because you've referenced The Lord of the Rings twice before lunch, or ...

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have ...

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, ...

We should be sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without being servile or scraping. As God's people we stand on our feet; we don't crawl before ...

It is the accursed inventions of this century that are ruining everything--artilleries, bombards, and, above all, printing, that other German pest. No more manuscripts, no ...

I don't think I was bullied. If I was bullied, I fought back or turned the other cheek. I have been put in a box, ...

I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's ...

People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.

So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell.

I like to be in the zone. I like being in the studio with the artists, with the producers, with the musicians, feeling it, and ...

The insecure people enjoy bad mouthing the others. They indulge in the continuous havoc and they tangle themselves in this spider web of plots and ...

If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, ...

I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind.

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You ...

The Buddha achieved enlightenment as he sat under the spreading limbs of the Bodhi tree, breathing in and out in silence, as does a tree.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

Well, I guess that in the computer magazines God is more often spelled Gates, but you know what I mean.

I should have known. You were always so good to me. I was blinded by my love for you.

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in ...

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you ...

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at ...

[Of the Bagos:] Like the Moros in the south, they are our brothers. We must recognize their belongingness to Filipinas, their willingness to fight for ...

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. ...

Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that ...

I've played a Nintendo Wii. I don't see it as a competitor. It's more of an expensive niche game device. We're selling a lot of ...

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

The structural or biogenetic relations of plant products as deduced from the recognizable architectural components of the molecules have been consistent guides in my investigations.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's ...

I might be developing an addiction. You being my drug of choice. Rehab is 'not' an option, my love is forever. Just so you know.

You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again ...

I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive.

Slowly, though, my fingers savoring the familiar soft skin. And then I let her go. I let her go all the way then, because she's ...

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a ...

Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky.

I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to ...

All the air suddenly seemed to leave his sails and his shoulders sagged as he dropped to his knees in front of her,bringing his eyes ...

It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a ...

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Live your best life now; there's no time!

The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing.

Though the weather was cool, the beach at Herringsdorf was dotted with quite a few diehard nudists. Primarily men, they lay walrus-like on towels or ...

I'm tired of biting my tongue.

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that ...

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense ...

Every shadow of a thought or doubt.. crossed his face with the clarity of cloud shadows racing across the fields.

I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it Ayan Mukherjee, Punit ...

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But ...

Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as though you knew ...

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

That's when I realized that part of me would probably always be lost in the past. That just seemed to be my personality: I was ...

This is what I'm going to remember on the day I die," he said. "Right before I close my eyes, I'm going to remember this, ...

The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one does not need to grieve over having an ugly one back ...

Leafpool picked up her bundle and bounded off through the trees. Bramblestar watched her go, more glad than he could express that she was ThunderClan's ...

Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you're first, second generation Irish or ...

The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched ...

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

The band broke into a cover of "Hungry Like the Wolf." I smiled up at mine. He was sexy even in soaking wet blue jeans. ...

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary ...

Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand ...

Later that evening, Norma Jeane said good night to Bill and returned home. Standing before a mirror she picked up a lipstick and scribbled, 'This ...

I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax ...

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

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 ...

For innovators, understanding the job is to understand what consumers care most about in that moment of trying to make progress.