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The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling ...

You have many qualities that make you as great a man as any other here at the Althing. In the first place, you are as ...

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my ...

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - ...

Being in control of your own destiny is a myth - and wouldn't be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what's happening around ...

Hannibal Burress is my polar opposite in energy. I can be crazy, and he grounds the 'Eric Andre Show.'

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and ...

You wasn't made like watch-dogs and house-cats and cows. You was made a fox, and you be a fox, and its queer-like to me, Foxy, ...

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's ...

The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my ...

I want to feel you up like we're sixteen in the backseat of a car. On the outside of your clothes," he said just above ...

The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. ...

The meaningless wordplays of modish francophone savants, splendidly exposed in Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Intellectual Impostures (1998), seem to have no other function than ...

Emperors are vain and useless things.

OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to ...

I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled ...

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

I'm very acrobatic. I can do backflips and all that crazy stuff.

I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to ...

I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't like that, do ...

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going ...

My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

The thoughts you think and the way you feel are at the center of what you attract. Rather than looking for things outside of you ...

You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A ...

It could have been a beautiful friendship," Beifus said with a sigh. "Except for the ice pick, of course.

She left them before Bagwy Llydiart, in midsentence. Geoffery and Sally got the subject and verb, and the girl who opened the farm door to ...

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, ...

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I ...

Jeff Beachum, Sergeant of Snark, Wielder of Witticism, Dominator of the Double Entendre, completely ran out of things to say.

I know nothing of being a wife, but I have learned much about the running and maintenance of an estate. It may be that you ...

One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time ...

As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop's irreverence toward ...

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. ...

Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you meet are illiterate ...

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and ...

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which ...

My dad had a temper. I have a temper. Most people I know have a temper. And I think it comes out mostly with your ...

In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be ...

Looking desultorily about, his attention had been drawn by a dull glimmering on one of the tables; and he had extricated the queer orblike stone ...

The corrupt begat corruption.

What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel ...

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, ...

Among the countless people in the world, two will find each other against all the odds and beat as a single eternal heart.- Not First ...

A dark side doesn't mean a bad soul, and if it is, who's good thensrirom.blogspot.in

There was a mountain of grief to be climbed, and no amount of talk would help me up it.

I mean, the type of art that I enjoy is art that - I enjoy a very broad spectrum, but I especially like art that ...

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating empty ...

If Lady Brentmor told the prime minister to jump off a bridge," Fiona had once remarked, "Wellington would meekly ask, 'Which one?

The Real gives me asthma.

If I were a lesbian and had a thing for narcissistic ex-sorority girls? I'd totally do me.Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, ...

I am beyond excited to share 'Transparent' with the world through Amazon. They've been so supportive through this incredible process.

Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of ...

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's ...

You know that feeling just before you're going to laugh? That thing where you get all bubbled up? ... It's like a bubble of laughter, ...

As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to ...

I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm just grateful to know that the first ...

Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.It's just ironical that you are in love and want to ...

Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism ... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages ...

I'm not going to stand here and have the same argument with you over and over. What I will say is that when I walk ...

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim ...

...Now did you ever hear of a young feller's having such hard luck, Mrs. Burden?"Grandma told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these ...

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a ...

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don't do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires ... And I think of Bloy's words: there ...

If all we are is what people think we are, then we're all screwed.

If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire ...

They left Puonvangi at the 303rd in the company of a riotous party of Binlisi conventioneers. The Birilisi were an avian species and much given ...

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

I'll tell them you're insane but being responsible about it." "Thanks, Alex.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a ...

I don't need it. I don't want it. And you cheated me out of it.

Other lives wind themselves into your own and then leave for distant places or wink out like extinguished lamps, and then all the evidence you ...

I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn's full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed ...

I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any ...

The more I am getting to know these so called 'beautiful people' the more I am waking up to their emptiness. For them 'being tall' ...

What would Ripley do? When in a jam, Carrow often thought of how Ellen Ripley, the legendary badasstress of the Alien quadrilogy, would figure her ...

I like shirts and sweaters that fall off the shoulder or plaid button-ups.

If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner ...

Overhead announcement at psychiatric hospital: Lithium is no longer available on credit.

My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.

The passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission ...

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posteritya good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself ...

Um, tequila please?" I asked questioningly, enunciating each word as best as my drunken mouth would allow. So really, it came out as "Uff, shakira ...

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the ...

St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to ...

Robert Johnson invented the blues, at midnight, at a crossroads, after selling his soul to the devil. Dorothy Parker invented amusing women, at 2 p.m., ...

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start ...

Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, ...

Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days ...