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Clostridium botulinum: Found in jams and preserves that weren't prepared properly, this bad bug produces one of the deadliest toxins on Earth-it enters our nerve ...

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I always was afraid of looking films with different killings, but look me now. Now I'm a maniac of looking films which have brutal killings ...

Everything is true and not true about everything. That's one thing I've learned.

We women have intuition," Barby said loftily. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. I can't imagine why there aren't more women detectives.

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to ...

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.

The outside world is just a bad habit of the so-called nervous system.

So at that time of day when the early sun still rings haloes on human heads, Socrates is walking through the Agora to his judgement ...

I had an abiding respect for the professionalism of career prostitutes, who wore their dishonesty more openly than lawyers, both of whom bill by the ...

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that ...

I enjoy reading and I'm a huge kindle fan, the device you can read eBooks with. One of the best inventions of all times. I ...

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would ...

Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never ...

There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.

We have a choice in our lives. We can be content with where we are, or we can set goals and continue to push ourselves ...

This is what it means to believe in ascension and fear climbing.

Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.

To have a second language is to have a second soul," said Charlemagne around 800 AD. "Each language has its own cognitive toolkit," said psychologist/linguist ...

Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.

Patron Saint of Failures St Birgitta of Sweden.

Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than ...

Triumph doesn't have a universl measure!

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity ...

And you managed to pick up on all that while being hung upside down by a fellow agent, getting yourself beat to shit by your ...

I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I ...

I don't need much coaxing.

You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far ...

Kill an unborn baby and you still couldn't de-fetus

Bagman swore loudly. 'Damn them!' he said, looking quite distracted,

The simple fact was, he loved her. Loved her with every breath in his body, every cell in his blood, every bone and organ he ...

Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal ...

I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.

The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with ...

What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to ...

To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something ...

My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa ...

This thing that bewilders the intellect utterly quiets the heart:

Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, ...

The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't want to put ...

There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and ...

I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of ...

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera ...

The wall irisopens its buds:before my eyesthe last springbegins to fade

Ty cried out and bucked his hips. He pulled his feet up to give him more leverage and tried to meet Zane's movements with his ...

Um ... milk. Yes, I believe I do have milk. In the fridge, Anyn replied, remarkably cordial for someone who'd just been cock-blocked by Dr. ...

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the ...

You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, ...

Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique ...

The timeless challenge in the real world is to help less-talented people transcend their limitations.

Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be ...

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

When I heard the ghouls coming for you, all I cared about was reaching you in time. How often must I tell you that you ...

You're an asshole.""And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head.

I have nothing left to lose. Which is why I drive my shoulder into her rib cage, hoist her off the floor, and bulldoze us ...

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who ...

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around ...

We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with ...

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that - and we are, but it's not with ...

I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be ...

A writer wasn't a body, just a byline. My words would be sharp and spiky, punchy and pointed; my stories would be swift and lean, ...

And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that ...

One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.

Stephen Schlesinger's Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a ...

Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the ...

You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to yours. The we'll all be comfortable.

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I ...

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of ...

'Do the Right Thing' has been a big influence on me. I saw it when it first came out in 1989. I was about 18, ...

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

It was my job to interest them in everything that was happening, to make the arrival of the Daily Express each morning an event, to ...

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents ... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for ...

There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been ...

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the ...

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently ...

It is a time-honored adage that love begats love ... cast your bread upon the waters and ye shall receive it after many days, increased ...

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident ...

You can also look at your body and think about how the blood flows and the fact that your body is in constant renewal. It ...

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

Dr. Turing, of Cambridge University, has pointed out that bobbadah bobbadah hoe daddy yanga langa furjeezama bing jingle oh yeah, Waterhouse says, or words to ...

I like to go to the airport looking stylish - you never know who you'll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I ...

The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but ...

Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the ...

By nineteen, I had found my look. Oversize T-shirts, bike shorts, and wrestling shoes. To prevent the silhouette from being too baggy, I would cinch ...

Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.

You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.

Pollyanna now, like Mrs. Snow, was knitting wonderful things out of bright colored worsteds that trailed their cheery lengths across the white spread, and made ...

She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad.""I bet""I'm serious. I was heartbroken.""For how long?""A whole week." ...

We leave a Disney park reassured. We have opened our eyes to the world of the possible. We have experienced the better world. And by ...