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I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely ...

'Community' is a great show. I love 'Raising Hope' with Martha Plimpton. And I love 'The Middle' - another Chicagoan in there is Neil Flynn, ...

Different century. It's totally okay.

The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from ...

Whether chocolate or vanilla, or you're somewhere in between,A cappuccino mocha or a caramel queen,Rejected by the black, not accepted by the white world,And this ...

My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?

I don't spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn't realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.

I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every ...

I like you very much. Just as you are. Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones

But if you close your eyes,does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake ...

What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to ...

The "contempt of cops" by those in their chain of command creates Toxic Boss Blues.

How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of boxwood being seasoned ...

In a blacked-out house, stripped of all comforts, it's easy to turn your anger outward, to attack this city he's lying at the center of, ...

The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a ...

Cecilia didn't care what the fine print said about free will and God's mysterious ways and blahdy-blah. If God had a supervisor, she would have ...

And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law ...

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

He folded his hands behind his back and puffed out his chest. Reminded Lucky of a barnyard rooster. Anybody who referred to Lucky as a ...

The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.

His quant band was gone, he noticed: he wouldn't be tracking his steps, his blood oxygen, heart rate, local EF field activity, or the five ...

In truth, the degree of anyone's succes depends on how often they can say the word 'yes' and hear the word 'no.' Those many times ...

Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis ...

I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records ...

He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was ...

If you could just see your face," she told me. "You look like a cat in a bathtub.

I'm not a rock star, I'm a rock bright-light.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love ...

The Answer is that I am afraid...Afraid of Connection with human beingsAfraid of Being AloneAfraid of be with my opinion

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of ...

A man shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.

Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live ...

Do you know why the big brother is born first? It's to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling ...

Through youthe world learnsto recognize itself - as heaven.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a ...

Object-oriented programming had boldly promised "to model the world." Well, the world is a scary place where bad things happen for no apparent reason, and ...

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

There's nothing good... behind those tears.

I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. ...

While to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those ...

When you're down, remember your triumphs. [ ... ] Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing.

Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory ...

Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police - plastic swords versus batons. Percy wasn't ...

Decoding (a child's difficult) behavior is like looking at a rain wrapped tornado crossing the road in front of you. You see the fury of ...

Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental ...

Stargazing is the story of a happy family plunged into an unexpected drama: it's poignant, warm, and unpredictable. I enjoyed it hugely.' -- Julie Cohen

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human ...

I ... can't go to dinner with you on Wednesday.""It's almost four in the morning, Abby. What's going on?""I can't see you at all, actually.""Abs ...

The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.

It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or ...

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory ...

We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn't the ...

The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: 'How much money do you make?' It's a legitimate question to ask in ...

The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a dog's ass.

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.

The bhel-puri stall was a sculptured landscape with its golden pyramid of sev, the little snow mountains of mumra, hillocks of puris, and, in among ...

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets ...

They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.

My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We ...

Within reach of his hand, the Bloody-Nine was master. The

If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!

The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even ...

I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff ...

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying ...

My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.

The beauty of mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn't find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her ...

Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those ...

We're only going to be able to compete in the world if we continue to be innovative.

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, ...

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power ...

It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are ...

I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in ...

The biggest weakness with my game is that I have fun with the galleries. I just love a gallery.

The idea that water has a memory can be refuted by any one of several easily understood, invalid, arguments.

Even if one child falls in a borewell, the entire country gets worried; we must generate more awareness about hundreds of children who are unable ...

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are ...

The author apologizes for being unable to afford a ghost writer, which explains the lack of a distinctive prose style.

Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, ...

But this, too, was a side effect of dying: I could not run or dance or eat foods rich in nitrogen, but in the city ...

I preferred the booty shorts, but I thought you'd prefer these. ~Mirko

The blue jay playing around the cabin means you are going to have plenty of good times and fun. The blue jay is a clown ...

He's my best friend. We were catching up. I just told him that I forgive him for sleeping with my dad for the last four ...

The universe is the externalization of the soul.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without ...

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements ...

I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in ...

I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...