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So Aunt Jillian quit her job and hitched her wagon to Brant. Lived off food stamps and her savings account in a spare bedroom at ...

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their ...

The fact that my dad was never around gave me a lot of determination. It really set this fire full of fuel, so to speak. ...

In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And ...

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time ...

I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If ...

Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride ...

I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.

How sublime Upon a time-blanch'd cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! - ...

The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.The duty of government is to help them do it.This is the pasta of ...

You'll be amazed at how capable people think you are if they don't know you well. Don't waste that advantage.

Rare indeed is the seed who can bury its nightmares & still stem & blossom into its wildest dreams.

After all, the reasoning goes, at the big bang everything emerged from one place since, we believe, all places we now think of as different ...

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and ...

Perhaps," the half-breed admitted. "But why fight when there is no need? Why fight just for its own sake? That is not fighting to save ...

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.

Everyone lives in a proverbial music video for a few hours. Then they leave the blinged out universe of faux-independence and fleeting adulthood and return ...

You know, people ask, "How does the chemistry happen?" It's like being in a bar when you're drunk. You see the person, and you don't ...

If you want to be your best, spend a lot of time exploring what is more than enough. Push yourself until the bar is lying ...

Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not ...

The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my ...

Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out, unless of course it had a very short life cycle.

We have an assumption here in America that the kind thing to do is to be "friendly," which means being extroverted, even intrusive. The Japanese ...

The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow ...

You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first ...

I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or ...

Sometimes it takes being at your lowest point to see who's really there for you. And they're all standing right beside me now. The

She closed her eyes, not really hearing the rest of what he murmured against her ear. All she knew was that it echoed everything that ...

What I do for myself stays within me, what I do for others lasts a lifetime.

Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.

He was delighted by things, as he was delighted by her, and he had done nothing else ever but make that clear.

All parents want their children to be happy, but so few parents talk about it.

He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by ...

Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a ...

Patterns that Arthur knew, rough blobby shapes that were as familiar to him as the shapes of words, part of the furniture of his mind. ...

I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a ...

Our house was inside a black halo, thin as a soap bubble. Everything was squeezing in on us and everything was about to burst.

He was an animal. Everyone knows never to corner one that's injured...even if it is just his pride.

Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger ...

The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the daySpills over buildings into the streets where orphans playAnd only You can see the good ...

Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my ...

Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put together ...

Fun times. Broken hearted people really did need to just be left the fuck alone. We're not suitable company for anyone.

He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civility. She could sip from that cup. It is ...

Like Dolores and Frank might quit being little glum reavers out to wreck their world.

In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers ...

Let me note that Kilgore Trout and I have never used semicolons. They don't do anything, don't suggest anything. They are transvestite hermaphrodites.

Organizers had been able to find interpreters for. First up on the dais was Mary Bulinski, the United States secretary of the interior, an inveterate ...

At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking ...

The speed and trajectory of BlackRock's ascent have been breathtaking.

Tell me the truth, Italian. You don't like it because it's strong. You like it because it's illegal.

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place ...

The ultimate objective of such modern mystery school rituals as the Babalon Working of Parsons, and the Alamantra Working of Crowley, was to produce the ...

I hear the Sophie Giraffe is great for teething. Another thing I really love right now is the Moby Baby Carrier. To me, it seems ...

A team may have some great players, but typically, the team that works best together does the best. I look at running Broadcom in the ...

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

How can you say it was all a lie?" I ask, just above a whisper. "Matt was my best friend. I loved him that way ...

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with ...

Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer ...

If I were you, I wouldn't try and track her down." "Why not?" "Because when it comes to Dee, you're better off not knowing where ...

Hmm? It's sort of a hunch ... I just knew when I saw your eyes ... I can't come up with cool words to describe ...

The three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day.

We are all unconsciously in search of love. Whenever we feel its presence in our environment, we can't help but be drawn to it. There ...

I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his ...

There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with ...

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all ...

Hence it is evident that if men are pious, good and orderly, they will bear the sword for the protection of the innocent, according to ...

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.

Love is a conquest. Love is a war.Here is what I think of love.

To get see food,You need a fishing rod.To get love food,You need a loving heart.

In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than ...

I crouched on the beam. The bunnycat shivered less than a foot away."Here ... " Bunny? Kitty? "Here, cute creature thing ... Don't be scared.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, ...

Little bucktoothed alligatorready to taste my bills.Make something suffer.Make something stick.

Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell ...

In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.

Make each day a beautiful day of your life.

Voldemort's fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb.

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be ...

Go ahead and eat your bread, a time will come when it shall get to you breath. Go ahead and leave your pen, exams will ...

Let's be simple and calm,Like brooks and trees,And God will love us by makingBeautiful things like the trees and brooks for us,And give us greenness ...

House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. ...

That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

When i spend too much time in my head, focused on things in the past or things in the future ... when i lose sight ...

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

Now, the magic of British parks at night, as Bill Oddie presents.. Gaywatch.

People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable and transparent, so ...

The enthusiasm that characterizes our time is, unlike current events, hopeful and, like all enthusiasms, playful. The energy that flashes through our electronics has leapt ...

Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves ...