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VASTY (As differentiated from "vast") Has approximately the same meaning as "biggy," "hugey," and "giganticky." Do not let anyone tell you these words are not ...
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization.
There was nothing quite like being put in the friend zone by your pregnant girlfriend.
I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience.
Who we are to be is more important than what we are to do. It is the who that determines the what. If you can ...
Susan, you were a mighty fine woman when you were alive and all, but personally I'd rather be gang-raped by giant, rabid, syphilitic porcupines, than ...
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to ...
People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but ...
I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used ...
The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may ...
Those left behind prayed constantly for peace but prayers came back with Return to Sender stamped all over them. Only the roll call of the ...
Being with him was like being alone underwater everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when ...
In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly held U.S. positions ...
The first step toward understanding is of course argument.
If they were meant to really be together, why had they been born a prince and a commoner? And if they weren't, why did she ...
The Boricuas arrogancy is the cause for Puerto Ricos decline
This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.
There's a reason diehard fans get to the ballpark hours before game time. It's not for better parking. It's not for extra time to find ...
With new hope.We build new lives.Why complain when it rains?This is what it means to be free.
Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen ...
When you decide to be the immovable object standing in front of the unstoppable force, you'd better pray that you're right about being immovable, and ...
I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.
For a long time I would go to bed early.[Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]
You are - remarkable. Every day, I think I am going to be surprised by how remarkable you are, but I am not. Because this ...
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend ...
No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about ...
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 ...
Every single show she out there reppin like a mascot.
I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make ...
Oh my God. What in - "I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked."Mom," Isabel snapped, interrupting. "Do you ...
About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.
It's not simply about reading fairytales as you grow older. It's about still finding the magic in fairytales when the world tells you you're too ...
I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.
I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized ...
Caterpillar sheds it's skin to find a butterfly within.
And the weather was so damn sick of being predictable; I heard it began snowing in the Sahara and I wanted to tell you that ...
If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
But there is no such substratum; there is no "being" behind doing, effecting, becoming; "the doer" is merely a fiction added to the deed-the deed ...
Blake Crouch, Chicago's deputy chief, and says, "I don't know." Crouch resembles a mole, with a long, sharp nose and tiny black eyes.
Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the ...
I sit down in front of Baz now, on the coffee tablewhich I carried up by myself. He hands me his cup, and I take ...
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at the end of ...
Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to ...
He had lovely eyes, really - not assessing, at all, but big and dark and ... waiting.
A movie playing on the TV screen in front of us. Some sort of bad Tom Cruise drama. I've never liked Tom Cruise. He always ...
You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last name. When the ...
I don't think I've had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I've realised is that ...
Ashley to marry Melanie Hamilton! Oh, it couldn't be true!
After watching the house for a few days, she had concluded that the magician lived alone, but you never knew if someone had a secret ...
So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive ...
I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake ...
One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the ...
Lie #5This can't last forever.
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as ...
Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.
Originating in large scale electronic warfare and anti-jamming technologies for the battlefield devised by two Russian immigrants, these now one-chip systems can fit in a ...
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus ...
For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look ...
PSA3.8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people.
The tree is but a huge boquet.
UC Santa Cruz biologist had discovered elevated levels of radiation in fish swimming among some of the 47,500 barrels of nuclear waste that the navy ...
The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough ...
Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt ...
I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success.
Only forest fires produce more black carbon than bunker fuel. Bunker fuel can have a sulfur content of up to 45,000 parts per million (ppm). ...
The open road. What a trio of words. What a vision of blue sky and untouched hills and narrow trails heading God knew where and ...
I am the bridge that connects these two ever- separated banks of human understanding.
Being the new guy's always great because you get to go in fresh with your own choices and you get to bring new life and ...
Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.
Bros before hoes," said Jared. "By which of course I mean gardening tools, because I hold all the fine ladies of Sorry-in-the-Vale in the highest ...
There is need for a new foundation and this foundation is laid in us on the day of our salvation
He kissed her then. He had to kiss her, to try out every way he could move his mouth over hers - hard and soft, ...
But sometimes to keep Evil from getting in, you have to let Good out.
I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate ...
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is ...
We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about ...
You have a woman like that? Who's beautiful, smart and sexy, who gets you and likes you anyway - when you're not being an overthinking ...
You've got the words to change a nationbut you're biting your tongue
The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.
I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole ...
T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's ...
Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.
Sometimes get lost in the white noise of people's anger and being super adamant on one side or the other. And what fails to happen ...
I think of my drawing style like handwriting: it's a mix of whatever handwriting you're born with, plus bits and pieces you've pilfered from other ...
You mean, the people are armed?" Prince Bentrik was incredulous."Great Satan, aren't yours?" Prince Trask was equally surprised. "Then your democracy's a farce, and the ...
This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt ...
'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video ...
A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn't.
Sharper than a serpent's tooth is a daughter's ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirits can be broken, with love.
I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.