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Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn't; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the ...
That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.
Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.
The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you ...
The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the ...
Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last ...
I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an ...
Only in Italy are elections as carnivalesque as they are here. Except, in Ukraine, the carnival is always anarchistic, and more or less uncontrollable.
The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more ...
The happier I am, the better my skin is. Any woman knows when they are over exerting themselves, whether it is emotionally or physically, you ...
Evolve? Like a Pokemon?' I have no idea why I say this. I think I'm kind of going into shock, and the first thing that ...
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
For the foreseeable future, we're going to need oil products because I don't like the idea of hydrogen cars. I'm not sure I want to ...
Tell me I'm not crazy, He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on ...
Chicharito must have icicles flowing through his veins
Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to ...
I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ...
I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.
When you are having a really crappy day, and life seems to be kicking your ass, try to force your self to laugh. If you ...
In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.
Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the ...
It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" that one's own time ...
No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
Sam's hand brushed her shoulder, and she almost jumped out of her skin as he brought his mouth close to her ear and murmured, "You ...
Azhrarn the Beautiful," said Chuz lovingly, "it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.
The five-foot blade crushed Strabonus' casque and skull, and the king's charger reared screaming, hurling a limp and sprawling corpse from the saddle. A great ...
About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated ...
Forget about counting calories," she would always advise them. "Once you develop a knack for choosing the proper ingredients and eating in moderation, you don't ...
Until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and ... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are ...
For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be picked up.
A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.
Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why ...
They who are at work abroad are not cold, but rather it is they who sit shivering in houses.
Conservatives, come out of the closet
I'd never been around a capella or really knew much about it. I feel like I know a lot about music, but what I didn't ...
The sociological imagination refers to the ability of some to learn - often with good luck or coaching or perhaps with formal schooling - to ...
Andy Anderson has written an autobiography in pictures, a life on the water. Salt is an eloquent modern paean to the strength and beauty of ...
God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, ...
Patients with various other types of movement disorders may also be able to pick up the rhythmic movement or kinetic melody of an animal, so, ...
In my perfect world order, it is cold all the time. Everyone wears sweaters and drinks coffee. People don't speak to each other; they read ...
Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a ...
Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well ...
Well, I'II tell ya, it makes no difference if you came from the city. And it don't matter if you came from the country. And ...
You are my father," she said to Averill. "And you are my grandmother," she said to Elena. "And you are duty-bound to me," she said ...
Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority ...
I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something in me gave ...
By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so ...
In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting ...
We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented and we genuinely like to invent
Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain ...
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at ...
I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to ...
Carthya's not my country," I said, reaching for the doors to leave. "Frankly, I hope Avenia Destroys it
Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a ...
Humans don't leap buildings. Stuntmen with harnesses do. And won't my crashing eight stories to the ground be detrimental to the mission? The dark elves ...
A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ...
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then ...
Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a ...
All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle ...
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we ...
When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no ...
A closed door really is an open door in disguise.
I was initially cast as Corporal Hicks, and I was fired after a couple weeks of filming because I got busted for possession of drugs, ...
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The attendant walked closer. "Where'd you come from, soldier?" Tree tried to think of a recent war and coudn't, so he said, "Canada." The attendant ...
I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to ...
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of ...
That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice.
And may you always remember that obstacles in the path are not obstacles, they ARE the path.
But we all live somewhere and must swim in the water around us. I can't help but deal with the realities of life as I ...
The pursuit of a greater self is a holy-being.
Slain in the spirit is a term used in charismatic Christianity to describe a religious behavior in which an individual falls to the floor. This ...
Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your ...
I like colonic irrigation because sometimes you find old jewelry.
In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the ...
The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything ... from me
When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created ...
Tockytock, tockytockclumped our Alpine, Edwardian cuckoo clock,slung with strangled, wooden game.
The assassin's bullet: Lee Harvey Oswald created a constitutional space for decisive legislative action, opening a path for Lyndon Johnson to save the civil rights ...
Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: ...
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?
Here in Argentina, it is easy to practice and play because we have the horses, the land, the players - everything.
I used to think that communing with nature was a healing, positive thing. Now, I think I'd like to commune with other things - like ...
Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.
The resurrection of Christ from the dead, next to the Crucifixion itself, is the most significant event in church history. It isn't a peripheral issue; ...
Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I've found something that I feel I, as 'Michael,' can be as confident in as 'Johnny' ...
Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.
The creative process isn't easy, even for chocolate-fountain people. It's more like a wobbly, drunken journey down a very steep and scary hill, not knowing ...
We were wearing diapers at the same time. We didn't grow up together, however. I was in the crib, and she was playing cribbage in ...
You can put the girl in a relationship ... ," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of ...
I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at ...