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When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said:'do you want me to get them off the car?'and Lennon replied: 'No - they ...

Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our ...

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

I'm old and happy. I've had a good life.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of ...

I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I ...

Your cranky moods are mine to deal with, seeing to your health, providing you with food, dealing with your misbehaviors, fucking you, rocking you, touching ...

I'm not strong enough for this," he whispered in her ear - like he didn't want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. ...

People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity ...

But there was no use pretending: I was not the sort of person who counted blessings; I was the sort of person for whom there ...

Free huffed. "It's hardly my fault you made a hero of my father.""No," he said softly. "But every bloody time I convince myself I ought ...

The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within ...

Lower your voice," he warned, but I'd had enough. As he reached for my arm again, I wrenched myself free and nearly flattened Boy Long ...

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time ...

The best meal I was served was ribollita, an Italian bread soup at the Castello di Ama winery in Tuscany. I usually hate ribollita, and ...

But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved ...

Jimmy Finn was not burned in the calaboose, but died a natural death in a tan vat, of a combination of delirium tremens and spontaneous ...

Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved ...

Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC ... The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade ...

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our ...

There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last ...

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing ...

I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which ...

The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck ...

The only item that stood out was a pair of orange Crocs I bought one day when I was feeling particularly jaunty. I had a ...

Angel, who was filling the vats with his handful, suddenly ceased, and laid his hands flat upon hers. Her sleeves were rolled far above the ...

The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.

I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed ...

The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic ...

The determination of your own destiny is a choice that is yours alone to make.

So far, I haven't been all that impressed by your flaws. You drink more than you should, you have trouble controlling your impulses, and you ...

Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an ...

I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in ...

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from ...

A man that refuses to look beyond his comfort zone lacks knowledge".

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

I paused with the pen in my hand. "He burst into flames?""He became engulfed in fire.""Was his buddy made out of orange rocks and at ...

When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden ...

Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know ... ' he began.I knew many things, but I didn't think ...

I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that ...

The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed such a crying ...

Freedom is the decision to live and die, doing what you love.

Attraction isn't wrong. People can't help who they are drawn to and they certainly can't control affinity, as uncommon as it is. What is wrong ...

Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more ...

Thomas came last, buckling on his gun belt, which was currently hung with his ridiculously huge Desert Eagle, just in case we were attacked by ...

Every time you make a commitment to your own self-care, self-love and self-respect and then follow through, you build trust in yourself.

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please;All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie:Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;Courtesie grows in court; news in ...

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

So fuck off, netherworld. The demons can't have me. Akil can't have me. Nobody gets to tie me up and chain me down. Not anymore.

I didn't want people to wait six months to get the clothes, I wanted a very immediate, real feel to it. You see it one ...

Love and Trust God, It's a life time commitment!!!

I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo ...

I've said I won't eat meat until the whole world can eat it responsibly, which is going to be hard. It's becoming more and more ...

When i felt bobby staring at me, i looked up. our eyes met, and he held my gaze; he held my gaze like he was ...

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out ...

I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can ... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't!

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to ...

Con-tu-ber-nal(noun). One who occupiesthe same tent; a tent-fellow, comrade.The thought of Percy Prewitt as my contubernal causes me to break out in hives.-From the personal ...

A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone's success never know that their diamond is hidden as ...

I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.

Limousines with liveried chauffers delivered earnest ladies to the picket lines, sometimes in strikes against businesses which helped pay for the limousines.

Here's the dangerous thing about Jesus: He's not after your behaviour; he's after your heart. Make no mistake about it. Jesus is going to relentlessly ...

I messed up the hairdo of the greatest criminal in Chaldea.

Of all the Christbitten places in the two hemispheres, (Los Angeles) is the last curly kink in the pig's tail.

She knows that it's not my fault if I don't know how many Zs there are in LOSER.

You're a rose, the perfect flower. I'm a carnation, just a cheaper substitute.

Sinking invalids blew kisses to him from windows. Aproned shopkeepers cheered ecstatically from the narrow doorways of their shops. Tubas crumped. Here and there a ...

I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on ...

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.

Don't just get what you need; achieve what you want.

Accustomed, as it is, to think of man as a dualism of mind and body, and to regard the former as "sensible" and the latter ...

My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan ...

You're entire life is going to change. you should try to accept that, because there's no possible way to avoid it. like it or not, ...

Caring too much about someone can make you lose your own limits.

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without ...

I discovered that the real meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with you at all. It is about a very special gift. I want ...

I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a ...

In other words, the man at the ticket office had personally had intimate social and commercial progress with more nitwits, dowagers, traveling salesmen, conventioneers, old ...

We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth.[Lat., ...

Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, ...

I think, when I was little, I was a little obsessed with anything that provided luck: Buddhas, 4-leaf clovers, heads-up pennies, even - gasp - ...

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

I can'tdo it again,Nick. I can't. And I would rather give my life for you than have you give yours for me.

Dr Adams was following my orders if you want to blame someone blame me -casiusoh i do,I'm just so pissed i had extra left over ...

Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often ...

Current Muslim memories and anger about the Crusades are a twentieth-century creation, prompted in part by 'post-World War I British and French imperialism and post-World ...

All you have to do is send a message or somehow establish communication between the mind and body of the sick person. The mind should ...

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Pessimism is not good for the soul.""I sold my soul years ago.""To whom?""The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with ...