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Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death."He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, ...
I wonder if you're fast as they say," Bessie Weasel chirruped, her hand slowly straying toward the belt."Wondering is free," Cinnabar said finally, his voice ...
My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.
Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is ...
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn't chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.
My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick ...
I am a happy healthy soul by divine grace.
The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But the ...
For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection ...
The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life ...
When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of 'being human' and the collective challenges we all ...
My introduction to cell cycle control was provided by a clear, scholarly and beautiful seminar given by John Gerhart one afternoon in the summer of ...
I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene ...
Sway says you've been taking really good care of him for me. (Claria)Well, his mom did a great job housebreaking him, so he doesn't require ...
No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization ...
Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public ...
Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and ...
It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when ...
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
Iniquum est collapsis manum non porrigere: commune hoc ius generis humani est(It is wrong not to stretch out your hand to the fallen: that is ...
Xang Xu, the name read beneath his picture. Wanted for computer fraud and various other cyber crimes. By the freaking FBI and god
In order to be a success in life you have to be willing to take a chance. Its like putting a blindfold on and jumping ...
Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and ...
Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right ...
The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.
Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant ...
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.
I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was ...
My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's ...
Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.
Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's ... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat
Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.
All those poor elves I haven't set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren't enough hats!
But there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a dim, impoverished region ...
I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my ...
I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.
I keep my feet candy-coated because I never know when one or both of them will wind up in my mouth.
It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their heart is touched, ...
I was discovering a hard truth: There's no way to catch up on sleep. When it's gone, it's gone, and the best you can hope ...
To have a director that loves his actors is something that you can see in the film and in the fruits of that labor. You ...
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me.Ella: If you think you can do ...
In the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.
The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good ...
One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't ...
What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones?
For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other ...
Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.
It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in ...
Animal experimentation has been essential to the development of all cardiac surgery, transplantation surgery, joint replacements and all vaccinations.
For a summer of drug abuse on the island of Capri, she packed a wardrobe of black Morticia gowns, dyed her hair green, and paraded ...
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.
In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread ...
You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will ...
Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy. Workin' on mysteries without any clues, workin' ...
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.
I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how ...
My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on ...
I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was ...
Me, my niggas and some Madonna hoes that look just like virgins but trust they down to go.
When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
Why, then, do the Ten Commandments include a law that prohibits a thought? Because it is coveting that so often leads to evil. Or, to ...
After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.
Better to sit at the waters birth,Than a sea of waves to win;To live in the love that floweth forth,Than the love that cometh in.Be ...
I am going to pick on 'Huffington Post.' A lot of its content is great. They are doing a lot of original content now, but ...
When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured ...
As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to ...
After all, they'd be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make.
Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from ...
And the maximum number extracted. You know what your bosses say about attachment, littl'un. Don't get too attached to me.
Creostus's booming laugh leaves gooseflesh upon my arms. He paces close to me. "Jealous, Priestess? Do you wish to compete for my affections? I should ...
We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the ...
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.
Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.
There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so ...
How small, of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,Our own felicity ...
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a ...
War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve ...
You to stay, you said no, so now you go. Capiche?" "You're such a nerd." He stood and crossed to the door. Before he left, ...
Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international ...
I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, ...
When you surrender and accept the beautiful stillness around you, when you give up all thoughts of the past, all worries and anxieties of the ...
Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
We (need to) get completely out of the way and allow Him to live His life through us in whatever way he chooses.
Cuerdos, he says. They're sane.
You can't go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much ...
Betty had her crocheting out again. The morning light winked off her needles and Olivia recognized that she was making a baby blanket.
You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum.
My brother said this to him, tapping his own forehead with his fingertips: "If you think this laboratory is bad, you should see what it's ...