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I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.
Nothing is quite as beautiful as seeing someone do exactly what they were designed to do, to watch someone who has found that thing, that ...
And while all of your friends are grieving at your wake, I hope the sprinkler system turns on and sprays them with AIDS, hepatitis C ...
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel ...
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad ...
Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.
Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles - yes, I could read that, but I don't ...
Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who ...
Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...
Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as ...
Men were better, or more timid. Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.
I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.
I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.
Dodie could often be seen at the club, clutching a white terry-cloth towel in one hand, her cigarette holder in the other, as she pedaled ...
A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back ...
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day ...
Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble ...
As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop's irreverence toward ...
InsomniaI cannot get to sleep tonight.I toss and turn and flop.I try to count some fluffy sheepwhile o'er a fence they hop.I try to think ...
I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Talk of treasure is as common as sand. Truth is not contained in any one grain. One must know how to sift it from the ...
People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.
When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in the future to ...
For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company-and Cahir confirmed that winning battles by ...
The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world has discovered, is ...
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the ...
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.
When I got bored, I conjugated verbs. Kissing and conjugating go well together. They're both French. No.
What is a "canty day", Dennis?''I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.''What is that?''People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.''Oh.
What if Sam's heart got broken again? As with most kids who are fourteen, it has been spackled and duct-taped and caulked back together many ...
I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of ...
We've been through all this a thousand times. I won't subject myself to the indignities of pregnancy. I won't swish crap-laden diapers around in a ...
One day a pickaninny was happy and the next the light was gone from them; in between they had been introduced to a new reality ...
Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts, unusually ...
Now, you've been dealt some tough blows along the way, but those trials don't define you. You can't let them hold you back from getting ...
The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot ...
All we know, Midnight. The best of all we know. For Chestry Valley and its master we loved. For Nana. For Sugarloaf and Brimstone Farm. ...
We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.
Rather than a problem to be solved, the world is a joyful mystery to be contemplated with gladness and praise.
It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. ...
There are two paths here on deeper level... at the first it to doubt... the second is to get confused....
I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, ...
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same ...
I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.
Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you!
Aren't you going to get up?"He put a hand on the curve of her hip, a possessive gesture that had already becomefamiliar. "No. Let's have ...
I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper. And ...
We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.
To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in ...
If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. ...
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.
...as to try to interest me about the less carnivora, when I know of what is before me.""I see," I said. "You want big things ...
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour ...
Tragedy is the highest form of art.
I can't be yours forever, Mab," I told her, the words flying into my mouth as if by magic. "I already belong to someone else. ...
A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.
Circle me and the needle moves gracefullyBack and forth, if my heart was a compass you'd be NorthRisk it all cause I'll catch you if ...
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the ...
I don't think Henrietta suits anyone, she replied. Then she offered him her cheeky smile, and Alex saw in an instant why Dunford was falling ...
If you're just starting out in the workforce, the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get started in your workplace retirement ...
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for ...
It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're ...
I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of ...
A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.
The fans that I have met so far have been nothing but supportive and extremely passionate about the books. I feel so honored to meet ...
Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.
My feelings for Liam couldn't be processed as a single thought. He'd become a symphony in my mind, composed of boundless crescendos that never reached ...
Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of ...
Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; ...
Nobody can bring peace here. It's not something you can import from America. It has to come from this place, from the people." "If
Shall be verra pleased when he's taken his damned cheroots
I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until ...
Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to ...
Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse ...
Don't fear challenges. They often give us the opportunity to strengthen our courage, faith, and inner strength.
He says to me, Ranulph, he says ... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made ...
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to ...
I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.
We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor - a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get ...
I would love to interview Michael McKean and his wife, who wrote the songs for 'A Mighty Wind,' which is my favorite Christopher Guest movie. ...
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, ...
Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the ...
But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever ...
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or ...
There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They ...
I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled ...
The clever old conniver continued to cogitate.
Jamie popped a handful of Skittles into his bottle of Grolsch. He took a swig and savoured the tangy sweets shrinking in his mouth. He ...
I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.
Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used ...
I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.
I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit ...
Keep your heart in the game and your eyes on the prize.
Nanny Ogg appreciated fine wine in her very own way. It would never have occurred to Casanunda that anyone would top up white wine with ...
You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, ...