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We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it's hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take ...

Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching ...

FIRST MORALGood manners are not easyThey need a little care,But when we least expect itBring rewards both rich and rare.SECOND MORALBrute force or bribes of ...

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching ...

Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men ...

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

Everyone, who is born on this earth, comes with a destiny assigned to him. But there are few whose fates become their fortune, like in ...

I was peace pipes and treaties. My style was to talk and duck. It was an animal tactic, playing dead in hopes that the predators ...

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an ...

She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And ...

Chrisfield looked straight ahead of him. He did not feel lonely any more now that he was marching in ranks again. His feet beat the ...

Hope is the beautiful dream of the soul.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do ...

It struck Harold afresh how life could change in an instant. You could be doing something so everyday - walking your partner's dog, putting on ...

Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

The Doctor: You betrayed me. You betrayed my trust, you betrayed our friendship, you betrayed everything I ever stood for. You let me down!Clara: Then ...

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where ...

The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dadaka the Fun-Suckeras opposed to being a friend.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. ...

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

It was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the spot and cannot ...

Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real ...

Maybe our souls touched underneath that tree. Maybe I decided to love her. Maybe love wasn't our choice. But when I looked at that woman, ...

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them ...

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn't take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I ...

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. ...

My stomach knotted, the nausea so intense I began heaving on the ground. Smell, taste; all of it evil. A darkness so pure, I knew ...

Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like ...

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me ...

Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that ...

Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

Deja Vu All Over Again

Faith seems to grab people and not let go, but hope is a double-crosser. It can beat it on you anytime; it's your job to ...

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your ...

It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to ...

Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.

I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise; simply that it makes the difference between freedom and enslavement.

And I thought: I shall remember this all my life. The peril, the running, the howling of the dogs, the smothering. Then the happiness - ...

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such ...

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

Sometimes all it takes is one Deep Breath and everything falls into place.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it ...

Desert winds blow hard at meTill we reach the shining sea.And borne away across the wavesMy lover's life I'll sail to save.

Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to ...

I love the flowers for their beauty and dazzling smile. I love the moon for its soothing light and changing style.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I ...

Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

I'm not going to disrespect you, don't disrespect me.

The whole concept of awards is silly. I cannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you ...

As I bounced her on my knee, AJ undid the first three buttons on his shirt and ripped off his tie. "I'm ready to dance.""You've ...

Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner, half drunk who ...

There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from ...

The mother I'm completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I'd like to love to death." "Heh." "Don't do me any ...

Part of the answer to the question that life's roller-coaster ride repeatedly raises, why has this happened to me? is always: it is moral training ...

I am very much a woman, but I never consider that I am when I go and make films. I don't check into the world ...

If only we could be honest, both admit our fears, touch one another...Then, it might not be so hard to die - in a hospital ...

I feel like I was born the day my kids were and that my life before was only there to gain wisdom for them. The ...

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves ...

Dear God, help him and help the mother . . . help all mothers everywhere. We need so much help, with the little sensitive, loving ...

Dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam ...

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice ...

You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He ...

If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of ...

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not ...

Dancing is my therapy. I also try to meditate every morning and take several two-hour yoga classes a week at my favorite yoga studio, Urban ...

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl ...

Oh, sorry. My excitement must be clouding my ability to judge comedic hyperbole.

Herein lies the great difference between divine weakness and human weakness, the wounds of Christ and the wounds of man. Two human weaknesses only intensify ...

Never act in fear nor lose hope.

He opened his mouth and let it loose, the blast of cold air freezing the Dark Ones instantaneously. Kiril saw himself in the mirror and ...

And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... ...

I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee.""Yeah," I said. "But I dont want to be like ...

And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. ...

My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed ...

AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with ...

I could just envision myself trying to be sexy and ending up looking like the kid from Napoleon Dynamite.

We might feel we have achieved a lot. just take a pause and look back. We will see only darkness ...

First, I think of myself as a brand, a businesswoman. Musician is something I just do because it's my passion - I love it and ...

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end ...

Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed ...

Deep down in the heart of every person is a hidden desire to reinterpret Jesus in light of our own culture, political bent, or favorite ...

Do unto others 20% better than you'd expect them to do unto you to correct subjective error.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

I believe that they who wish to do easy things without trouble and toil must previously have been trained in more difficult things,

("Tell me," a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. "Do you think God cares?")

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

Saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and ...

Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see ...