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The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly ...
As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do ...
Not just survival but a good life, full of learning, full of love, Emilio thought, and took a step closer to the death he felt ...
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits. Diary of a Country Priest
You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.
What I'm trying to do in [Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of ...
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal ...
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to ...
IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money.
Your quick 'no' is because I refused to say 'yes' to sex. They say men think with their dicks. I hope you do not run ...
Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.
Living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it ...
The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he ...
The mad head of the house was rotting, and night was dragging her wings across the moon, tracing filigree on the floors. In the attic, ...
When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. ...
Dress for success. Also arm yourself for it.
The poem is the poet, the dreamer the dream.
Lend's dad, two werewolves, and a vampire. It was like the setup to a bad joke or something. A doctor, two werewolves, and a vampire ...
No one remembered Vladimir Semyonitch. He was utterly forgotten.
With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared ...
Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog ...
First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.
Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.
Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.
Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, ...
My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe ...
Count Duchamps: It's a wonder he didn't clank when he [Jim West] when he walked. (referring to all of Jim's gadgets and weaponry)Wild Wild West ...
If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I ...
I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones ...
There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the ...
Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to ...
Deep down in the emotional memory centers of your brain, imagined experiences build neural structures through mechanisms similar to those that actual, lived experiences use.
When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.
But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap ...
Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.
Dad, it's not optional: your daughter needs you to be her hero.
The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.
What does this research tell us? It tells us that fiscally concerned strippers should eschew contraception and double up their shifts just before ovulation.
A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party.
A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things!
You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you ...
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn ...
The taste of good coffee, so deep and complex that it was almost a crime to describe it by a single name. The sound of ...
Because when the death-dealing powers of ice and cold reach your loins, your breasts and hips and buttocks as well as your heart - it ...
In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.
The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is - they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ...
I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter.
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should ...
The Force- always may it be with you.
It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as they ...
Dude, you didn't fugue, you were just berserk. That's like comparing a lunatic to a pissed guy with goals.
We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, ...
I went from a morning of fear and panic to mind-boggling confusion, to an overwhelming sense of guilt, to stuffing a pair of socks down ...
There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying ...
Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.
One mistake doesn't define you, Julian.
Are you defending Marcie?"He shook his head. "I don't need to. She handled herself. You, on the other hand ... "I pointed at the door. ...
No cursing," I scolded him. "You're a knight. You don't get to do that. You gave up that right when you swore your oath to ...
She smashes her knuckles into winterAs autumn's wind fades into blackShe is the saint of all the sinners,the one whose fallen through the cracks ... ...
Gee, thanks Dad. I promise to be a good boy and play nice with the other kids.(Kyrian)Smart ass.(Julian)Better than a dumb ass.(Kyrian)
Pride filled him. He'd put that soft look in her eye, the purr in her voice, and given her loose limbed ease.
The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting ...
Design the life you want to live.
I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even ...
When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping!
I believe that there is a direct parallel between the condition of your body and the condition of your brain. When you release the stiffness ...
Sin isn't something that is attracted to a human being, Professor. It's the other way around.
Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, ...
Now and again, an actor will blow my mind by doing something really unexpected, like Mickey Rourke or Christopher Walken - you have absolutely no ...
It sickens me that humans, who are capable of such goodness and love, can also be the tools of horrifying atrocities, as if possessed by ...
...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day ...
Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.
One character I always thought I could play is the Thing from 'Fantastic Four.' Another character I've always loved as a fan is Colossus. If ...
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my ...
Oh my love! You are the light of love in the darkness. I am longing for you, you are my flower and freshness.
The audience, which had at first been indifferent, became more and more interested.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once ...
I think in my earlier albums I lived in my head a lot more. The issues I dealt with were all personal, depression or how ...
I feel lost in it. Lost in him. Too him. Consumed and totally intoxicated. I feel reckless. Heedless. Like I could do anything ... want ...
Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else is ...
Mama, Mama, put me to bedI won't make it home, I'm already half-deadI met an Invalid, and fell for his artHe showed me his smile, ...
The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in frolic ...
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. ...
My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and ...
You are successful when you accomplish the goals and dreams you set for yourself.
I certainly don't feel like I am desperate to run away from a film set. I love the hustle and bustle. Everything is sort of ...
Disneyland: The happiest place on earth... ...for its Board of Directors and stockholders.
Can dancing change your life? Yes. It's changed mine. What I've learned is, it's not about how good you are technically. It's about your soul ...
He [God] chooses not to intervene in the world. Why not? Because he figures he's done enough and the rest is up to us? Or ...
It is a lie that you should only speak from your heart- you ought to let your brain play a part too.
I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life ...
I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.
I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it
The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It ...