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What are you wearing?" I blurt.A slow smile spreads over his face, and his gaze flickers to my chest. "I could ask you the same ...
Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a ...
You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to ...
*** You know that place in between nightmares and dreams? The place where tomorrows never come and yesterdays don't hurt anymore? The place where your ...
The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.
When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because ...
The thing about the basics is they don't really change - it's the details and the proportions that change. The shirt may be cut slimmer ...
Don Karnage-he's one of my all-time favorites. He's so brash and so bold and so arrogant-and he just doesn't know what he's doing.
Faith when looked at by the world looks like a dog chasing his tail.Chase your tail or go to hell,crazy dog wins.
It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished.Mrs. Miracle
How can I progress on the Way thanks to every day difficulties.
It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the ...
Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want ...
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Love is a place for your heart to get broken.
Really, we're just a microcosm of the human condition. Whether we're here a day, a month, a year, fifty years - our time on this ...
Don't know why folks need diamonds and pearls, fur coats, first-class tickets, island adventures when simple shit like this is the best thing you could ...
My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate ...
When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate ...
My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.
A lot of wasted time, to the Dogman's mind, but once you've been fool enough to ask for a task, you better do the one ...
The good news is that The Hangover Part III isn't a rerun like the second episode. The bad news is everything else. For all the ...
Avoid fancy words ... If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled ...
She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she ...
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have ...
A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs ...
What do you want from me?" he asked hesitantly."Your trust," i answered without any hesitation.
You can put the girl in a relationship ... ," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of ...
Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
In a respectful relationship, each person understands, "I am responsible to know what is going on inside me and communicate it to you. I do ...
I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, ...
The story unfolded quickly as I typed, in a way I was becoming familiar with. There was something about putting the truth on paper, bringing ...
When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program.
Death is a thief, the grandest perpetrator of larceny of all. It robs the potential of all the things left undone and reimburses the living ...
As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were ...
People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my ...
Her carriage bespoke an exquisite misery, a wretchedness so perfect and so absolute that it manifested as dignity, as calm. More than a dark horse, ...
I have a sickness doctors can't cure,Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,Eager, like the ...
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took ...
Hey, a disclaimer about me: I'm rude.
Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.''Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how ...
While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or ...
It is a fact of life that injustice has no color and stupidity comes in all colors. Still I am grateful and believe the world ...
Whoever writes about his childhood must beware of exaggeration and self-pity. I do not want to claim that I was a martyr or that Crossgates ...
Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so.
Pemphredo had been about to crawl off, but at that she came back and settled down, brushing off her filthy shorts. Deino crossed her legs. ...
The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, ...
We danced. Remember? I was so proud to have you there, in my arms,in front of other people. Even if you did look like you ...
Life's adventures make great reading!
If you have people do some magic, impossible thing by stroking a talisman or praying to a tree, it's fantasy; if they do the same ...
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon ...
If you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.
How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names ...
This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by ...
I've been re-created by a designer who loves to recycle. My
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua Sphere's ...
There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. ...
I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people ...
The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home.""It's better that ...
No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The ...
Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood,Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud,Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.
Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," ...
A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark and ...
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts ...
Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an ...
It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite ...
The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.
The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I ...
Given her choice of any three words to hear from Logan's lips, Maddie probably would have chosen I love you. But she had to admit, ...
We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we so want, ...
If God had a church it would not be split up into factions, and that if he taught one society to worship one way, and ...
You can change your mind, don't let your mind change you
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
Not all of our days could be extraordinary. But our lives still could be.
I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse ...
The wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay ...
In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, ...
I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, ...
Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. ...
I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them ...
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same ...
There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that ...
When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to ...
The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and ...
One of my favorite artists on Deviantart.
Alive is better than dead. Always.
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but ...
We are on the verge of losing our capacity as a society for deep, sustained focus. In short, we are slipping toward a new dark ...
If you do not have a loving concern for the environment ... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of ...
A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.
I wanted to share the realities of living with a disability since birth. My book is my attempt to promote increased inclusion and greater understanding ...