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And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. ...
It was late spring when Marya Morevna slid her brass key into the lock of the house on Dzerzhinskaya Street, feeling it slide, too, between ...
In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond ...
We had all these things to deal with - houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry ...
As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not ...
Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.
In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
The field as a whole is defined as a system of deviations on different levels and nothing, either in the institutions or in the agents, ...
I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.
I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. ...
Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in ...
I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more ...
I never thought of myself as a Broadway actress. I'm not really a singer or a dancer.
Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I've got grace management issues.
I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad.
No doubt this works well enough for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I can readily ...
Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.
We clean our plates, yet we're still famished - starving for something other than food.
If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your ...
High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid ...
One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force ...
If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This ...
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find ...
Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.
The light is amber, the air still; the daylilies have folded in on themselves. Soon, the hooded blue of dusk will fall, followed by the ...
It does not matter how far we have gone in the wrong direction, it does not matter how many golden opportunities we have allowed to ...
I do not just want you at your best.I almost do not carewhere your Happiness lives,but please,let me visit your pain?Take me to the placewhere ...
There's no Coastguard in France. They let the French Navy do it. They have to give them something to do. It's not good for national ...
When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: 'Fetch!'
You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have ...
Our brains are not actually duplex apartments occupied by feuding neighbors, and how we bring about the complicated act of deceiving ourselves remains a mystery.
With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has ...
The disadvantage of not being together at same place, not meeting each other personally, not able to talk with each other eye into eye, not ...
Don't go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty.
I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm ...
I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London ...
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might ...
If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. ...
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take ... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything ...
You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!
One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and bathrooms; they send ...
I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved.
A couple of our buddies from Le Pavilion had opened restaurants in the Catskills around Shan-daken and Hunter Mountain and spoke highly of the area, ...
THE SECOND SPEAKER, ANITA SALTMARCHE, focused specifically on studies of light therapy used for traumatic brain injury, stroke, and depression.
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
There's always something going on on movie sets. Even just from, you know, maybe you come in tired some days and you're not in your ...
Good girl?" he echoed in horror. "Eww. Way to waste a perfectly hot body. But ... the moment she turns slutty, I'm warning you, I'm ...
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat ...
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed ...
If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from ...
I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, ...
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as ...
I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.
I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world ...
Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang ...
Never do what an enemy expects, Dudda. We'll go in at dawn. On the flood.
I know that hunger for self-isolation, it eats u up. Disconnecting yourself from external world and longing to disappear.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
What's TGIF mean?" I
It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have an emotional response ...
I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell ...
Psychoneuroimmunology is concerned specifically with the impact of mental attitudes on the body's resistance to disease, especially exploring the links among and between the mind, ...
Don't chase ghosts. You'll waste your life and miss out on the love that's right here in front of you.
Get out from your house, from your cave, from your car, from the place you feel safe, from the place that you are. Get out ...
Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, ...
What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. ...
You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!
I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like ...
Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?
And then, one morning, you're startled to discover that you no longer feel this terrible burden. What a surprise to notice that the angst has ...
I definitely straddled the line and hung out with high-school dirtbags. I'd tell my parents I was spending the night at my friend's but actually ...
Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time, people thought that most common fibers ...
In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the ...
Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
He that hath little is the lesse durtie.
I met the girl who works at the Doubletree front desk, she gave me her number. It's ZERO. I tried to call from here, some ...
He looked like he wanted to lean down and kiss me ... YES! ... Come on!!! ... A little more ... more ... just a ...
Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.
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Because predators tend to eat the weakest of a species, they keep the remaining population strong. Without predators, herds become weak and disabled. In contrast, ...
I don't believe in revenge. It's unnecessary. I prefer using a very discreet psychological intervention topped of with a short burst of extreme violence!
An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to ...
While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new ...
Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of ...
Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.
Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near ...
I don't believe in predestined fate. The future is what we choose to create.
There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy ...
Adam glanced at me. His grin was back. I'd forgotten how easily he could wind me up."You know, Eliza," he said, "maybe you're missing something ...
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet ...
I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they ...
People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market ...
The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
Why should I waste my imagination on myself? - SERGEI DIAGHILEV