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The look on Deathbringer's face was so obvious - so real and sad - that Starflight had the weird experience of being able to see ...
If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to ...
You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I ...
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, ...
Don't invite the friend in distress to call; just show up - and don't forget the mop and broom.
Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.
Dougless gritted her teeth.
Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way ...
Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. ...
You look like a black American was his ultimate compliment, which he told her when she wore a nice dress, or when her hair was ...
Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it ...
I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more ...
Because as Europe and the United States become more diverse, it creates an anxiety, a racial anxiety, that is reflected in declining support for public ...
I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear ...
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his ...
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began ...
When depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good money ...
Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is ...
As the tongue returns to a space left by a missing tooth.
Are you still wearing those flimsy white panties?""Yes," Story breathed. "Good. I need you to reach inside and pet your clit for me. Gently, like ...
Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' ...
The best way to clean the brain is to rip out old, noxious thoughts and plant and nurture new thoughts. It's never too late to ...
A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the ...
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there ...
Did you take your sassy pills tonight, Jules?" "Seriously, Jane. I will cut a bitch." "Where did you even learn that expression? Have you been ...
Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on ...
And you were always nothing but slime, Henry Wallace. Fancy trash
L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to ...
There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when you're living, how the fuck can you ...
The Manifestation of your dream is probably right around the corner, that is why the devil is working overtime on you trying to make you ...
A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.
How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?" Rand mused. "When she knows your name?" Dobraine did not sound as if he ...
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where ...
My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen ...
I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog ...
Poetry is more than just art, it's like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a ...
His head burst in a blizzard of seeds that hung in the lamplight and drifted slowly to the ground like a tiny division of poison ...
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi ...
Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)
Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a dreary revelation of the state of ...
Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done ...
You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.
Today, I show you Lake Como even though I don't know fuck all about Lake Como; I do know how to drive a boat. Tonight, ...
I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of ...
If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly,I'd be sorry.But I value things unpossessed.The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.
Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of them. I don't ...
To believe in what you don't know is as true as to believe in what you do know as long as life is an illusion.
Competition is created from within, when you make a conscious decision to demand more from yourself.
In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him ...
Don't be so timid! When you were a child, didn't you speak out the truth that the oldest ones kept secret? Well, you were right ...
I smiled at Logan, so very pleased with him for seeing that Domin, too, needed a slice of Logan cake, needed his attention, validation, trust, ...
Allow me to serve you, Safiya. We have spent too many years apart." "And I have spent too many hours between meals." A glare. "Give ...
When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is ...
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
I want to be a sunshine grandma.
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
A liar freely gives his oath
I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.
For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried ...
Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished ...
'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating ...
You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.
The next time you are heading out the door, pause at the mirror and make sure that what you see reflects your purpose and value. ...
For mightier farThan strength of nerve or sinew, or the swayOf magic potent over sun and star,Is love, though oft to agony distrest,And though his ...
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun ... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with ...
The light of revelation does not descend on us perpendicularly from above; it comes through worldly media by the power of God's Spirit, who enlists ...
Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)
I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.
My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.
I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was ...
I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and ...
Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.
Most of us are busy gambling on the most dangerous risk of all - living our whole life not doing what we want on the ...
Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest." - PSALM 55:6
Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.
My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.
My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing ...
It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.
If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make ...
Is I the insomniac's question?Are you a dendrite or a dream?Between oblivion and affection,which one is fear and which protection?
Love your body, love your sexuality, and realize that you are a bad human being only if you are unkind and cruel and do harm ...
His experience of women was great enough for him to be aware that the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative; ...
Nature has always something rare to show us ... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly ...
Thought dismally. No doubt a more modest future awaited him.
As the ample Hedda, who disguised her ampleness behind a billow of yellow summer dress, told it, her life up 'til she hoisted this very ...
The system will always be here. The system doesn't change.
Fuck fate and David's fatalism. I was going to make destiny my bitch.
And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man ...
In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always ...
Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand!
It is a nice sunny day; his bunions have stopped hurting. There is always something to celebrate, in Gerrit's view.
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in ...
Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big ...