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Well, you do have all those gray hairs." I point to the few silver strands coming through."They're not gray," Mom barks at me as she ...

Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.

When you are saying you want to feel good, what you really are saying is you want to feel God: I want my thoughts to ...

He felt the slowly healing polarization of his mind, matching his to hers, the alignment of all his prejudices and conceits to the lodestone of ...

Red-hot fireflies

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.

History," answered Justin, unfazed, "has had to deal with your kind forever. You don't get it. The ends are the means. You are what you ...

I never slept outside of my home.

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; ...

He was cold and wet, but somehow he barely felt it. He kept remembering Rose snuggled against his chest, the feel of her body in ...

Brilliance is encouraged but optional. Competence, however, is mandatory.

Fear is often a false prophet.

If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses,

Good storytellers are always ready for the next question.

The responses of the baby monkey are very similar to those of a human baby.

Miss Marple made the kind of noise that would once have been written down as 'tut-tut'.

16 Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich - both lead only to poverty. ...

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

I volunteered at a homeless shelter in preparation for 'Being Flynn,' and when I'm walking along the Bowery, that's the first thing that comes to ...

If you choose to be sad then you will be sad but there times you don't know why you're sad. Tears start flowing from your ...

Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my ...

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the ...

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of ...

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to ...

Doing nothing," Inez said, "is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something.

I'm always happy. Anybody that knows me knows that I'm a very happy person.

Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime.

They make a desert and call it peace'.

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always ...

A photograph can communicate a couple things - and sometimes only one thing - very well. The more you try to say with your photograph, ...

How did you kill the Ashman in the forest last year?""I shot him with an arrow.""What kind of arrow?""A sharp one."Nate rolled his eyes. "Really, ...

They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.

Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature ... create ...

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

We have decided to diversify agriculture; we decided to develop our tourism sector. We have decided to develop our mining sector. So these are some ...

Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest.

As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as ...

Pain gettin' cum spackle out of your pubes once it dries solid, you know.

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

Analogy cannot serve as proof.

I love you," Journeyman said to the lift crystal. He kissed it and spread his arms across its surface in an embrace. "I love you, ...

People are crazy to the ones they love.

The player had almost as much fun as the parent and coaches. This league is well worth the time the professionals put into it. I ...

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to ...

I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it.

The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.

What are you drinking?" "Number fifty-four; it's supposed to be a chardonnay." Experimentally, Eve sipped again. "It's at least three steps up from horse piss. ...

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out ...

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love

The ocean hides the oyster.The oyster hides a pearl.Bright armor and heavy helmetHid China's bravest girl.

Dates only make us aware of how numbered our days are, how much closer to death we are for each one we cross off. From ...

I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be ...

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over ...

If I was in my sane mind, I'd contemplate and try to find a meaning to of all this. But this is the mad world ...

I am a firm believer in serendipity - all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose ...

I may dump the whole class. Except you and Victor. " His light eyes caught mine. "Maybe even Victor.

Was he not inaugurated as President amidst the waving of flags and the sounds of trumpets, only to be martyred, as Christ was, because of ...

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?

I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that ...

Kitten?""Yeah?"His eyes were beautiful when they met mine, luminous and clear, and a long moment stretched out between us. "I love you.

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief ...

The terrors of the future will not come from the drab repressions of an encroaching bureaucracy, but from the neon lights of a thousand supermarkets, ...

Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to do on weekdays.

To the foe in the field you need not yield"

I haven't seen about half the movies I've done. You know, you've got to make a living, but some I don't get a good vibe ...

"I'm a new song and you're just a remix."

I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween.

There are teachers who say that one of the main obstacles, spiritual obstacles, for westerners is a sense of unworthiness, a self-limiting sense of what's ...

He's British," she replied in a whisper. "He thinks he's perfect.

As I look back deep into my soul...I see my dreams that will lead me forward

You...mulched him?'I bought a few extra trees, and when we ran out of room around the house, I suggested one by the road. You can't ...

I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a ...

'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do ...

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of ...

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Are we going somewhere?" "To the river." "But why?" "To see what we can see." "I really d-don't think . . ." We were going ...

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come ...

I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the ...

You had better have one King than five hundred.

The hand in the eye is the ultimate tool.

Steel is not forged in a comfortable place.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John ...

The boy is so stupid; to count to twenty-one he'd have to drop his pants.

The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are ...

We're OConchobhairs and they're our friends. Dad always said that what our name means - friend of the wolves.

I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up ...

Remember: the whole goal of conversation is to connect emotionally. So you should ask questions that elicit an emotional response. The reason so many of ...