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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my ...
My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He ...
I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things ...
Easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure.
I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free ...
He himself, facing a firing squad, would not understand too well the concatenation of the series of subtle but irrevocable accidents that bought him to ...
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard ...
They say there is a kind of flower that blooms only once a century, Then couldn't there be one that flowers only once every thousand ...
Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by ...
The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.
The face that feigns acknowledgment that the better man got the promotion, even though deep down you and they both know that you really are ...
The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that ...
Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge
I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you ...
Delta Airlines recently proposed giving frequent flyers a controversial perk: the option of paying $5 extra to speak to a customer service agent in the ...
Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we ...
You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.
Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is ...
When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a ...
Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.
It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ...
I go to third grade, and I'm scared to death. I'm just 6 years old, and the kids are so much bigger than me.
Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being ...
The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
And when you're a weird and awkward and paranoid person at all times, CastieCon is the happiest place on the planet.It's like, a baseline level ...
Happiness is nothing more than a state of mind that you create by the way that you process and interpret
I am sorry I have wasted (and still waste) so much time; I am sorry to be as agonizingly shy at eighty as I was ...
I told you what I wanted from you. If you're refusing, fine. I'll pull out and finish on my own. But you'll be wearing cum ...
I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain ...
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. ...
I know I know nothing, but I know more than some people ...
Don't you dare send me away, you c-coward. Who else would love my freckles? Whoelse would care that my feet were cold? Who else would ...
I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own just because I ...
Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - ...
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost ...
If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.
Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration ...
Stories are not lists, decks, Power-Points, flip charts, lectures, pleas, instructions, regulations, manifestos, calculations, lesson plans, threats, statistics, evidence, orders, or raw facts.
I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean ...
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for ...
Art is a side product of a perfect frendship or the lack of it...
The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything ... from me
Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.
Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' ...
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, ...
I've never made a bad song.
I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.
Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you ...
If you're fighting with your boyfriend, you can go to the movies and cry it out and leave happy because the ending of the film ...
Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned ... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - ...
My closet is pretty organized, I'm proud to say. It's set up by type of clothes and then by color. And then, of course, there's ...
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, ...
She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine ...
I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds ...
The sarcastic little know-it-all needs help, does he?
Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek military solutions. Terrorism is a political problem. Seek ...
My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.
I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn ...
Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style ...
A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress and only after that a friend.
I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.
True friends are like diamonds. They shine for you even on the darkest days.
Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, ...
I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.
You promised me a kiss," she whispered. "A rash comment in the heat of the moment." His face was so close she could feel electricity ...
There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his ...
Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. ...
Somehow you've been voted something for a magazine, and it's a complete mystery to me. I mean, I wake up and I have to look ...
You're the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.
The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty ...
The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.
As with any violent ideology, the populace must be shielded from direct exposure to the victims of the system, lest they begin questioning the system ...
If you are the reflection of light, then how can you fear darkness?
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Getting married is the most fun you can have in life. Being married sucks
Time passes, people move. Like a river's flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. ...
It would be a mistake to suppose that all Urnings must be woman-haters. Quite the contrary. They are not seldom the faithfulest friends, the truest ...
Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am ...
I'm obsessed with sparkle for men. It's so funny watching people's reaction to a disco-ball shoe!
. . . though if Fanshawe had not spoken in so unbecoming a way, Laurence would have liked to keep Carver out of it, as ...
Facing that was my ultimate fear and my biggest freedom. I was alone. I was tiny. I was no one. Live or die, the world ...
These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same ...
Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to ...
Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing ...
For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of ...
Keep your head up and heart open. And make "Thank You" your mantra of life!
I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?
He always smelled like warm wood and brandy, even when he hadn't had a drop of drink. Funny how he managed that. Funny how his ...
I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need ...
I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!