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The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if ...
It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond ...
You had a talk? You think talk got us out of Egypt or Entebbe? Uh-uh. Plague and Uzis. Talk gets you a good place in ...
Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
One flower makes no garland.
(...) and, as a matter of fict, by my halfwife, (...)
I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their ...
I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don't think that's healthy.
Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then ...
From the moment she'd first seen him in the Fontaine ballroom, she'd been lost. The passionate kiss a week later had destroyed her. Even now ...
I'm not going to be part of this," said Leo. He opened his hand and dropped the flowers. Fragrant, obedient, they beheaded themselves on Saina's ...
All of what I told him was true - some people are just meant to break your heart, as if it were their sole mission ...
It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's ...
I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back ...
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.
The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.
Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops ... eventually it all catches you at the ...
Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a ...
I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
Wouldn't you rather play chess, Ma'am? ... It's less destructive of clothes.
The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded ...
I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big ...
Look, this isn't about the ring or when I ever made a hamburger, which, for your information, was my senior year of college.""Right, when you ...
I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an ...
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
With the film, you have a bunch of executive producers, directors, writers, scripts. There's, management, lighting, the union and etc. There are so many components ...
My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?
I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this ...
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know ...
My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.
The last time anyone did anything wrong in this town, Hades's men found those responsible and dragged them back here in chains. You would have ...
You do not question an author who appears on the title page as T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.
If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.
Night, and besides, was ably helped by brave comrades." "The comrades he speaks of," Ivor said, "were too busy
It wont be possible to be famouse without courage.
If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.
She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.
Why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused without good communication.
The more things you own, the more they own you.
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.
I don't think Indians have learnt much since that day. We remain as divided as ever. Everyone still tries to cut a deal for themselves ...
Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying ...
The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and ...
Memory is like a box of chocolates. They disappear quickly.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the ...
I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.
I had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had ...
My life will never be extravagant; it will be simple, but I promise it will be filled with love, laughter, and stars released from jars, ...
Fight your fears with fierce and your life becomes fabulous.
So you believe in blood sucking fangers, but you don't believe in the existence of werewolves. What kind of narrow minded crap is that?
I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that ...
When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get ...
In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish ...
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer ...
The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man's heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into ...
Here was the worst curse: he managed to force the dream from his conscious mind often enough that when it returned to him (opening the ...
Integrity, firmness, and perseverance are qualities that all should seek earnestly to cultivate; for they clothe the possessor with a power which is irresistible - ...
Things have their way of staying with you forever, haunting your sleep and giving you false hope.
We are like a Egg ...if broken by inside , LIFE begins.if broken by outside,LIFE End.
But still my fancy wanders freeThrough that which might have been.
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 ...
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual ...
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like ... but I do love food, and I'm from ...
I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.
It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!
I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ...
Buffet." "Do you know what casino she
6 Many will say they are loyal friends, but who can find one who is truly reliable?
You are demonstrating to men that they can come back and get their kids. All of those fatherless sons and daddy-less daughters and the men ...
A gleam of humor flickered in those obsidian eyes. I should warn you, Hannah: when we meet at Stony Cross Park, take care to avoid ...
To her, the name of father was another name for love.
How could anyone resist. A gypsy, an ex-forest ranger and a couple of retro sales gals." He glanced around at the ice cream sorbet colors ...
Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest ...
This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on ...
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
Now came Dr Foxcastle, sailing magisterially around the corner like a fat, black ship.
She held her hand out in front of her. "Wait.""No," I groaned and then cleared my throat. "I mean okay, I can wait.
It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk ...
I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you.""More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, ...
Our leaders have asked for 'shared sacrifice.' But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what ...
When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, ...
I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California ...
I don't know about you, but when they first introduced bottled water, I thought it was so funny, I was like "Bottled water! Haha, they're ...
Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs, restrictions, and prohibitions. ...
I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.
My feet catch the roof like the arrester hook of a fighter jet coming into an aircraft carrier.
Sometimes people let us down. Even those we love and trust the most. When it comes down to it, humans are pretty weak creatures.
The human spirit is courage incarnate, overcoming the impossible.
Life is not just to run and run, it is also not just to have fun. Life is complete when we get something worthwhile done.-RVM
Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?""Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I ...
I think the hardest thing about writing is writing.[Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, Feb. 24, 2013]