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The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.
I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the ...
The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good ...
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.
I knew then and there only that pretty young little things are like monsoon lilies; transient trams. Catch them if you can, but if you ...
Life is more than great sex and a nice car." "Well, yeah. But not a lot more.
Frederick left the young couple gazing into each other's eyes. Revolting, the way otherwise sensible people could carry on, he decided. Something to do with ...
It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's ...
I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or ...
Man usually believes, if only words he hears,That also with them goes material for thinking.[Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort,Es musse ...
Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware ...
I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like ...
Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
Damn little gadflies think they can buy the sun out the sky, don't they?""This particular one could probably afford it," I said grimly. "And the ...
If you want something to happen, you must make it happen, because if you really don't want it, it's not going to happen without you. ...
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.
The view from the mountaintop is not what makes you a mountain-climber; it is the climb itself.
As much as people would like to disrupt the world by going their own way entirely, you cannot change an existing system without also becoming ...
Everyone is groping and grasping," he says. "People are turning to Buddhism, Christianity, self-help, and Taoism. CEOs and billionaires run around with their spiritual masters ...
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace ...
Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.
Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
Friends are nice. You can tell' 'em stuff, but you can swear like a gangster at an enemy. And that's all right, too.
I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' ...
Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of ...
I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more ...
Life is not fair and love is not enough, but it is the only thing worth pursueing
I hate people who start conversations with facts - what are you supposed to do with that? Sure is hot today. Yes, it is.
I want to feel the surgingOf my sad people's soulHidden by a minstrel-smile.
Well If I could live my life again differently, there are things I would do and things I wouldn't do. Like drugs, I wouldn't deal ...
The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.
The custom of giving presents on New Year's Day is as old as the time of the Romans, who attached superstitious importance to it, and ...
My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong ...
No conscious person can read Peter D'Adamo's works without considering much more thoughtfully how their genetic inheritance relates to their needs for specific food, lifestyle ...
I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.
I'm attracted to people. To the words they speak, to the actions they take, to their full-bodied mannerisms and soulful gaits. I am attracted to ...
If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior ...
'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl ...
We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have ...
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ...
This time, his gaze fixed on her and stayed. The wind blew, whipping her skirts about her ankles, as if he'd called up a gale ...
Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
Guarding your heart is no different from buckling a beautiful child into an infant seat, or placing a seatbelt across your own chest before pulling ...
Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team ...
And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every ...
It's easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by ...
Necessity does not submit to debate.
The lotus symbolizes purity, because it rises out of the mud but looks pristine.
It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come ...
Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.
He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of ...
The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see ...
The girls in the stories make such fools of themselves. They are so weak. They fall helplessly in love with the wrong men, they give ...
Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true ...
I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. ...
I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that ...
There was no anger in his voice, no disappointment even. It was as if he'd given up on me. He pulled his keys out of ...
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.
Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest ...
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're ...
A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad.
My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.
You're not going to campus. You're going out to get drunk and play with other ladies' boobies. - Kye
Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.
The great white sharks with their rough, pale sides, the killer whales striped in black and white like an Edwardian garden chaise.
You do something annual every year, don't you?
Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we can ...
In fact, drinking milk and eating dairy products can rob your body of calcium and contribute to osteoporosis. If you eat dark green leafy vegetables ...
What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. ...
There is no life higher than the grasstops
We struck up a conversation, but took pains to keep to small talk at first. We touched on the most trivial of topics: I asked ...
Goliath symbolizes the vanity and the illusions of this world. They disappear in a puff
Before they could continue their sparring, Dr. Steele walked up to Vasile and asked to speak with him in private, so naturally the whole table ...
Jace told me once you'd walk all over my heart in high-heeled boots, and it hasn't stopped me.Isabelle gave a little gasp of startled laughter. ...
Wind snapped at me, warm and fragrant. The atmosphere was thick with pollen and micro-organisms, goading my body's ancient defences.
Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.
People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.
The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to ...
There's nothing sexy about Orange County.
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
Evil is evil. Big. Small. Grand. Petty. Well-justified or just because. There's no lesser or greater of it. Choosing between them does not make your ...
When I got the episode where Spider-Man meets Aunt May (voiced by Misty Lee), it was another one of those things where I was like, ...
Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way ...
Silence usually taught him more than the company of others.
I thought I would have a quiet pint ... and about 17 noisy ones.
I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.
Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something ...
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of ...
We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project to ...
I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived with it. Judging ...
Being joyful is about staying positive when everything else seems to fail.
Feel that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always ...
Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.
I say I'm an atheist but I wouldn't mind being visited by a ghost.
I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It's right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting.