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Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I ...

The larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

He [Barack Obama] just seemed very firm about the change, and that's, like, his motto.

I closed my eyes, gritting my teeth against feeding into her insanity. "I've obviously lost my mind." "Me too," she agreed as though I was ...

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I ...

You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to ...

I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.

Sisters The Leaving

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little ...

Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic ...

Attention and focus are essential skills for writers in a noise-filled world.

If there is but one pearl of wisdom I have to impart to you, after all my observations here thus far, it is do not ...

Genghis Khan considered his daughters superior leaders compared to his sons, and he awarded them kingdoms that they defended tooth and nail (oftentimes against their ...

I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. More than I think you'll ever know.

There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.

It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the ...

We all either underestimate each other, or else exaggerate each other's virtues. Very few people are capable of assessing others as they deserve. It is ...

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.

All life is but a skull-bone andA rack of ribs through whichwe keep passing food & fuel-just so's we can burn sofurious beautiful.

Courage knows no gender. Courage knows no race. Courage comes from within, from a deeply ingrained sense of duty, from service to something bigger than ...

It turned out I wasn't dying on the outside. I was only dying on the inside, where nobody could see.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ...

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has demonstrated many times ...

I was seventeen when I moved to New York. I was nineteen when I joined the main company. I was going through a lot. Just ...

There was nothing yet to fear, and so he passed it off as joy, as heart-pounding, pulse-quaking joy. Not as a premonition. Not as the ...

All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our ...

When energy turns in - what Buddha calls paravritti, the coming back of your energy to the source - suddenly clarity is attained. Then you ...

Here is the rule of thumb: if you aren't giving anything up, it isn't moral and it isn't courage. Stumbles, sacrifices, inner struggle, false starts ...

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

Men weren't worth a damn in combat. They were too weak and too emotional to handle it. She

It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.

Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high ...

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is ...

Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

Cocky.""I won't deny it. Which is why this is weird for me," Romeo's voice lowered as he leaned into her. His warm breath fanned against ...

I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time

Life is short and precious and we never know what is around the corner. So you live for now, seize every moment that comes your ...

We will see every human beings as Christ and we will help Hindus to be better Hindus, Muslims to be better Muslims, and Christians to ...

I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. ...

If you smile for no reason at all you will actually start to feel happy

You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self.

Like a junkie, I was jonesing for a romance novel coupling. I needed a pulsing pillar of passion, a mammoth mail member, a cocky cobra ...

People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and ...

You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied ...

Then we'll all go to the movies or go bowling. Something normal people do.""Because we're so normal, right?"He raised his hand high and let the ...

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.

There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Everyone loves the single girl. She is the adorable needy human equivalent of a stray pet others want to domesticate.

I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a ...

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

Get away from me, you wicked treat devil."She laughs. "Wicked treat devil? Wow. You can do better than that.""Evil dessert demon?""Still lame.""Chocolate temptress of salty ...

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a ...

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

We will show an example of implementing simple fencing using a fencing token. As long as a client holds the most recent token, it can ...

All literature is protest.

Education enlightens our minds to see the world with new lights.

Koekebakker, I feel so strange inside.' 'Well you certainly smell like jenever,' I said. 'No,' Japi said, ' it's not the jenever. I think my ...

You're going to need more than an average kissing game to get with me, Cross.""Nothin' average about that kiss."She sighed. "Don't beg. It's so unTexan.

There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that 'Homeland' does. And yet, the audience still ...

In the real world, you can't just turn a page and feel better.

I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, ...

Damen pushed himself up on an elbow, and propped his head on his hand, his fingers in his hair. He saw that Laurent was looking ...

You can't improve what you are not managing, you can't manage what you are not measuring, and you can't measure what you are not focusing.

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Well, you know. It's always the end of the world.

The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that ...

The doctor said I was lucky that I ended up with only fractures. From

Community is only as strong as what it's built upon.

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal ...

Sometimes, you have to ride the wave, Kit-Cat, and see what beach it lands on. Could be warm and sunny there.

If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to ...

Our own heart always exceeds us.

A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that his ...

I sat evaluating myself.I decided to lie down.

When we're apart whatever are you thinking of? If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone? So tell me darling, ...

... he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I ...

The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

Your fear is holding you back from becoming who you're really meant to be.

We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some ...

There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think, and ...

The memories of sensei I carry with me are more cruel than sensei himself.

With kids, what you see is what you get. There's just truth in their innocence that we as adults have lost and will never regain.

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I ...