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From a place of protection to a sinister trap. I know at some point we'll be forced to reenter its depths, either to hunt or ...
The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience and with the ...
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco
I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. ...
You need to think of your quest for wisdom as a hunger that will never be satiated. The mere thought that you've arrived will spawn ...
Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of ...
Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.
For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.
Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move ...
The night-crawlers had retired, but ripe chinaberries drummed on the roof when the wind stirred, and the darkness was desolate with the barking of distant ...
I think the general's job is harder than the painter's; canvas doesn't fight back, after all.
Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you saw.
There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity.
Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools
Sometimes you may feel "I don't fit in here." Good.
Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.
THE CREATIVITY IS JUST SOMETHING THAT, I DON'T KNOW, YOU WORK VERY HARD AT, BUT PART OF YOU SAYS THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH IT. ...
There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and ...
Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don't even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool ...
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit ...
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic ...
I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. ...
Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?""Here," Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.
A damp June morning Emma accompanied them
Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got ...
When I was 9 or 10, I used to get all the lead roles because I was the tallest person. But my interest in music ...
Society is our extended mind and body.
Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're ...
Family ... a group experience of love and support.
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
I don't have children - yet! But I can imagine a love so potent that you would give your life for them. To give your ...
I inhale, and the two best smells in my world get trapped in my lungs: the salty, cool sting of the ocean in the morning ...
Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty ...
Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
So aggressive was the manner in which this question was put that at first I thought the pair of them were probably drunk: a state ...
I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and ...
Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of ...
I've always put myself intensely into my work.
Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount ...
I know they say that a picture's worth a thousand words, but it's amazing how often those words tell the wrong story.
Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.
Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...
People die of common sense
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I ...
Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really ...
S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO ...
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud ...
It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for ...
Nothing opens up the mind and the heart like books do, and so they have the power to change the whole world. That's why the ...
Show no fear! I am afraid of many things, but I cannot and will not be afraid of death!
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so ...
Character is blazing sunshine in the soul's abode, the body.
I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I ...
The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy ... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
What will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?
There would always be an expletive in a New York sentence. Even from a judge. Soderberg was not fond of bad language, but he knew ...
Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices.
So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there ...
Some people think God should in some way come to you and assist you, should answer your prayers. Why? It exists in perfect ecstasy beyond ...
There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to ...
One of those characters who in Angola are often called 'lost frontiers', because by daylight they look white, and at twilight they are discovered in ...
She's just this character to you. Both of us are! And we always have been. You don't know what goes on in our heads. You ...
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face.
Remember that common sense is not common practice, and that people who succeed are often those who do the little, everyday things that others won't.
A Dick and Jane story written in blood and battered bone.See Spot.See Spot run.See Spot run from a gaping chest wound.Run Spot run.See Detective smear ...
Our greatest threats never come from strangers but those closer to us".
There is hope in our wanting to be something better, even if we never manage it. Maybe that is what I can hold to. The ...
There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.
Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they've seen things that they really haven't - like blowing ...
He was masochist enough to want the pressure on his aching cock.
There's a tendency to look at anybody who joined the military as if they underwrote everything that happened policy-wise. That's not really the case. I ...
True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, ...
Washington ... has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the ...
When I was very young, Denmark was a very small country, and we still are, but it was then very provincial and everybody knew everybody. ...
People want to share their photos publicly with lots of people.
The smartest advertising is the advertising that communicates the best and respects the consumer's intelligence.
At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
I was scared. I was scared because I didn't realize how much I loved him until that moment. How much I couldn't live without him ...
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
The first principle of aid is respect.
I've seen him drop girlfriends and friends on a whim and never so much as think about looking back. It's not that he's cruel; he ...
I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
I'm trying. I'm going to keep trying with you.
When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, ...
Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It's like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. ...
Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.
The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm
Every man has an ego, no matter how charming he seems to be.Fare
Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.
I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE ...