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His view of the sky spun first left then right, as though the world were trying on strange new angles for his approval.
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, ...
Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge As when the Romans came.
The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist ... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your ...
I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, ...
I know it may not be an easy thing to do, but with the right person by their side, they can conquer anything.
Never admit defeat and ask for a quick death! Die first, then admit defeat! If you are defeated but didn't die, it just means you ...
When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And ...
I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.
She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.""Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, ...
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know ...
Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.
I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
How do you keep doing that, Ford Winter? she wanted to ask. Have me swallowing back a lump in my throat one minute ... And ...
I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.
There is no risk involved.
You give me hope. Hope that even though life is really, really hard - even if it fucking sucks sometimes - that it's worth living
They dance together in a line, murmuring in swift, low voices, smiling carefully as they are too proud to give away their beauty. They are ...
Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.
I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that ...
I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.
If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything
The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and ...
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him ...
The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.
It's incredible how someone can look so right and feel so wrong. Kent is a lucky bastard.
You've got today, and today is all you need to start.
There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely ... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.
Ignore everything a politician says before the word but.
Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.
Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?
Be yourself. No one else can.
You don't know it... but you can play dumb - right!?
In the far corner of the yard, two squirrels raced up a tree trunk, their little feet scrabbling frantically on the bark. He couldn't tell ...
Unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that can keep abreast of our technological genius, it is unlikely that we will save our planet. ...
The constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whooping ...
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these ...
I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is ...
Everyone loves a comedy, my dear. It is divine.
Tattoos ... are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
What change has made the pastures sweetAnd reached the daisies at my feet,And cloud that wears a golden hem?This lovely world, the hills, the swardThey ...
If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, ...
Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.
In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get ...
If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.
My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of ...
And when you're not happy with your own life, and yourself, you can't be happy with anyone else.
Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional ...
A pound coin can go wherever it thinks it will be safest ... It can disguise itself as power or property and there is nothing ...
A young man who asks too much about clothing will find himself the subject of unflattering rumors.
After Lucca died, everything shut down. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't talk. Somehow they got me on the plane and back home.
The more risks you take, the more rewards you will receive.
Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in ...
You are supposed to be my perfect ending, but I'm just your beginning
We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.
Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.
The end of all knowledge should be service to others.
The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins ...
Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman ...
That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
Like in Facebook is simply a kiss on the check.
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Perception is created and twisted so quickly.
One more game," somebody behind her said, and somebody else said, "But who's going to be It?
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. ...
I'm going to live to be 110 years old!
Our town was small enough that I never developed a healthy fear of strangers. To me, they were exciting things, gift-wrapped and full of possibilities, ...
That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal.
If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources ...
Invest in yourself to get the best interest.
The pursuit of truth, as a form of political action, is inherently disruptive, anti-authoritarian, and dangerous to those content with the way things are.
I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.
The girl looked up, blinking, a far-off expression in here eyes. I recognized it, understood the shock of realizing the world inside your book wasn't ...
Are names more properly said to be the names of things, or of our ideas of things? The first is the expression in common use; ...
I don't necessarily want to direct because it's too much work and I don't have the attention span to stay with it that long. But ...
You're been out a few hours. E and I have been taking turns staying with you. Tayla's here. And Gem. Luc. Kynan. Reaver. Our other ...
Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.
Common sense often makes good law.
Is the love you have for me, and the feelings I have for you forever parallel, with no chance of intersecting?
Because we are self-focused, we tend to be scorekeepers, constantly comparing our piles of stuff to the piles of others. It's a life of discontentment ...
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six ...
Doomed with enfeebled carcass to outstretch His loathed existence through ten centuries,
The pursuit of love is like falconry.- chronicle of death foretold
Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it ...
Failure is the sourness that makes success All the more sweeter.
Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, ...
God is in you, I salute the Divinity in you.
I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through ...
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
Hate poisons your life.
No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day.