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I love watching her, watching her uncertainty and her hesitation. And her attempts at denying what we both know she's feeling. Teasing her is going ...
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, ...
These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.
Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then ...
I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and ...
I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and ...
Today, as never before - the information media having become to enlightenment as the cereal aisle is to the supermarket - if you choose not ...
Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it's best to avoid such things altogether.
The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done in ...
You don't run from the people who need you. You fight for them. You fight beside them. No matter the cost. No matter the risk.
What I do love is the traveling ... and getting paid for it! I like being in front of a camera ... It's an outlet. ...
Knowledge counts but common sense matters.
Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean ...
Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little ...
The way you walked awayThe way you stopped and waitedAll that timeWhat was in your heart?A laugh?A sarcasm?Couldn't we be lovers?Though we have never walked ...
I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm ...
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage ...
My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic ...
[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is ...
When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.
Everything falls apart. The only thing in life that is permanent is family.
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to ...
Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)
If only there weren't so many other people in the world,' he said lugubriously.
Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.
She lived because she had been willing to die, and her conviction in herself never wavered.
The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live ...
I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.
... do not ask yourself which kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western..Divisions only lead to more ...
I love the flowers for their beauty and dazzling smile. I love the moon for its soothing light and changing style.
I'd once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her ...
From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from ...
The key to greatness is knowing when to take the hand that has been offered.
If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, ...
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
I love insects. They are amazing.
During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and ...
Self-esteem can't win you a race if you're not in shape.
I focused very hard on the dead geranium in his line of vision. I thought if I could make it bloom he would have his ...
I want to break the rules with you. Kiss you passionately every day. Make you smile when you're about to cry. I want no regrets ...
You realize you've been staring at me for the past five minutes?
Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.
To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it ...
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization ... why not permit them to be ordained to preach 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 ...
You've got to get your eyes around and see what's coming in your face.
I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the ...
Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!
Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being ...
I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world ...
The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.
Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, ...
Like a speeding trainI am passing by...I don't knowwhere I'm headingwith whom or whyall I know is thatI will never, everpass from here againall I ...
Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser
Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be ...
The Lost Tools of Learning").
Yesterday is gone, live for today and leave a legacy for tomorrow.
No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.
I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry ...
I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.
Darkness is a form of light. Remember that, before you ignite.
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the ...
I'm not sure what kind of love you mean, baby, but if you mean do I want you to be with me forever, that I ...
That's the thing about death that makes it useful. Death was always a reminder to the living to live - to live in the present ...
Father Sams, a mirthful shaman, looked at a nighted photograph of actress Lar Park Lincoln beneath his glass of bourbon con hielo.
Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of ...
Some of my college friends used to laugh at me. But no one's laughing anymore. Now, they all try to get free underwear.
Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. ...
It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who ...
I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god.
As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back.
I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.
It's a common enough psych term," I told him. "All of us shrinks talk about VFC when we get together. Very fucking crazy, Gerry.
Tis not what you crave that feeds your soul...Tis my sunshine right after the rainWhen my ravishing rays unfold.
A great mind is not sharpened by consorting with lesser minds.
I almost lost my best friend to anorexia. I am lending my voice as an entertainer, a mom, and a friend because I want to ...
I just wish you could love me more than you hate him,-Lo to Ryke
Walk in the right path.
In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.
I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I do it so ...
We are all members of one body.
You arrogant, apish, underhonest lewdster! (Maggie)
Live life like a Legend, and society will start acknowledging you as a great Entrepreneur !
Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot ...
Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ...
Bill Maher does something amazing in Religulous. He makes Michael Moore look incredibly likable in comparison.
The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best ...
No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with ...
Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, ...
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And ...
Because you see, when you're a strong person, people often look to you to take care of them. People look to you for help. People ...
. . .the home place is the safe haven, the convergence of waters, the place where the beloved dead are as real as the living.