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There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

What are you?" The stranger lowered his gun. "You're one big..." he leaned over and glanced at his balls, "wow... defininely a male. Declan wanted ...

Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of ...

[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.

Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work ...

My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. ...

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.

A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will ...

It is not your mouth that sings. It is your mind and heart that sing.

Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me. If there's a hell, I'll ...

There is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue ...

But isn't there alwaysone good thingto look back on?think ofhow many cups of coffee wedrank together.

I wish they would see the real person in me. One day, they will know I'm not here for the show. My mind do shine. ...

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

AB=(1/4)((A+B)2-(A-B)2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately I have to remind my current students how to prove it.

Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms ...

If you don't think about it, it's right.

There are events you witness, or in which you participate, that forever remain sacrosanct and inviolate in memory, no matter how painful that memory is, ...

It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of ...

I've accomplished everything I wanted out of life, like way beyond my wildest dreams. Anything from here on is just icing. Seriously, if you find ...

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ...

Never had Safi seen so many furled sails. Or circling sea gulls.Cursed birds.

Knowledge is the switch that turns on the light; wisdom is the battery that powers it.

Ah. I suppose." Oh, this was deeply unpleasant. Being trapped into meaningless small talk with an idiot had never intrigued him, even on a good ...

I'm not taking a chance. I feel like I can't breathe without you. I'm just doing what I need to do to survive. It's as ...

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means ...

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same ...

In a large sense, Main Street is the American origin story. It's an evocation of the American creation tale, and the kick is that the ...

But life doesn't always turn out the way you think it will,' Robyn said, 'and that can be rather wonderful.

I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing ...

I'd rather just think of everything positively.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, ...

Reverence is an emotion that we can nurture in our very young children, respect is an attitude that we instill in our children as they ...

There is a continuity in our lives - a strain of music that flows through it all, unaltered by death or pain. It is true ...

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

When Teresa was told that she had lost summers, she made a point to curse and weep, but she wondered silently if she hadn't just ...

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, ...

You're a free-standing landing pad held together by choir claps.

We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative ...

The spiritual life is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who lifts us up into the kingdom of God's love. But ...

Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our ...

I need to be on drugs to connect with nature.

We drew our inspiration from everyday stories.

What if Theater was the Pong of the the digital Ping?A place where the live experience has an function?

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand ...

My firstborn and my baby both tried to shed me like a husk from the start, and the twins came with a fine interior sight ...

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.

Anything done in anger can be done better without it!

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

I'm very proud of my skin and my face, and I have no problem not wearing makeup. I don't wear makeup because I feel like ...

No buts, nothing. You have the ability to piss me off without even trying, but I'll fucking take a gun to my head before I ...

To go into the garden in its snowed-up state is like going into a bath of purity. The first breath on opening the door is ...

They have both loved you with a child's love, and now a man's. It is the child's love that holds you together ... cemented by ...

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with ...

Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a ...

Heaven ... a place where everything that is not music is silence.

It has become true that to know the news in a country we must read it from a source based OUTSIDE of that country. In ...

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

It's amazing how much power a smile holds. It's contagious and brightens people's day. It's also the most powerful camouflage. For that person who seems ...

That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

I'd be grateful if you'd say anything, true or not, because I ran out of ideas ... responsible or irresponsible, true or not, years ago. ...

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with ...

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and ...

If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was ...

Don't shoot me, Sidney, I love you.He had shot him right through the words that still haunted him today, the most perfect words ever said ...

You can never run from your past; it defines who you are today. But, use your Awo given intelligence and enjoy the future ... because ...

Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended.

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.

Are you sure I can't catch it? (Nick)I'm positive. Believe me, I know my zombies. (Bubba)(Nick scoffed.) 'Is it just me or is that like ...

Be true to yourself.Make each day your masterpiece.Help others.Drink deeply from good books.Make friendship a fine art.Build a shelter against a rainy day.Pray for guidance ...

There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.

Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a ...

Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and make, ...

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different ...

There's going to be a new gem in Hollywood, it's called Agron

Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody ...

Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting ...

There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is that he certainly will not work.

The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.

You know, I've always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a ...

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a ...

Do you doubt God's existence, or are you making the argument for the sake of being a skeptic?

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is ...