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Physiologists, in fact, have calculated that rowing a two-thousand-meter race - the Olympic standard - takes the same physiological toll as playing two basketball games ...
I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, ...
I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.
With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it ...
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.
Math is made for idiots, here is what is the proccess in math class. The teacher show you few exercises, show you the formula, show ...
How do you keep a mattress on the roof of your car from flying?" "Yeah, well, I don't know how many people know it, but ...
Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams
It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them ...
The Office's prime approach to architecture ... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.
When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated ...
She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she ...
We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells ... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of ...
It's hard to get a hug wrong.
Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us ...
War is the remedy for peace.
Regular adult Americans are no more capable of doing math than they are of photosynthesis.
I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.
On Napoli, Elena Ferrante is more ferocious than Roberto Savino.
Civility is not a sign of weakness.
One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments ...
I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a ...
Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their ...
I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.
I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
Why do you want to be a lawyer, Miss Everhart?" "I enjoy screwing people over," she said. "I figure I might as well get paid ...
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the ...
Seen too much, and from what Dad had mentioned, Dust had done too much to solve his seeing too much.
If you like your existing plan you get to keep it
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in ...
Even if I turned ninety, lost my mind and forgot everytging else, the memory of the Winter prince would be a shining beacon that would ...
All that time, my fears - about identity and family and love - were misplaced. It isn't acceptance that extinguishes us, instead, it awakens us.
At all events, let us examine the position from the point of view of murder, not suicide.""Oh, all right. If you are on the scene, ...
I had not cried for Margo until then, but now finally I did, pounding against the ground and shouting because there was no on to ...
Writing is the only thing that keeps my mind away from the sad things happening around me.
Money's capacity to turn morality into a matter of impersonal arithmetic - and by doing so, to justify things that would otherwise seem outrageous or ...
Grief is an illness I can't recover from.
Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love ...
Animals remind us that all beings who walk, stand, swim, crawl, or fly are radiant, mysterious, and unique expressions of the Source. Every species, every ...
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
I like to stretch my mind by reading and writing and watching educational TV shows like The Bachelor to learn the complex mating rituals of ...
Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.
Hello, Consort,' Mauro boomed. He got to his feet, spread his arms, and curtsied.
It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny." Cath circled her spoon hand in front of her face, accidentally flicking cottage cheese on ...
The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it ...
A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved - God - without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage ...
I'm always going to have a story to tell.
I kind of became a gym rat. The more results I saw, the more dedicated I became. It is such a great feeling to see ...
Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.
At this time of year, when the temperature drops, I wear non-slip shoes, a woolen scarf and a permanent frown. Forget about global warming. As ...
You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.
Holmes had no sisters, and a man who grows up without sisters has few defences against those wiles, those innocent wiles of body, speech and ...
Healthy people live with their world.
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.
Keep life and lose those other things;
You can be so bad at so many things ... and as long as you stay focused on how you're providing value to your users ...
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its ...
Fox: It's lonely at the top.Gould: But it ain't crowded.
What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in ...
Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe ...
If I conduct myself publicly and privately in a way that is honorable, not just to the people of the district that I represent but ...
When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are ...
The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and ...
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you?
Only the dead will know the end of the war.
I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
Let's unleash Death upon this day.
All I have to do is wake up in the morning and go to bed at night, Jazz. Everything else is optional.
When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted ...
Lu felt his heart do a strange thing. It hurt. It opened. It beat.
A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aiden's mind out the back of his head, ...
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only ...
As we all know, time sometimes flies like a bird, and sometimescrawls like a worm, but people may be unusually happy when they do noteven ...
By identifying that which is disrupting our current moment of bliss, so too can we then take the logical and practical steps to amend the ...
No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come ...
It's different. When you make a house good and strong because it's your house, a place you made, a place you're proud of, it's not ...
The more I work, the more I want to work.
Change happens at the level of the individual
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His ...
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as ...
A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy ... with polio.
I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so ...
I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But ...
I give speeches at megachurches across America, and the one thing that's really striking about it is how utterly, completely diverse they are, and completely ...
You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind ...
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter ... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is ...
Where is your homework?" Mr. McNulty asked.It's with Ariel."There's no such thing as homework," I said."What?""I mean, I left it at home.
There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem ... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone ...
Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.