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Secret Saturdays ought to be required reading at middle schools everywhere. Maldonado gives us both voice and heart. His young characters navigate a challenging world ...

That was the trouble with not being right in the head. You couldn't always tell if your eyes were telling the truth.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where the staples have been removed and replaced, as ...

As the campfire burned to an ashy bowl of red-hot embers, the boys would ramble on, piling up horror upon horror, like cordwood stacked under ...

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday ...

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as ...

I'm sorry. I behaved like a jerk.You did.Is that forgiveness?I'm not sure. I think it's an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe ...

One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.

Every palace needs a foundation, Askeladden. Make sure that yours isn't of human bones.-Hans Peter

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

People always had one kind of animal or another inside them.

My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and ...

My father is my best friend. He's my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together.

The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts.

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he ...

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's is the voice of a wild ...

Don't allow people who say it cannot be done interrupt you while you are doing it.

Even fiction - perhaps especially fiction - has more truth in it than the author knows.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.

I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly ...

Let's love ourselves, then we can't fail, To make a better situation. Tomorrow, our seeds will grow, All we need is dedication! ...

Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place. -Charity

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

Unless somebody's actually creating something and doing something spontaneous I wouldn't find it at all interesting, to watch or to create, so, I'm trying to ...

God is infinitely bigger than your biggest problem or biggest dream. And while we're on the topic, His grace is infinitely bigger than your biggest ...

I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.

If you make it, great. If you miss it, what's there to be afraid of?

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age ... are not afraid that any truth of science ...

I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was ...

Why did humans give their offspring fake versions of predators that would happily eat those offspring? Those

When you reach out in faith, God backs you up with manifestation.

The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. ...

Everyone has a black guy inside them. Mine is a Cuban sonero who is 80-something years old and sings better than I do. His name ...

You are not wrong to be unique. You are not incorrect because you are different. You should not be sorry for being interesting.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort ...

I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd ...

NURSE THORNTON DROPPED INTO THE LONG-TERM-CARE WARD A little before eight with a hot bag of blood for Charlie Manx.

As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me and this is in retrospect ...

Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their ...

... if you give it wings, it wants to fly away.

A man must abide somewhere, a physical roof over his head is not enough; his mind needs its bearings, its points of reference, vertically as ...

To horse and away To the heart of the fray! Fling care to the Devil for one merry day!

Things were about to change. If nothing changed, I wouldn't be writing this down because this is a book about the time when everything changed. ...

And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced on it with ...

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

The funeral was not a funeral. Her family called it a memorial service, because they hadn't found Diana's body yet, but everyone in New Iberia ...

If I wouldn't have looked under the hood, I'd have never noticed the problem. But as far as I know, the problem didn't exist before ...

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

What good's slacking all the time if the ship comes apart beneath you while you sleep?

Love is a lady. Lust is a tramp.

The more you stop giving power to your excuses, the more you'll send power to your dreams.

I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.

Violent hatred of one's neighbors gives a man a permanent sense of purpose.

If we learn to be responsible for our own emotions, thoughts, and needs, then we can see other people for who they are as opposed ...

I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear ...

A block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly - and with very limited funds.

Success in SaaS depends on having a carefully designed customer centric sales organization that balances skills, processes, and tools.

The best part, however, was watching Rocky eat a pile of custard-filled, hot fudge-topped profiteroles. He could swear, after the third bite, she was going ...

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is ...

Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back on trivial distractions, ...

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefspositive or negativeare all extensions of how we define and use power.

A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.

Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached.

Trust, of necessity, is discretionary when dealing with vampyres." -- The Slayer Prince

If you are not yourself, you have nothing to offer the world but a cheap imitation of someone else.

The fact of the matter is that nationalism thinks in terms of historical destinies, while racism dreams of eternal contaminations, transmitted from the origins of ...

Don't turn a good dude who is loyal to his chick into a bad nigga by throwing yourself at him when he is already committed. ...

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

I discover real-time news far more often on Facebook than on Google News or a regular Google search.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.

It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction.

I don't care if you wear a muu muu or a tutu, you'll still be beautiful.""That's the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me," I ...

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One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him ...

When you're done shooting, the movie that you're going to release when you're done shooting is as bad as it will ever be. And then ...

Hearts don't break. They just stop working. An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.

I'm hoping that, over the years, people will come back to 'MADtv' and think it isn't that bad. We had some really talented people on ...

Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up ...

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make that happen yourself.

Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it ...

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been ...

Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.

No sex is wrong, if there's love in it.

I've never been crazy when it comes to controlling my diet. I just avoid processed foods, don't mix carbs and make sure I get my ...