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That bowl was special because of the blue. It exactly matched your eyes.

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they ...

On the one hand, the falsest judgments, whether based on isolated facts or only on appearances, always embrace some truths whose sphere, whether large or ...

Half there, and half not," Grimalkin said, having suddenly appeared over Burton's shoulder. "Sounds implausible to me.

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.

People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.

I always considered myself a performer. It's what God gave me. It doesn't matter if one person hears it or a million.

I don't play video games because I know that if I ever started, I'd never be able to maintain a career again.

I've never been driven by box office.

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on ...

Marriage is a partnership; not a sole proprietorship.

When I was a child, I liked to create. I was told by many I was unique. I liked that word. I liked how it ...

I love Vanguard. Sony was great too, but it was a different animal, it was so big. It's hard to get the big monster to ...

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen.

When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.

There is no doubt that someone who tries to throw a curve or pitch at any early age before he's developed, before his hand is ...

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality

We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must ...

They all had defining color running through their gray existence.

The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

I didn't like men, but I liked women.

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The ...

Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock ...

In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Looked some more. Beside the ship, cargo cranes reared up into the night sky like abandoned props from Star Wars. A

This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at ...

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was ...

Our goal is to write memorable songs. We're not there yet, but we're getting closer. Each time we sit down to write, we have hopes ...

If you take care of your body, it'll take care of you.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

Looking at him, she saw her future and felt all the ragged tears in her heart heal themselves. "I fit," she whispered in marvel, stepping ...

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

Curiosity is a restless propensity and often does but hurry us forward the more irresistably, the greater is the danger that attends its indulgence.

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with ...

You must throw away everything you have and wash yourself clean of the past; otherwise you will never be able to face the world [happy ...

Neal had nice lips.Maybe everybody had nice lips, and you only really noticed it when you stared at their mouths all the time.

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is thecapacity to listen.

She was my assignment.""From The Eye?""No, from the Boy Scouts. That Witch Dating badge just kept eluding me.""Well, you must have at least three Total ...

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to ...

In a few years the firm effort of Blazing Night combined with her tedious works on the net was changing the world. She had designed ...

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

It was 2:49 in the morning. I had never, in my entire life, felt less tired.

Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.

Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using ...

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.

Women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men are the ones shallow enough to desire an unending ...

Whatever one does without the right belief (samkit - Self-realization) will lead to karmic bondage. Even when he gives to charity or shows kindness; it ...

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He ...

They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible.

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

I'm not going to bargain in the media because I don't think that's appropriate.

Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have ...

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their ...

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve ...

As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.

Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only ...

I got to seek a great perhaps.

Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human ...

You save me every single day. You are the one thing that makes me happy. You are the only thing I need.

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by ...

You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much ...

She didn't immediately answer, and he didn't press her. Heart wounds, he knew, made one think more slowly.

Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable ""He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at ...

The only factor that affects your chance of getting a raise is whether or not you've earned it. It doesn't matter if your car broke ...

Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.

Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time

Start where you are right at this very moment, capture everything you are thankful for, and then carry on with that feeling inside. You will ...

The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel ...

Still, it is surely true of all animals, and all conscious people, that the pain we inflict on each other is in some ways due ...

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness - the setting forth in living act and word what man is ...

Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It's one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can ...

In the summer I mowed their lawns for five dollars a week; in the winter I shovelled their walks for cups of hot chocolate; and ...

Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a ...

But not we men. We weren't fit to be told. For so you women think, and hug your mysteries, getting your backs on us for ...

I need to see you," he whispered, "I need to see your eyes when I come inside you.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

It is better to know something about everything then everything about something

I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which ...

If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased ...

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't ...

He pulled her close. Your being with me makes it stop. It's like the Ming bowls - when I touch them and feel them, everything ...

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

For the past couple of nights when I'd lain down beside her, after she'd called asleep and I knew she couldn't hear me, I'd promised ...

I'll lock thy heaven from thee. O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!