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Hungry licked her spoon and then pointed it at me. 'Aren't you forgetting the dishes?' she asked.'Absolutely not,' I said. 'I'll remember the dishes as ...
A wall of books is a wall of windows.
People always remember the worst day of their lifes. It becomes a part of them forever.
Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes ...
Macadamia nuts can be fatal to dogs, sometimes causing seizures and kidney failure.
She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I ...
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for ...
One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck ...
It's strange to hear myself described as someone with a big heart. I've blocked out a lot of the memories of L.A., but perhaps in ...
This has to be a dream. It's a dream. I'm asleep, or in a coma. Maybe he choked me last night until I fell unconscious, ...
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
You look like shit. (Vane)Yeah, well, I wouldn't date you either, asshole. (Fury)
I think fear ... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.
I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that ...
I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.
I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys ...
An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment with its roots ...
He's like a cesspool in the midst of my creative writing oasis.
When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist ...
Each of you must decide where you stand. All we ask is that you refuse to kneel. You are the people. You have the power. ...
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
When all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always ...
It was a hot summer night, and I had the soundtrack to Disney's The Lion King blasting on my stereo. Tears actually began streaming down ...
When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty ...
Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.
I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them ...
The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly ...
Master Sun So it is said that if you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you ...
Maybe that's why Heaven is silent and God doesn't speak to man anymore. Heavenly intervention would blow the point spread.
And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.
We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.
The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at ...
The vampire before me was a reminder of what I had been before Sarah had wrapped her slender fingers around my soul and grounded me. ...
Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.
The other man stood his ground, with an arrogant, insolent stance. Although it was hard to believe, clearly the idiot didn't have a clue either ...
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.
In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.
One night I'm going to have a big night scoring; some nights I'm going to have a big night doing other things. Just doing whatever ...
I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so that now that ...
I would dream of a place, a place to shelter all my madness.
Rulon motioned to me to help him up. I'd never imagined that my wedding night would involve a crash course in geriatric care, but my ...
He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair ... He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. ...
I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's ...
I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. ...
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, ...
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his ...
Do all the things NOW that you were waiting to do until AFTER your SoulMate arrived!
No, of course she didn't say it. But there is no other reason she should have called, except to pave the way for her brother. ...
How could you sleep, knowing that any second your insides might begin to rot, your skin decay to slime, your brain shrivel to dust?""I fell ...
If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.
It came down to so many factors: an underdog who refused to surrender, a presumed victor who refused to fight, disgruntled Democrats - on the ...
Soun Tendo: Drowned Octopus Spring?Guide from Jusenkyo: Is tragic tale of giant octopus who drown 1600 year ago ... somehow.
Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality
Why is that fairy-tales always treat marriage as an ending? And always such a perfectly happy one?
She gave him a wink which would have got a younger woman jailed.
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
Trust and trust alone should lead us to love
The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.
You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.
If we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill each other? Any country that ...
This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far ...
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in ...
Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.'My thoughts exactly.
The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact ...
Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make ...
Even if the job you're assigned is not to your liking, a Matelon will see it done.
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
He hadn't struck her as particularly religious unless she counted the number of times he'd called out to Jesus when he'd been deep inside her.
Although, by todays standards, he set a vast amount of work, he believed as he told Mrs Ashley, that 'If you pour much drink into ...
Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John Glenn. He orbited ...
If you salt a chicken the day before cooking, it starts to break down the cell structure of the meat and allows it to take ...
Shadows on the wall Noises down the hall Life doesn't frighten me at all Bad dogs barking loud Big ghosts in a cloud Life doesn't ...
Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My ...
Most problems in life are solved by getting up and going to work each day.
In the 16th century,parks and gardens were models of the cosmos and also tools for altering one's consciousness, possibly for changing one's destiny.
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable.
I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind of statement. Rather, ...
As if he'd guessed her thoughts, Micah said, "I've risked everything for you." His eyes spoke more than he said aloud.
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 ...
In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to ...
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
Anyone who sees clearly sees chaos everywhere. Art is a way of temporarily setting order to confusion. Temporary and incomplete; that's why we never run ...
You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.
What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can ...
The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed ...
Rose had a kitchen that was so completely alphabetized, you'd find the allspice next to the ant poison. She was a fine one to talk ...
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are ...
I've found a great hiding place for all my money, down the drain
Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.
And I told him, if I am so hard to love, then let me run wild.My love is not a testament to my surrender. I ...
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Since God exists outside of time, He also has all of the time He needs to personally act in each of our lives. There is ...
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident ...