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Did that happen?" asked Shadow. "Did what happen, shit-for-brains?" asked Mr. Nancy. "The hall. The fire. Tiger balls. Riding the Carousel.

My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play ...

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is ...

Don't get angry. Get creative. Or you will not last.

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit ...

The streets were more empty than usual - everyone who had someone was probably at home, cuddling them up, waiting for the bombs to fall ...

The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds ...

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

The year is a book, isn't it, Marilla? Spring's pages are written in Mayflowers and violets, summer's in roses, autumn's in red maple leaves, and ...

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our ...

He'd always had a joke for Francis in the confessional, a 'sin' that could be counted on to cause a young priest to grin behind ...

Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found a ...

I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work.

Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.

We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and ...

No other formula gives your baby a better start in life except that stuff that comes out of you for free.

There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked

I studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school. And it ...

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What ...

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there ...

Father says it will come in time. "Time heals," he says.I don't tell him that I don't know what time is.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd ...

I find it interesting I couldn't hear The Creator's voice until I realized it was female.

What a leg. What an air. A most engaging smile.

You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it

Eureka!" Mungo yelled. It was a word that wasn't actually a word but which he'd mathematically proved to exist in a parallel realm and he ...

Today is just another normal day full of miracles, gifts, and opportunities.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

What comes first, the chicken or the egg? You start out bad, you don't really feel right, you don't have the same explosion, then you ...

Does my eye look okay to you?

If he's the person i think he is, he'll handle it just right" Tarah had said. "If not, your better off without him.

A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one.

Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

Kindness is the best form of justice.

In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.

When neurons "talk" to each other clearly, our brain is able to make sense of our lives. We make our wisest decisions when there is ...

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we ...

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

Where ever you are accepted, stay there.

What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside ...

Whatever made you successful in the past won't in future.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

Carrying a thought with dynamic will power means holding it until that thought pattern develops dynamic force. When a thought is made dynamic by will ...

To manage to smile and have a good laugh in the midst of difficult times makes you look younger.

A sense of calm envelopes me, a feeling close to rapture. Swimming is one of the best things in my life. It has never solved ...

Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble ...

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can ...

Shake hands, kids," Jack said. "Remember, humble in victory, gracious in defeat." He grinned up at her. "I feel very humble, don't you?

I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing ...

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, ...

Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.

I hate it when I have to wait the next book in a series to come out. Don't you hate it when you have to ...

I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help ...

There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point of view. I ...

I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the ...

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!'

Sometimes," Brubeck bites into an apple, "sometimes I want to be everywhere, all at once, so badly I could just ... " Brubeck mimes a ...

Only I can turn this country around.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing by following him in the overall style of life he chose ...

I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, ...

I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light.

I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Is it against the law for me to know it?

It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels ...

Luckily, I have ESP. Extra sensory presumption. It means I have this unbelievable talent for guessing and occasionally, I get it right.

We've just barely stopped being monkeys.

The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been ...

Was it wrong that I kind of wanted to do her right there? Okay, Kate. Be professional about this. Also you have a girlfriend. A ...

I don't think I'd feel any more violated if he'd stripped me bare. I might as well have lain down before him openly exposing all ...

Aster was eager for any kind of Chance. She had only wanted a chance. A way out, a greater story than the one that had ...

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.

He thought maybe the purest form of love is letting me go.

I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! ...

Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.

To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development ...

As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.

I really appreciate the way you don't appreciate me, said my subconscious as I agreed to go out with her yet again.

Your purpose ... should always be to know ... the whole that was intended to be known.

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible ...

We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in ...

Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.