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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same ...

Country music ... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels ...

I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. She said, "It's free with purchase." I asked her if anyone ...

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the ...

For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I ...

If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen ...

There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.

Frosty girl, plain and colorless, who protected herself against a world she disliked by a mask-like expression and a hypertrophy of intellect.

Treat her right, or someone else will,

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers ...

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the ...

I'm not sittin' down 'til I'm older. And I'm not shuttin' up 'til it's over.

You're jumping over the bench, jumping back onto the ice and you're working as a unit. Defenders can move up the ice and score goals ...

Merging like two drops of water.Together in a way that humans could never know.

I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends.

I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don't.

Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no ...

Once would have to be enough. Because a man like me could never have a second chance.

We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion was in the ...

Hey! D'you guys hear Dr. Atkins died? Slipped on some ice, hit his head, died on life support. The man who invented the all-meat diet ...

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and ...

To lose such an important listener in life is like losing my shadow. With no shadow, does a person truly exist under the sun? With ...

I have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked ourselves whether Formula ...

That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of ...

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

Anabelle knew she was feeling too much, too fast. That was dangerous. Especially with a guy like Giorgio.

A human can be a real prick but maintain the capacity for good and a good hearted soul is capable of great evil. Never judge ...

I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, ...

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

It is nearly two o'clock in the morning, and Tom Bolan is ass-over-head, military-grade, wearing-more-booze-than-he's-ingesting drunk.

In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart ... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we ...

I wonder which you are. A human ... or a demon? One day you will have to decide.

We all know what we have to do what the inkling provokes us. We have to do the right thing. We have to make that ...

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

I have a kind of unhealthy obsession with movies.

Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid ...

Some men see things as they are, and say, why; I dream things as they never were, and say, why not.

You cannot grow If you are not reading.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

His lips turned upward. Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn't say where you would be licking the salt from.

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

In this world, there's people like me, there's people like you. People like me eat people like you.

If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns ... You're not only reducing ...

The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.

Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up!

I never realized it until I watched an interview, but sometimes my brain stutters between thoughts, and for some reason it comes out as an ...

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything.

Miracles await you when you begin to serve people

I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it ...

There is nothing under the sun ... nor under the moon, no entity of intellect, that does not have to believe something about itself, something ...

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

The Great Bailout is mostly over for the banks. But for those troubled behemoths of the nation's housing bust, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the ...

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

These numbers gave Virginia's population about six times as large a proportion of gentlemen as England had. Gentlemen, by definition, had no manual skill, nor ...

Any charity that aids or supports trying to find a cure for cancer is very close to my heart. My mom had cancer multiple times, ...

Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the ...

You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babeBut you're back were you belong

Sometimes a soldier returns home and all he can do is share his story in the hopes that somehow, in some way, it helps another ...

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, ...

Abstractions about capital punishment were one thing, but the details of systematically killing someone who is not a threat are completely different.

The good man's only singularity lies in his approving welcome to every experience the looms of fate may weave for him,

My dear Lord,' I said, but not to him. I spoke to Arthur. And I watched and wept, my arm around Ceinwyn, as the pale ...

Children make the best measurements of time. It is only when I see the son or daughter of a friend or relative over periods of ...

There is no other word in the English language more life-changing than Hello

If your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him.

I just want to be entertained. The stories that have aged the best are the ones where the wolf eats grandma, or the woman is ...

Friend, have the courageTo care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead.

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that ...

It doesn't matter how strong or capable you are; if you don't have a big heart, you will not succeed.

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll ...

This is how I show my students that I love them - by putting books in their hands, by noticing what they are about, and ...

Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don't ever put off telling someone how you feel ...

We are persons who "don't know what we think until we see what we write,

This is Mr. Bucket. This is Mrs. Bucket. Mr. and Mrs. Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie Bucket.

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our ...

When anxiety comes knocking on your door, don't invite it in.

Even if most days can't be half as good as today, it's days like this that make it all worth it.

It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or ... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.

Your-no-our free will gives us choices and because we're not perfect, it's not always clear which choice is the right one ... So yes, we ...

For children, most importantly, being in the garden is something magical.

Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes ...

Front, projected a glow upon the dusky vagueness of the Common, and as I passed it I heard in

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy."

Some things it don't pay to be curious about.

I've discovered that you can't change people. They can change themselves.