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He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to ...
Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late ...
There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.
I find it quite hard for me to pull off. It's so nice to have a tan and look healthy and glowing. I'd quite like ...
I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.
It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like ...
Rock bottom became the solid foundation of what I built my life
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
An objective without a plan is a dream.
Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.
Love is like the senses of the body.Imagine you are blind, you can see an object using touch. You can feel around it and see ...
Donald Trump is a big Christmas gift wrapped under the tree for Hillary Clinton. She desperately hopes she runs against Donald Trump. I, however, am ...
I'm a walking economy. My hairline's in recession,my waist is a victim of inflation, and together they're putting me in a deep depression!
If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity ...
Hell hath no fury like a woman deprived of her toiletries.
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's ...
Woman in heels stands a statistical likelihood of ending her evening with her shoes in her handbag, barefoot and demanding a piggyback to the taxi ...
The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.
He started low and remained there, sure that safety embraced felicity on a mattress of obscurity. He knew that vertical activity invited dazzling exposure, and ...
With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for ...
Dwarfs are very attached to gold. Any highwayman demanding 'Your money or your life' had better bring a folding chair and packed lunch and a ...
Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money ...
I feel like a man standing at the mouth of an old mine-shaft that is full of cave-ins waiting to happen, standing there and saying ...
The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.
How, I wondered, was one meant to live without killing, when killing sought one out at every turn? The world made its monsters indeed.
We are a fallen species, spitting on the gift of salvation. Humanity is irredeemable.
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out ...
Insecurity isn't an attractive quality in a man.
Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.
To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move ...
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
You can always tell a rich New York girl from a poor one. And you can tell a rich Boston girl from a poor one. ...
Well I'll Be Damned. This is funny.
No one said a word; it was as if they were waiting for me to retract my question. Jan's hand found mine and held it."What ...
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.'
You could fill an airlift to Africa with all the food generated by one dead Jew.
Homer's Iliad was the cultural encyclopedia of pre-literate Greece, the didactic vehicle that provided men with guidance for the management of their spiritual, ethical, and ...
Our tongues danced - not a waltz or a minuet, but a war dance, a death dance of bone drums and screaming fiddles.
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.
I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, ...
No I'm not," I whisper to myself. "I'm a fucking evil psychopath.
I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk ...
You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.
Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.
Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.
You chippy hunk of shit,/don't bad mouth me! I'm/the toughest guy in town, you don't know/who the hell you're in this room/with!
Leo's feels broke.
She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow.
Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.
For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.
When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time - that's ...
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help; he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the next day to ...
Look closely at this new being. Learn from him how delightful and simple life is meant to be. It's just an instant of time,
Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.
You only get one shot at a second chance.
What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.
Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.
People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera ...
Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.
Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.
Yet was a powerful word, Ned decided. Very powerful indeed.
When dreams died, the heart grew bitter.
I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it's the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction.
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
I was speechless. Which is, as you know, very rare.
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
Her father, indulgent in his concern, had opened his library to her, and at last she could read to her heart's content. In all, these ...
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me ...
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as ...
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over ...
I didn't realize that it's true what they say, that when your heart is truly broken you can feel the moment it cracks. Until just ...
He knows as soon as he turns onto their walk that she's gone. But he doesn't turn back. He doesn't regret a single day they ...
People who are too uptight make me nervous.
Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough ...
As everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.
I have been lucky and have a tight relationship with my daughter even if I don't see her as much as I did before but ...
A myth ... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of ...
We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or ...
I have always been running away from dance numbers. That's been my problem.
Entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state the
Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.
Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to ...
In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.
Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has ...
On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much ...
Stability is necessary for our future economic success.
Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman.