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I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above ...
To find the meaning of life, enjoy the journey, the beauty of the nature, the glint of a dew drop, the warmth of the morning ...
The ultimate thing I want to do in making music is to be able to inspire somebody else.
I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you ...
Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.
I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and ...
Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.
Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How ...
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has ...
Our doubts are traitors and make uslose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, awish is a good place ...
I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train ... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts ...
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and ...
The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.
The house had been torn down. Nothing is left but the old white fence. There used to be privet bushes everywhere. "The smell of privet ...
Be aware, then, that every human condition is subject to change, and that whatever mishap can befall any man can also happen to you.
If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with ...
The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot ...
Our most important problem is that we can talk to express our thoughts.
Capture the sacred moment.
I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a ...
He's always asking: 'Is that new? I haven't seen that before.' It's like, Why don't you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out ...
It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a ...
90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.
You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.
I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.
Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is ...
Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them ...
You're an asshole, you know that?' I asked him. It figured he would pick today to be funny and personable, but I wasn't in the ...
This is the part of the horror film where you yell at the girl on the screen,'Don't *go*. You idiot! Don't go! Why are they ...
Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is ...
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the ...
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, ...
My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.
The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people's identities. ...
I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a ...
I take my best lessons from nature, and nature says 'When something flies at your head- move.
But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the ...
But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last ...
You do not own me. I do not own you.
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
At least some of the items in a Homeric list of the aretai would clearly not be counted by most of us nowadays as virtues ...
Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.
Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very ...
Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is ...
A shard of glass cut my belly as I slid into the battered SUV, but I managed to keep the family jewels intact. I'd be ...
We're in His hands." Abby muttered the words she and Phil had said before they left for Iceland. "May God protect us all. He always ...
If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when ...
When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.
More valuable than gold, more precious than life, is mercy bestowed upon he who hast not known its soft kiss
The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.
If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia,[85] they are nevertheless welcome ...
No moon, sun, diamond, hands - fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming. ...
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If ...
Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. ...
The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth ...
Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human ...
I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I'd have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.
Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She ...
Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true."
I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole ...
Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run ...
Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.
She opened her eyes and touched her lips, as though he had just kissed them. She could taste him.
As a physician, David had private recognition, but he craved public approval. Mrs. Roosevelt had public recognition, but she craved intimacy. Each satisfied the other's ...
I have found a way to beat myselfI win by losing, something like thatI'm told that I'm stupidSo ok, I'll be stupidIf I can't register ...
Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.
I'm more preoccupied with furnishing my head than the place where I live. The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones.
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists ...
I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on me 'cause I'm paranoid about ...
When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then ...
Trust your heart and embrace the journey. You may make a wrong turn but your heart will get you back on the right path. Just ...
God is good, and He cannot be anything else.
If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.
Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.
Eating is a ritual, and rituals make things easier.
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...
I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are ...
I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't ...
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last ...
I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.
I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and ...
The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the ...
I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It ...
I want to take you upstairs, and turn off the lights, and watch your skin turn pink as I move inside you. When I've kissed ...
One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.
I felt especially grateful now having the red Moleskine to confide in. Just knowing a Snarl was on the other side to read it - ...
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know ...
I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother ...
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth ...
I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. ...
A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that ...
A man awakes every morningand instead of reading the newspaperreads Act V of Othello.He sips his coffee and is contentthat this is the news he ...
We have been called to wrestle with sin through the cross of Jesus Christ; we are not here to wrestle with the sinner. Matthew 16:24
As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.
Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.