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Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's ...

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

My head is like some ridiculous barn packed full of stuff I want to write about.

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin ...

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother ...

Change management is kind of a weird concept to me. We can' t control events any more than we can control the weather. But we ...

PainWaves are the sea's white daughters,And raindrops the children of rain,But why for my shimmering bodyHave I a mother like Pain?Night is the mother of ...

For me, marriage worked differently. As a single person, I never felt totally free. My commitment to my marriage freed me. No lies, no mind ...

I want to get past this. I need to. It's been too long. My life is living me.

Assassin? ... that sounds so exotic ... i was just a murderer

He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack ...

Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn't matter how much money you have come for. That doesn't ...

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool ...

I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society ...

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a ...

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know ...

If you didn't voice your opinion, [Steve Jobs] would mow you down," said Cook. "He takes contrary positions to create more discussion, because it may ...

Her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some ...

It's going to be painful.""It's a fun tradition.""So was witch-burning," Melody said. "Unless you were the witch.

I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation ...

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

I talked to him on Christmas, and again on March 5th. Neither one of us hung up the phone that whole time.

You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How ...

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know ...

The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of perfidy, but when a ...

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

I believe there is a right way to fail and a wrong way to fail.

My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for ...

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

Half my life is full of sorrow,Half of joy, still fresh and new;One of these lives is a fancy,But the other one is true.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

A ballsy killer with the body of a goddess and the mouth of a sailor - in his eyes, that was perfection.

I'm done counting days. Now because of you I'm making the days count.

Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I ...

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about ...

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn't it? By telling stories about them; true stories.

He hears men's voices, shouts, so evil and grim he hears their names: Tin Tin, Fun Boy, T-Bird, Top Dollar and Tom Tom. The sounds ...

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

This town must learn,even against its will, how much it coststo scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.So shall I vindicate my virgin motherand ...

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would ...

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

There is a game in England, or there was when I was growing up, called What's the Time, Mister Wolf? It's

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to ...

I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the ...

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If ...

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

Tears water our eyes."Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath.

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we ...

The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of ...

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it ...

I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, ...

The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in ...

God is more interested in restoring our hearts to Him, than giving us a happy marriage.

When my mother heard about this, she was furious, and she crossed Nellie off her prayer list. My dad put her on his instead, so ...

I love seeing live music.

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have ...

Dulcie said there were no cats in the Bible, but Kit wasn't sure she believed that. Why would there be horses and cows and dogs, ...

Making you smile gives me life. Making you laugh gives me hope. Making you happy is all I want, other than to keep you.

Would that I could die, reduce myself to nothing, leave a glorious name to my country, die in the cause of defending it against a ...

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for ...

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And ...

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's ...

LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they made ...

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up ...

Because what else was there for me - an aberration, an untouchable, an outsider? What could I say when I was alone at night and ...

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

You passed. Just barely. I suggest you learn to channel your emotions more carefully. You'll die if you cannot master them.

The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are ...

When we are in the darkness, we begin to feel like we have always been there. But it is not true. David reminds himself that ...

In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

I have met my self and I am going to care for her fiercely.

I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think ...

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, ...

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at ...

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I ...

What does it say?" asked my lord."It says, 'Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she used to say when we were together. Every ...

Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. ...

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the ...

Along that straight and true path there are other goals: missionary service, temple marriage, Church activity, scripture study, prayer, temple work. There are countless worthy ...

I want ten-thousand more days with you.

Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd ...

I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the ...

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

We all know the maxim "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." It's because we want the horse to ...

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done ...

Spring me from this role I play of the smothered son in the Jewish joke! Because it's beginning to pall a little at thirty-three!

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.