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I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. ...
If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union ...
If thou wilt be mine, I shall make thee happier than God Himself in His paradise. The angels themselves will be jealous of thee. Tear ...
I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.
I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my ...
Do not envy the rich; pity them. Matthew 19:24.
I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required ...
When you offer a negative thought of action, you open the negative memory-bank and you may lose all your power to persuade.
When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my ...
Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States ... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take ...
Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, "No, I'm not interested. ...
Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control ...
The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and ...
Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative ...
I love that red wine is good for you. Isn't that cool? I want to hear more of this. I want to hear more things ...
For me to help him," said Dorothea, ardently. "You have quite made up your mind, I see. Well, my dear, the fact is, I have ...
Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
Putting your house in order is the magic that creates a vibrant and happy life.
I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?
I pray you school yourself. [MacBeth, Act 1V, Scene 2]
O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.
This sentence pinned itself to my memory like moon pinned to the night sky - sometimes whole in sight, sometimes crescent, sometimes behind the clouds, ...
I can't think straight when you 're this close.
My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.
Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church ...
People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.
He discovered that his own reaction to his disability influenced how others reacted, which meant he could control how he was perceived.
I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...
One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.
I was very lucky. My neck hurt and I went to my doctor, who was kind of hip, and he said it was stress-caused and ...
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly ...
Our love is principle, and has its rootIn reason, is judicious, manly, free.
I'm out to change people's attitudes about them. Wolves are a whole lot more than just predators who feast on a rancher's herd. They're smart ...
Always looking out for me, my big sister, no matter what. Even on her dying breath.
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can ...
Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.
God does not send the problem; genetics, chance, and bad luck do that. And God cannot make the problem go away, no matter how many ...
I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the level of poverty ...
Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much ...
I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss ...
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers ... but when ...
If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don't hurt anyone in anyway or form.
The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing ...
Tragedy makes for strange bedfellows.
If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something ...
Greenness hangs, drips and sways from every branch and twig and frond in the surging luxuriance of July.
I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and ...
When I think about the fact that I get to work with stars like Will Ferrell or Kurt Russell my eyes fill with tears of ...
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
This is not a philosophy of not looking where one is going; it is a philosophy of not making where one is going so much ...
Why do you always look like you just rolled out of bed?''Because usually I have.' And the way he raised his eye-brow at me made ...
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, ...
I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my ...
People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my ...
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I ...
If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who care about us is to hand ...
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally ...
When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility ...
There was a rumor - a joke? Hard to tell at the DAR - that the fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program ...
She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and ...
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur ...
My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a ...
Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.
My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.
MOM - noun - One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy and sanity for ...
This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. ...
I guess I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break, and if it starts small, it only gets wider.
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
But even in gloom, one truth is fundamental, from time immemorial, love springs eternal.
But I can't manage to grow up and change shape. I'm still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that everyone ...
My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
I admonish Your Majesty, as the woman who gave you life and loves you like no other, to behave always in a manner that safeguards ...
'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the ...
We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the ...
A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman ...
The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at ...
People use mobile phones in this very distracting environment where you probably don't have time to watch a 30-minute film, but you might have time ...
As I passed through the gates, the blistered hands of nostalgia gave my heart a good squeeze and I realized you miss shit times as ...
Yes. They spread out to cover the entire solar system. We're trapped
It is impossible to have progress without conscience
When you send out a powerful thought into the universe, you send out ripples to all parts of it which come back to you, reflecting ...
The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like ...
When we start organizing, we tend to put tactics before reason. We see a messy space and launch a wild, full frontal assault before we ...
Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day ...
Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are very disappointed you ...
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford ...
Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man ...
I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.
Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.
She knew for a fact that she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn't going to watch the ...
My life before him was so simple and decided, now after him...It's just...After.
What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just ...
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in ...