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Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder ...
It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because ...
Somehow, amid all the sophistication and diversions of this world, we forgot the basics: take care of business at home first, and never betray your ...
A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face ...
The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best ...
My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, ...
Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.
I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary ...
One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.
In the marathon of life negativity is never as light-footed as a dreamer's sprint.
And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting - In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.
The dynamics of the Roman Christian creed is an oscillating maneuver between covert and overt Polytheisms; between Modalism and Partialism.
He [God] chooses not to intervene in the world. Why not? Because he figures he's done enough and the rest is up to us? Or ...
It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the ...
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947
What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the ...
My daughter loves to cook. At first, I found myself making her be really neat and precise. Then I realized it's OK if things get ...
Sorry 'bout that," Pretty Boy says with a crooked grin. I don't know whether he's apologizing for our initial collision or for the humiliating near-miss ...
You can't demand that other people have manners. You can hope it, though.
As I swallowed the last bite of my bagel, my fear gave way to anger. "And just what the hell did he mean by 'my ...
I'm honestly not jealous of my wife at all - when she succeeds I'm psyched. It never occurred to me to feel threatened by her ...
There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly ...
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
Man-made fabrics? What provenance do they have? A squirt of gloop into a petri dish? Strands of plastic spun in sterile laboratories? They are but ...
I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was ...
The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.
At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna ...
I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience ...
Coitus interruptus by SWAT team. At last a form of birth control that was one hundred percent reliable.
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up ...
Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
They lined you up in kindergarten, alphabetically. On fourth-grade field trips you took your partner's hand to push past the musk ox or the steam ...
A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building ...
My champagne is gone. Do you think you are, if you'll pardon the phrase, up for another transport of ecstasy?
At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to ...
What you do every day should contribute to giving your life meaning. If it doesn't, why are you doing it?
The soul of man was made to walk the skies.
Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of wood must be ...
Finish every day and be done with it..
I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to ...
One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
If I could mimic the dynamic of any Shakespearean marriage, I'd choose to mimic the Macbeths - before the murder, ruthless ambition, and torturous descents ...
I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in ...
A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.
There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!
Write even when the world is chaotic. You don't need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ...
I promise you in [Jesus] name that if you pray with a sincere desire to hear your Heavenly Father's voice in the messages of this ...
Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough ... We have ...
Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?
The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes ...
I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up.
I think mascara is a must. If I'm going to wear makeup somewhere, and I'm doing it, it's usually really simple - it's just mascara ...
Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, ...
I'm not giving up my life. My life began when I met you.
Who are you, Mr. Knight? Are you my knight in shining armor? Or a dark prince, riding into obscurity? Whoever you are, you better reply ...
[...] Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not.
What we want is scientists who don't become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes an advocate, then ...
The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force
Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father's bosom. Pawn takes king.
Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.
I really want donuts. But not regular donuts. I want mini donuts, but I also want them to be crunchy." He sat forward quickly. "Ah! ...
Give mea moon-blanket nightto keep me warma long-gone smileto comfort mea pair of rain-blue eyesto haunt mea simple soul...to love me.
I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's ...
The person I enjoy working for more than anyone else is George Lucas. He's the best boss I ever had because he's the most talented ...
That smile of hers could seriously crash planes.
When I think of the moment I knew that my marriage to Josiah would end, there were a few moments before I really, really knew. ...
The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long ...
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his ...
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the ...
You are today the result of your thoughts of yesterday, and the many yesterdays preceeding it. You are forming today the mold for what you ...
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.
Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep;Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The ...
As Halloran parachuted over Tokyo, the Zero that had shot him down sped toward him, and Halloran was certain that he was going to be ...
I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people ...
There's no subtext in 'Harry Potter,' really; it's all magic - anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's ...
Such is my desire only to see the best parts of my partner and vice-versa that I must confess to being able to remember each ...
I would never claim to know more than I actually do nor do I have any reason to deny any knowledge I possess.
Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of ...
A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they ...
Show respect to all. If you accept that all is undifferentiated oneness, and that all things are merely different aspects of that one thing (but ...
No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...
I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our ...
The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart ...
Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as ...
It makes me wonder which tendencies are decided by birth, and which by desire.
Hillary Clinton has her own issues with just her own arrogance as a leader; that has been well known for a long time.
How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. ...
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?
Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You've just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like ...
But by degrees the flood of music drove all speculations out of his mind. It was as though it were a kind of liquid stuff ...
He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, ...
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the ...
A young lady had only one complaint about her good husband: "My husband always praises me to other people," she said, "Often I hear from ...
Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has ...