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I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having ...
Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your ...
Make up to a good one and marry here, and your life will become much more interesting.
If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were ...
We all have very different musical DNA, and we all follow different musical paths. Yet there is a unifying quality about rock'n'roll that helps instill ...
The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe. The Monadology.
If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of ...
Do you have a name for the baby?" Nurse Melinda inquires. "Roshini," I answer. "What does it mean?" she asks. "A ray of light," I ...
Or maybe love is summed up in moments - that day in the park, the time you had chinese food by candlelight, when the boy ...
There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.
This is hell, but I planned it. I sawed it,I nailed it, and I will live in it until it kills me.I can nail my ...
There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, ...
I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to ...
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy ... to witthe wag of a dog's tail.
Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases ...
Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to ...
It seems a peculiar thing when I go to fill my own cup; it remains empty as if the liquid evaporates as soon as it ...
One of the most touching things my mother said to me was that if I ever wanted to come back to live in India, she ...
Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all.
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick ... maker.
MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT ...
I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'm very fortunate with that. That's all. Without the songs, ...
And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
The convent of the sacred order of the Blessed Ladies of the Lobster had once been a dank and dark medieval castle but was now, ...
I saw Cate Blanchett in 'Big and Small,' and it was mind-blowing. The fact that she can do theatre and is also a huge movie ...
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
My mother was real and her son was real. When he died she buried him. Now she is dead. Mother Courage and her children, my ...
I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an ...
And if one day there's distanceBetween your hand and mine,When our hands join once again,My heart and soul will shine.
Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...
We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how ...
It was Miss Stephanie's pleasure to tell us: this morning Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and ...
Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got!
In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes ...
Every small business has to become a publisher - a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.
Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.
They both began to giggle and then they fell into a side splitting round of laughter, the cleansing, complete sort of laughter only a mother ...
Sophy, strongly practical, could not feel that Mr. Fawnhope would make a satisfactory husband, for he lacked visible means of support, and was apt, when ...
I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked ...
My son is everything to me. He's the reason why I get up and I work out the way I work out and train the ...
This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey's Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on ...
There is a hole in the heart called "absence". You live in it my dear.
When I'd begun my last relationship, nearly two decades ago, I'd been unaware of the rule that new lovers must hoard the 'L Word' the ...
I make jewelry. I drink caramel machiattos. I wear Hello Kitty to bed. Of course I love romantic comedies,' I said with a smile as ...
And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some very powerful states ...
Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly ...
I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I ...
Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that ...
Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very ...
Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful ...
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
Wow. Clearly, I need to find myself an ex-con. Since prison is probably the only place in this city I haven't looked for Mr. Right ...
There is a mountain range behind the town, called the Sierra de Sangre de Cristo. It means the 'Blood of Christ Mountains' in Spanish.
Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?" He lifted my bandaged hand. Underneath all the game, my knuckles throbbed from ...
Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a ...
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand they only. Know this at last.
I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with ...
I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...
I remember his eyes. They are just like mine. Every time I look in the mirror I see him. I try not to look at ...
I found myself when I least expected you- at the same old rocking chair in the room with the same flavor of tea. The only ...
You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.
Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it ...
The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, ...
Making a ski resort out of a molehill is wonderful if you're a Smurf.
Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb's bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room's ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents ...
Never do anything that your heart tells you is displeasing to Mary; and in addition, never deny her anything that you know she would welcome ...
Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list
Who knows if there are ghosts (sorry, Grandma) or just the living, breathing memories of your loved ones, inside you, speaking to you, trying to ...
He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. "You're going to ...
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and ...
I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we ...
I lean my head into his chest, still feeling conflicted, although the close proximity tips the scale slightly on the side of seeing this beautiful ...
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its ...
Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.
Armed with my positive attitude and inherent stubborn nature, I keep my mind focused and my life moving forward. I stop to rest, pout and ...
Good God, the souls of all my tribe defendFrom jealousy!
When they throw the water on the witch, she says, "Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness". ...
You don't become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes; it ...
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they ...
My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black ...
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring ...
I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that ...
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas ...
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art.
Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.
My love for you knows no bounds.
Though we say, Love is something that knows no boundary and needs no agreement but Money can do everything ...
I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or ...
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on ...
I'd always hoped that when i said 'I Love You' to a girl, she'd say 'I Know' like Leia did to Han in Return Of ...
They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am ...
Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily stuffed.
Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in ...
Like my daddy always said, where there's a way, there's a will.
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.
I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for ...
Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock ...
His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My ...