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I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't ...

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if ...

If you feel that everything's too damn okay,then it is just a sign that something is wrong.

You seem to forget, Dickon, that we are dealing with the Spider King. Louis realized, just as you have, that it would take more to ...

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

Aside from marrying my husband and having my children, hiking the PCT was the best thing I ever did. The hike very literally forced me ...

It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

Chubs gave me a weary sigh. Frankenstein is the name of the doctor that created the monster, not the monster itself.

Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it a rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to ...

Little Miss Sassy Panties is back and I laugh out loud at her. I know she doesn't like it but damn she's fucking comical when ...

I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A ...

Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and ...

Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want ...

Let us remember ... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and ...

My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, ...

For a liveable environment:Mother Earth forgive us too many mistakes.

Coach Bryant, before you start hugging me, you ought to know that my boys are fixing to get after y'all's ass,

Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the ...

Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. Was Father Tom thinking about vengeance now? The possibility amused him. Perhaps the next time he went to confession ...

I consume music the way other people consume movies.

Olivia Proudie, however, was a girl of spirit: she had the blood of two peers in her veins, and better still she had another lover ...

Ironically, moral relativists often even pride themselves on being morally superior to others.

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the ...

Holy shit," Holden said. "Did you just magic that door open?

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more ...

Foreign audiences are used to seeing Mexico in other sorts of movies. 'Casi divas' is a step toward a more commercially successful cinema, without the ...

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass ...

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like ...

Easy payments, easy lease, easy approval. Debt is very EASY to get into, but makes it HARD to live victoriously.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an ...

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress ...

My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough ...

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father ...

An e-book can be produced and distributed at near zero marginal cost.

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic ...

Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

You can never learn Sales by reading books and watching videos, you can only get motivated by that.. To learn Sales (telesales) dial 300+ calls ...

A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big ...

The most successful filmmakers are not always the most knowledgeable ones. They are the ones who put action to what they learnt. They do, not ...

Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia should be commended for acknowledging that his views are so strong that - should the Pledge case reach the Supreme ...

Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

It's a prissy, overdecorated P238 SIG Sauer, red and black, with gold-inlaid flowers scrolling down the barrel. Morris drops the clip and sees it's full. ...

Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things ...

To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Must is the word ... You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not ... Always bear in mind that your resolution ...

My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to ...

Do what you need to do and if it hurts too much obviously don't do it.

Beck's smile is intense and sincere, a smile with, not a smile at. Mom used to say you could tell a lot by the way ...

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems ...

I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

Here I was, telling him a heartwarming story about my first and only pet, a goldfish that died the day after I won it with ...

Her husband, Rafael, who'd left her and who'd contributed not one penny to his children's welfare, was a fool of such dimensions that he should ...

Three youths in Hanover who snatched a lady's handbag in the black-out have been sentenced to death.

It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people ... Think of things in themselves.

The most beautiful sunset is when you have it with your beloved one and the most beautiful sunrise is quite the same.

The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's ...

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door.Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch" he commanded."I'm not a witch, I'm your wife" she was advancing ...

An army of lovers shall not fail.

How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been ...

Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

Writing is a product of silence.

But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself ...

I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am ...

Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone ...

Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that ...

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner ...

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, ...

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than ...

'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 ...

In his homilies, this old Jesuit always talked about desire, and how we were connected by our desires. He said the most basic human desire ...

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

One way to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access ...

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So ...

The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

Human beings weren't designed to handle the amount of stress our modern life loads on us, which makes it difficult to hear our natural parenting ...

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of ...

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 ...

But matters of that heart aren't easily won by the brain. In fact, they're never won.

When I am singing, I believe that if I respect the public, then they will respect me, and I know it. It's noticeable.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought ...

Real love comes with strings you tie yourself.

I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but ...

Yes ... I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is ... only ...

I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there ...