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Dear, Mr. Ajax ... don't ye know ... the fires of Hell are stoked by righteous lawyers! Tis a fact it is. All that hot ...
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
You know how really big guys are always nicknamed Tiny?" She didn't wait for any response, afraid she'd chicken out. "Guess that would make you ...
Inventions and purely human institutions.
You can't hide secrets from the future with math.
For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his ...
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and ...
Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local Masonic ...
Should. I learned a long time ago to never close my mind to possibilities. Every time I did it made a fool of me.
Be honest, Do I give off a vibe that says 'No, handsome stud, I don't want you to make a pass at me,' while at ...
You miss her?" "Every second, of every hour, of every day.
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root - Thoreau
He's such a creep. He gave me that up-and-down look with those weird grunting and moaning sounds he makes. I feel like I need a ...
The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
My friends call me Wrath," says Raffe. "My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What's your name, soldier boy?
The mouse ran up her arm, and Martier screamed again and shook it loose until it landed on the floor.
Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories ...
The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, ...
She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job ...
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded ...
But then there she is, on her own, chewing gum, pulling her hair back with one hand and getting her MetroCard out with the other. ...
I did a play in New York at the public theater, a Shakespeare play, and M. Night Shyamalan, who is the writer/director of 'The Village,' ...
Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly ...
Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre ...
I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and ...
So tell me about you. The real you. Not the you that you show to people online.
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.
You don't return your phone calls." The vampire leaned forward, tapping my doodle with a scimitar claw. "Is that a lion with horns and a ...
The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.
The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.
I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' ...
You're the most stubborn person I've ever met, and sometimes it seems like your sole purpose in life is to make mine harder, but I ...
I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
As it Were tissue of silver I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.
I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.
I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.
I am going to shoot a muffin of Marlean's head.
At this level almost everyone has the physical tools to be the best. It comes down to a few things: how bad you want it, ...
We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a ...
It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be ...
I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.
Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can ...
No weapon is sharp enough to penetrate the soul. I'm still singing and smiling and dreaming.
From Mooshum to Sonja, back and forth. They wouldn't look at each other. I'm gonna ask you to leave in a nice way, Joe.
A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!
Music is your only friend. Until the end.
Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up ...
I just don't see why the past has to matter.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such ...
The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends ...
This here is Juan Sweeting, my second," Michael said. "Goes by Ceps." They shook, the man greeting him with a grunt. "How'd you get the ...
Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of ...
Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.
Eyes, black and glistening like deep wells, narrow to two happy crescents
His master plan was already dead, as his master plans usually were.
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 ...
Who is here with you?" "Don't stop," she begged. "Who is here with you?" he repeated, harshly this time. "You are." "What is my name?" ...
I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.
You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle ...
I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.
Raysel, you told me yourself that your father wasn't my liege anymore. I don't have to obey his wishes, spoken or unspoken, and so I ...
Simplicity is not proof of truth. But since we cannever understand true reality, if two models both explain thesame facts, it is more rational to ...
It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
Small decisions made over times make big impacts.
It's only through taking risks that success can be found.
Never allow anyone embarrass you without your consent.
Some Englishman once said marriage is a long dull meak with pudding served first
Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see ...
Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his ...
Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.
Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.
As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what ...
It seemed bleakly ironic to me that someone who craved, deserved and had worked so hard to earn a tragic, early death appeared to be ...
A healthy Christian life cannot be stitched together from a series of disjointed mountain-top experiences. We need a Christian spirituality that endures the shadowy, low-lying ...
What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages ...
The two of them were like oil and water. Her older sister was forever stuck in surrogate mommy role. But Viviana had never needed, nor ...
For the first time in my whole life, I feel like I have control over the monsters in my head. For the first time in ...
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you ...
Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)[Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from ...
4: Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.
After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about ...
It is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage ...
People are going to move in and out of their office, and they're going to move up or get fired. All kinds of things happen ...
I really did have my reasons. I don't blame you for being mmpphhh-phargle.She mmpphh-phargled because he tugged her into his embrace and buried his nose ...
You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the ...
Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I ...
I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one ...
When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more ...
Here bloom red roses, dewy wet,And beds of fragrant mignonette.
He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, ...
I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.
The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects ...