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I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write ...

You let the cops in. Thy've brought in a ram to take down the front door. A white chick in an evening gown will settle ...

To run 100 miles and more is to bring the body to the point of breaking, to bring the mind to the point of destruction, ...

His smile was sexual. Devious and tempting. Not tonight, Satan.

Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions.

The good Lord had been having a very creative day when he made Connor McKenzie

Only a fool trys to outsmart smart people, and anyone that trys to fool fools is himself already one. ~William Faulkner~

In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily ...

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in ...

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell ...

I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I've done it all. I've worked as a clown, literally, at children's parties.

Techniques are like tools: The more you have, the more options for getting a job done - but you have to know what you are ...

When two wise men are blaming one another,then time has come for you to be the third one.

When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge.

We are continuing God's work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we ...

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

In life, we tend to get what we expect. Start expecting the best. Since life is a do-it-to-yourself project, why not believe in miracles? You ...

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

Everyone has itTo know what it is.Take a journey deep withinAnd open your eyes wide.Then you will see everything.

For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to ...

To begin with, your body does not have a lot of sugar to use as energy. Of the approximately 160,000 calories stored in the body, ...

The reservist is twice the citizen.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

O that I were your lover for a month or two, he murmured,I would make that pretty heart's blood of yours ache in a fortnight.

Bullies are masters at holding others responsible for their misbehavior. Instead of claiming "the devil made me do it", they argue "You made me do ...

Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.

Oh, I know: If you're fat, let's not blame you, let's sue McDonalds! Oh, for cryin' out loud, hey, if you smoke, not your fault, ...

CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.

Detachment doesn't mean avoiding things and going to Himalayas. It means doing what is necessary without drowning in it.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy.

The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has ...

I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.

- you can't even find any two Alexandrian Bibles that agree with each other.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

Are you having a midlife crisis?""You'll be having an end of life crisis if you say that again," he threatened.

People in love live longer lives.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

Why is it that self-confidence is so often cocky and self-assured so often selfish? Neither has to be true. Having confidence doesn't require being superior ...

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

You can't afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.

We all shine on in the moon and the stars and the sun.

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

I learned something in the years I spent among suicide bombers ... The boys and girls who are willing to blow up their lives are ...

Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel - and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

It was amazing, even, to think that the only thing left to people in their despair was reading.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by ...

Blessed is the man [1] who a walks not in b the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in c the way of sinners, nor ...

I know that people get angry and I'm generally a fan of emotions. And to be real, it makes great television. A debate where everybody ...

Say, there's plenty of Americans on this train. They've got seven cars of them from Dayton, Ohio.

If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, ...

The smell of books soothed his soul like nothing else could. The store was his haven, his refuge, and most importantly, it was safe. Here ...

Time can be used to convert anything

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science ... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum ...

Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous ... and not in a good way.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it ...

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

And God made two great lights, great for their useTo man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night ...

The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel ...

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men? ... Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I ...

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

Did they look like anyone we know? For example ... a cross between Pippi Longstocking and the Wicked Witch of the West would obviously give ...

NASA's training philosophy is "no surprises." So what they did is put a simulator on Earth where it looks exactly the same as a shuttle ...

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to ...

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules ...

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that ...

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ...

So here I was trying to get married to a man who hadn't really asked me, with a boss that didn't want me to and ...

Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the ...

You are nowIn London, that great sea, whose ebb and flowAt once is deaf and loud, and on the shoreVomits its wrecks, and still howls ...

I knew tht we all have the capacity to act in self-destructive ways, nevertheless i had a kind of faith that the desire to live ...

Open your eyes that you might see that all things are possible through you (with God's help)

First, you find the "market capitalization" ("market cap" for short) by multiplying the number of shares outstanding (let's say 100 million) by the current stock ...

Krishna taught in the Bhadavad Gita: 'karmanyeva-adhikaraste ma phalesu kadachana', which means, 'Be active, never be inactive, and don't react to the outcome of the ...

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot ...

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge ...

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, ...

Consumers do not buy products. They buy product benefits.

You just have to promise me one thing. Promise you won't ever let me down." "I won't." "Don't ever let me go." "I promise, I ...

It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or ...

However, your life is nothing more than the outpicturing of your deepest imagination.

It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I ...

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.

Yeah, I do. Matthias is right. Wow. That tasted like battery acid, mixed with jalapeno cyanide and shoved down my throat with a spiked spoon.

Before she left, she said, Just remember one thing: Going along with something doesn't mean you give in to it.[ ... ]

Diplomatic," Barabas said. "Fuck diplomatic.