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The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory ... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the ...

At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely ...

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.

If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is ...

In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

The world is such a big place; staying in one town your whole life, is like never leaving your house.

It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by ...

I always try to push through fear.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the ...

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

That were not the case. Unfortunately, there is

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The ...

I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first ...

The NetI made you many and many a song, Yet never one told all you areIt was as though a net of words Were flung ...

God had pulled her through a needle's eye so narrow that this thread in front of them was all that remained.

To preserve openness of heart and calmness of mind, nurture these attitudes:Kindness to those who are happyCompassion for those who are less fortunateHonor for those ...

Carpe Diem," Keating whispered loudly. "Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, ...

I'm a crier, let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.

If you don't suffer the pain of hard work now you will suffer the pain of regret and disappointment later.

We never replace Jesus in our children's lives. We don't even do the work of Jesus in our children's lives. We do the work of ...

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in ...

I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.

#1) YOU ARRIVED HERE BY NECESSITY. YOU STAY HERE BY CHOICE.

The thing about alcohol, though non-drinkers, non-alcoholics and reformed alcoholics may falsely dispute this, is that each day, or night on booze, is a different ...

What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of ...

He was probably stud duck at the Rotary Club cookouts. I could have taken him while whistling the Michigan fight song and balancing a seal ...

Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human ...

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? ...

His wardrobe was extensive-very extensive-not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any ...

Change is scary. But you're not required to be the same person you were ten years ago, ten weeks ago, ten days ago. Hell, you ...

As cliche as this sounds, no one is going to live your life for you. You owe it to yourself to pay attention to what ...

Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

My grandpa once told me never to provoke an injured bear, especially one nursing its wounds, but sometimes the bear needs to be poked.

And so you should." He again assessed the newly replaced windows and repaired roof, then clapped Mack on the shoulder. "It's a good thing you're ...

Even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more. (About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight)

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not ...

The number was: "2 B R ...

Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

I should be terrified. I should be committed. But something about the netherling is sensual and exhilarating, more evocative than anything in my world has ...

What barely seemed to register with him was that those regular people were earning large sums of money off him, off the Dutchman with his ...

Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism.

That's it," Flanagan said, his thick hands gripping the bar and his eyes wide. "I'm getting back on the wagon and I'm never getting off ...

It was easy to tell Jamie to move on, be happy with someone else. But she saw now that it would absolutely kill her to ...

Alas, so all things now do hold their peace:Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing:The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease;The nightes ...

This was supposed to be a trip about finding my own answers (and maybe finding some great shoes along the way), not about being a ...

I wake up starving for success, and no matter how much I accomplish I go to sleep striving for improvement; I refuse to let my ...

If everything becomes weird, then I'm normal, right ?" ~Vincent Nightray

We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United ...

Nowhere am I deadlier than in a field of wildflowers.

I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.

The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love

Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence ...

There are two basic groups of German verbs ... strong and weak. Weak verbs are regular verbs that follow typical rules. Strong verbs are irregular. ...

It just seems to me there's enough pain in the world - and not nearly enough pleasure. I guess once you've had enough kidney stones, ...

He didn't ask - of course he didn't ask - but he did show up at the captain's quarters one evening after dinner looking sheepish.

Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.

And that to me is something. Coming to an understanding of who you are in the midst of discovering who you aren't.

Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.

I honestly don't know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is ...

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people ...

People are more inclined to ask what's wrong than what's right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it's the ...

In Nvengaria we would not dream of doing this. We do not punish a woman for what a man has done, and if he dishonors ...

Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor ...

I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to ...

I just hate plugs. It just doesn't seem entertaining to me. I've never plugged anything in my life on a talk show ever. I understand ...

For rock solid friendship, never lie to your friends.

My family was made of good people who did good things with what they were given. What fairness does life show in a time like ...

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and ...

To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, ...

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death.

These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some ...

I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.

Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret ...

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not ...

There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do.

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's ...

I think Albertans are progressive and forward-looking and are very optimistic, and I think they've always embraced change. Now with the economy being the way ...

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may ...

Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not ...

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will ...

If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, ...

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

I'll be in # Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location hunting. I want ...

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't ...

I'm in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing.

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.[Lat., Delere licebitQuod ...