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I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.
Napoleon, true to his word, began the work of preparing Haiti for the transfer of former American slaves, about a third the number of them ...
And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work. (Not that I ...
My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting ...
I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I ...
Twitter is almost novelistic.
Never Forget what someone says to you when they are drunk. Because Drunk words are Sober Thoughts
There is no absolute truth that the guy sitting in the cave in the Himalayas is useless, because he is at that point in his ...
Make love to me," she whispered. "If you make love to me then it is two of us. There is just one of him when ...
Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to ...
Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.
Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.
Griffon vultures, the strong, fearless creatures we called nesher that
I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding ...
I've written things about that, about how life's really big decisions aren't right or wrong, it's just that one lives different lives. No, I don't ...
Look at those vines,' he said. 'Nature is wearing her prettiest clothes.'The effect of this unexpectedly poetic observation was slight spoiled when Massot cleared his ...
Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it ...
No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...
The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.[Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and ...
Jim finished his beer and wondered how in the hell he'd found himself in the role of Cupid. Man, if those four lads even thought ...
Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.
My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
She had no doubt the man would kill her. Stupid things went skating through her mindshe'd never told her mother how much she loved her ...
To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.
Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.
Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.[Lat., ...
An eye-jangling assortment of spurious clan tartans, adorning every conceivable object made of fabric, from caps, neckties, and serviettes down to a particularly horrid yellow ...
Humans lose focus of the big picture when they're drunken in the midst of their feelings. - Tojuro Hattori
You are a change maker and nothing should clean this notice off the boards of your heart!
Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, ...
While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
I don't want to think too much about art, you see. I don't want to attend symposia, listen to papers, or discuss it at cocktail ...
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will ...
I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.
Nobody knows how fast he is until they play him. He has games when everything he touches turns to gold. (on Michael Owen)
When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
Dreams are what life is made of and although most things are improbable, nothing is impossible. Be the dreamer of the impossible and you can ...
So long as you minded your manners and kept your weapons concealed, they let you enter and leave in peace. Those who broke the one ...
Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.
You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. ...
Never act in fear nor lose hope.
I am who I am because somebody loved me.
When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did ...
I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.
Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown ...
There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live in the Southwest, ...
She'd call us her bee-utiful girls and take us for hot chocolate on Mondays, because Fridays didn't deserve all the attention. It was funny. I ...
I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable ...
I never go back on my word! That's my nindo, my ninja way!
Naodyma isn't exactly a one-temple town, you know.
Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.
In the gathering gloom only his white Nike headband and his white Nike shoes and the white stripe down the side of his dark Nike ...
A sword's a sword, a helm's a helm, and if you reach in the fire you get burned, no matter who you're serving.
I am a gypsy, Mahgen. What that means is that sometimes I do shit. On purpose. Shit, that pisses people off. And I like it. ...
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 ...
Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman.
A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows," he replied firmly. "Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are ...
To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter ...
When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that ...
But over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and ...
So why did you get shot? One of your witticisms go awry? (Nekoda)
Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a ...
I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. "Yes.The trolls.Back. With me. Cannot form. Complete sentences." I shook my head. "Yeah,so not happening."He considered ...
You think we live in Norway or something? Amir Jordan is Pakistani. There's also an Asian guy, some Puerto Ricans, and the starting left wing ...
Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.
Love does not forget!
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need ...
Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.
Everyone who has ever been sick or has ever been on medication long-term knows that when you fix one thing chemically in your body, you ...
Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to ...
I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized that ...
I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, ...
You know you're on the right road, when the right and necessary people cross your path
So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. ...
I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this ...
You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too.
Create intoxicating moments that make your heart pulsate to a new rhythm.
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I ...
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
A feeling erupted in my stomach, like nothing would ever be the same again. Like good karma was catching up with me. Like someone had ...
She sipped, unprepared for the explosion of flavors on her tongue. She looked at Ronin and her eyes narrowed. Hey. The man wore that same ...
I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird ...
People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.
The more specific you are about your resolution, the better your chance of sticking with it. Don't just say, "I want to lose weight." Say, ...
What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's ...
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears ...
Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in ...