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I like my whiskey neat and strong just as I like my women. Women who have matured in their minds and bodies; women who have ...
I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, ...
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly ...
Nights are the worst. You just don't know what it's like for me, trying not to think of [him] ... knowing that we're going to ...
What a nice neat deep trench,' I said. 'Er - should Nefret be down in it?''She thought she saw a skull,' Ramses said. 'You know ...
I know we were kids at Brown. But there's no one I've met before you, or since, who even came close to completing my heart. ...
Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.
A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no ...
I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I ...
[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.
She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to ...
Every house, to be a true home, needs a mistress.
Judge people by how they stand there and do nothing when bad shit happens. (157)
In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and ...
She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. ...
The night it fallsThe stars shine throughThe inky blackThat is the cueFor plot demandsThat dreams be sownThe fantasies I have aloneThe words come fastThey flow ...
I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm ...
Some say we're already damned," Nathanial replied coolly, sitting back in his chair. "So you're too late to send him to Hell." BLOOD KNOT
Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If ...
When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as ...
After all nendartaltsi went instinct and humans survive. Humans were going randomly, Nendartaltsi were clever...
I'm just getting older and better.
Nobody can deny that Apple is fashionable, and most iPhone users buy the newest so they can be fashionable. To do this right, Apple needs ...
'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!
I reframed the situation
When catastrophe strikes, we look for a signal in the noise - anything that might explain the chaos that we see all around us and ...
A report issued by the AAF surgeon general suggests that in the Fifteenth Air Force, between November 1, 1943, and May 25, 1945, 70 percent ...
Family, farewell. Yours affectionately,
Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, ...
On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. ...
He'd learned a lot in the short time he'd been with the Cahills, and one of the biggest lessons was not to hold back. Go ...
This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on ...
Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels (13:2 NKJV).
Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.
You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.
When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are ...
It has been said that nothing in life is permanent except change.
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.
The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one ...
In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's not ...
She loved at light-speed. No hesitation. No regrets. No conditions. No reservations. While he hoarded his chips and held a part of himself back, she ...
America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.
You have to stay in character in between takes.
Life is more than great sex and a nice car." "Well, yeah. But not a lot more.
The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the ...
I was surrounded by ripples and cascades of Light, rising and falling all around me, like immense waves in the middle of a huge ocean. ...
Women and men should not marry, for love is like the seasons - it comes and goes.
At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now !I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him ...
Are you for real? You can't use another friend? We can't be 'just friends'? - Liz. Hell no - Thoreau. ...
Ndamukong Suh is the best player in this generation to hit free agency since Reggie White.
A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved - God - without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage ...
All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.
A choice to listen to the chaos your mind creates or the whispers of intuitive wisdom from the heart.
Then I went to the windows and pulled them open. The rain had stopped and the night was very still, black except for the glow ...
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong ...
Why should I bother defending myself," Nesta said with lethal cold, "to a male who is so puffed up on his own sense of importance ...
There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange ...
But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You ...
It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from ...
The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story ...
It always amazed Vimes how Nobby got along with practically everyone. It must, he'd decided, have something to do with the common denominator. In the ...
Time properly invested is worth a fortune.
I knew him, you know, your beloved Novron. Ah, but yes, you already discovered that little fact. Here's something the books won't tell you. He ...
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un ...
There is always a charge, of one kind or another. *
I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin ...
In some very rare cases, an opposite-sex pair was born, and they always mated one another. Disturbing as it might sound, when it did happen, ...
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a ...
It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they're writing at all. To have ...
The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.
War did not just level, it plowed the field, raising the muck and sinking the stubble.
Some people give memories to your life whereas some give life to your memories.
Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.
A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.
No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
The Light Queen's voice stilled the turbulent waves of my soul, singing calm and grace to every fiber of my being. Neamh. Ah, there, I ...
The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.
I don't wash my hair very often. Once a week if I can. Because the more you wash it, you end up stripping out the ...
The Buddha does not see nibbana as a special, metaphysical place to go to but as a process of dissolution that one can achieve here ...
With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. ...
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.
I was the girl in the background, the just-friend, or - worse - the friend of a just-friend, the you-sit-next-to-her-in-geometry-but-can't-remember-her-name girl. It would have been ...
My favorite place in Indonesia is Bali. I was there with my family in Nusa Dua, and my kids loved it. I'm a workaholic, so ...
I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the ...
If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! ...
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
One doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one ...
How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, ...
At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they ...
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace ...
I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple ...
RIDER FOR THE FUNERAL OF AMY SCHUMER: . . . The actual body of AMY SCHUMER should be propped up on a chair in the ...
It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could ...
The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.
If we do run, you'll need four legs to keep up with me today, Edwards. Oh that's right, you've been holding back because you're English, ...
History does not have sides, although historians do.