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Who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted [Nwoye's] young soulthe question of the twins crying ...

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

I don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of ...

I don't fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I'm still not sure. I'm ...

Ain't nothing in this world just for the taking...A man got to pay a fair price for taking...Matter of give a little, take a little.

It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground ... A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever ...

'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with ...

Philosopher and author Dr. Wayne Dyer calls the ego "edge god out." It is the process of disconnecting with the creative, true force of the ...

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through ...

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey ...

He was the real hero in my world and I treasured him. And he loved me. Loved spending time with me.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in ...

You deserve someone who will feel you at her side without needing to see you. And I've only felt that way about one boy.

My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a ...

He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; ...

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the ...

I've never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar ...

I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. ...

Nice to know the Department employs the occasional nonmoron.

Any physical contact with her was a bonus. She could give me a noogie and I'd consider it a win.

If it's a choice between spending twenty five dollars for tickets to a movie and almost that much again for drinks and popcorn, it's understandable ...

I'd compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to ...

The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for ...

If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us

Every time she kissed him, every time he opened his arms and she crawled into them, felt like a miracle. Coming to her made him ...

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able ...

Issa knelt down in front of her, taking her hands in his. Until the end of time, I will love you. You are the moon ...

The hardest thing is to make this little space for yourself where you can think and not get inundated with other stuff coming in.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but ...

You is getting nosier than a parker.

What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I ...

Honestly some folk will take offence at anything, I met a bloke with no legs this morning while at the bus stop, all I asked ...

Nlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as ...

Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

I think you should leave [the scar]. [...] It's not as bad as you think. It will look better once it is healed. And besides, ...

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient ...

I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty ...

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or ...

When I came on the scene, there was The Nualas, who were doing character comedy, but there weren't any other women doing stand-up because Michelle ...

I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ...

Millions of women in malaria-endemic areas in Africa become pregnant every year. Malaria is a threat to these women and their babies, with up to ...

If movies and music are vehicles for emotionally "hooking" people into Hollywood worldviews, then the best countermeasure is to create more compelling, more beautiful forms ...

It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.

If you ever find yourself presented with a fork in the road of life and you do not know the correct direction, close your eyes ...

My blood singing as it courses through my body,

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

I'm not strong enough for this," he whispered in her ear - like he didn't want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. ...

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not ...

You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.[Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.]

The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready ...

Don't forget that we come into this life with out anything and with out anything we are going to leave, nothing is more valuable than ...

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the ...

I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love ...

Consider me no fool because my tongue is mad. I salt a truth with jest that it sound not dull and heavy. There is more ...

Lord, help my children to make godly friends. I know that You brought us here and You will not leave my children forsaken. I'm concerned ...

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

Nurture the qualities in yourself that you desire in your friends.

If you want to be a singer or a performer or absolutely anything in the world that you want to do, I think you should ...

I believe there are only one or two people in the world with whom one can have a true connection. When you've been fortunate enough ...

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

It's true that laptop performances can be boring for the audience. The problem is, the organizers of events are still putting us on the classic ...

All that because Promethea is a woman? All this uproar, this trembling, this resistance?Yes. No. Y-Yes ... Naynayno. Whynoyes.Yes, Promethea is a woman.Yes, but "because ...

The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying ...

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every ...

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

Sally was on the first floor reading a book, one that she normally wouldn't read, and she felt quite guilty. Twilight. She knew the series ...

Our Klutz clangs into Stop signs while riding a bike, and knocks over giant displays of expensive fine china. Despite being five foot nine and ...

So if you go to a King Tut exhibit someday and notice cracks or burn marks on the artifacts, or maybe a statue with its ...

Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth.

I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted to them, and ...

The price tag you put on yourself decides your worth. Underestimating yourself will cost you dearly.

I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart - ...

There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost ...

Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is ...

Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm ...

By nature, men love newfangledness.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation ...

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting - In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Danny, give me the phone." Isobel thrust her hand out for the receiver. "And you can forget the five bucks." "I was gonna charge you ...

The morning sun has a lesson to teach us - without judging, love everyone as he does.

It's easy to see from commercials the sorts of activities I should presumably be engaged in, but I'm fairly certain that American manhood is vague, ...

I think you need to look in the mirror if you think that's gorgeous""Ha," Andrew said, grinning."We"re identical." Adam shook his head at his twin. ...

The appropriation of history, the historicization of the past, the narrativization of society, all of which give the novel its force, include the accumulation and ...

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else ...

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

Sex has to do with your physical body, while gender has to do with your social expression of a range of masculinities and/or femininities (and/or ...

I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. ...

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.