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I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.
I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' ...
Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to ...
Luck," Jeremy scoffed softly. "There's no luck.""Then what?""Your feet take you where you need to be."I thought about this. "My feet have taken me to ...
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not ...
It is frightening, how one lie is just the first strand in an ever increasing fabric of untruth. And once this fabric is woven, it ...
What you call looking like an idiot are splashes of mediatic splendor that give shine to your personality and make you more human, more likable. ...
Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.
The love for God is the love to protect the environment.
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, ...
Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you.
No one really believes in the future, do they? It's like believing in your own death. You can't do it.
The claim that some races were innately superior to others was later championed by Hitler, and so if Hitler was a nativist, then all nativists ...
The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened.""You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us," ...
Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and ...
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
No one deserves what I've been put through. I might have deserved your anger but I didn't deserve the entire school's anger. I did nothing ...
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to ...
Count Sylvius, "We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.""Not far from him, at any rate," Holmes answered witha polite smile.
When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She ...
For when it starts feeling like a prison in there - and it usually does for most people - you are confronted with the fact ...
When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at ...
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
It's being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when 'failure' changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
I made a living for 10 years making very typical TV commercials. But I always wanted to reach beyond that and do stuff that people ...
For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to do shows like ...
Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by ...
Object to that as well. The judge said,
With you, I want it all. If I get a taste of what it could be, I won't ever want to let it go. I ...
Did you remember my tennis-themed Halloween party this weekend?Yes. Not really, no. Where is it again?My house. Well, my dad's house. Should I feel bad ...
If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees,then you're fighting the wrong battle.
For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be ...
HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)
In a girl's life, it's the father who establishes the pattern.
Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's ...
The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever ...
The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of 'The Lives ...
Germs contagious, contagious alert!But Edwart and Purell are stronger than dirt!
One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)
Let me see: There's Miss Garnnett in Ireland, in June of 1770; Miss Nightjar in Swansea on April 3, 1901; Miss Avocet and Miss Bunting ...
The splendor of youth is, to a point, the splendor of error. Jealous the old, who have everything previewed! The nightingale will never come sing ...
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece ...
There's nothing you can do God's business is adoption, Child, And He has chosen you.
The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.
Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their ...
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the difference between us, the difference ...
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a ...
But you'll be killed!""I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice."Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did ...
Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you ...
But all I can feel right now is that someone turned on a light just long enough for me to see what I could never ...
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in ...
Sees the Sights, under Perplexing Difficulties. The native borned Gothamite mite have notissed, a short time since, a venerable lookin' ex-Statesman,
We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in ...
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one's thoughts
The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things ...
Whatever you find, you also find the fear that you may lose it. Whatever you fall in love with fills you with the sorrow of ...
The apothecary's name was Owlglass. He hummed to himself as he worked in his back room. He'd found a new type of blue fluff, which ...
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, ...
I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in ...
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.
My first song, 'Just Becuz,' was co-written by the awesome Baby Bash.
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the ...
If you love something let it go, if it comes back to you it's yours." She shakes her head. "You never came back.
No one loathed her more than she and thus none could truly harm her.
Figured that most of life's dilemmas could be solved by asking yourself this one question: Is it worth itto me?
It's not a bad Thing to fall in Love ...
Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box ...
When I see my future, I see you...
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
He found himself in the ironic position of being the indispensable man in a political world that regarded all leaders as disposable.
Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for ...
All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.
I never did that badly with women when I wasn't on telly, but it's a bit out of control now. Women try it on with ...
I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no ...
Do you not have tribes? Rivalries?""Of course," said Taref. "All of us do. I am the son of a Naib.""The third son of a Naib." ...
Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if ...
The traveller in the read-brown clothes that he wears that dust may not show upon him, the girl searching in her bed for the petals ...
You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.
I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my ...
It was a war, and in a war there are always casualties. Never winners, but always plenty of casualties."-- Nenya, The Water Warrior
On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about ...
If you're really hard up, I can introduce you to my grandmother. She's a fan." Adam blinked. "She doesn't typically sleep with pretty young things, ...
But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself ...
I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came ...
I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number ... I've been in it ...
Never let them see your fear ... it's rule number one. And it's not that I'm afraid. No, I'm not.I don't fear death.I've already died ...
If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?
Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they ...
This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop
I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I ...
That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, ...