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To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day ... . I think it must be how ...

Not many people know this, but when Yes first started doing club dates back in 1968, '69, we did a few tracks from 'The Magic ...

I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.

In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found ...

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the ...

No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.

For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with ...

Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what." ~'Dr. Michael C. Anders,

If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 ...

Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly ...

The math shows that you should always keep playing. But if you follow this strategy, you will eventually lose everything. Some problems are better avoided ...

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the ...

21st century is the century of knowledge and the world has always looked at India whenever knowledge finds prominence. Emergence of knowledge society is no ...

'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be ...

It takes 21 days to develop a habit.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only ...

The asteroid was longer on the inside than it was on the outside. The seventh chamber went on forever.

The recent novel by his wife Rebecca Goldstein, entitled 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, subtitled A Work of Fiction). The

I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!

I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to ...

One of the library occupants was Lawrence Beesley, a Dulwich College science master seeking new chances in America (his small son grew up to marry ...

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

So... they banned me!

Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon ...

DAY 10 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: The heart of worship is surrender. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Surrender your whole being to him to ...

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after ...

When a musician . . . does not have the ability to bend the souls of listeners to where he wishes, his skill and knowledge ...

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday ... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to ...

And there it was, so fleeting I almost missed it.Christian Kane's real, unguarded smile.

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. (2.2.17-19)

Several died the day the bomb was dropped. Some lived six months after the explosion but died anyway. They were all lost. It was so ...

One of you, two of them. Love's a bitch.

2AM where do i begin,Crying off my face again,The silent sound of lonliness,Wants to follow me to bed

[I don't get it. You guys look down on chimps for flinging their own poo but you think it's fine to fling other kinds of ...

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his ...

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese ...

Don't worry, even if you fall over! It's all right. You can just pick yourself up again!When you fall over, make the most of the ...

Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read ...

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out ...

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting ...

I watched '12 Angry Men' when I was a kid. It blew me away definitely.

Girls interested in modeling need to realize that its hard work. You can go to a shoot in the morning and not even start shooting ...

My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had ...

You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? ...

Sorry to take your award, Faith ... Everybody knows that it's really not about the numbers and the chart positions and the sales and all ...

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion ...

Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you'll be in ...

My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for ...

'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart.

You're just pissed you liked it

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. p.276

For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person ... So I try to do it while ...

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really ...

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm ...

He raised an eyebrow. "I have to get closer? I don't remember damsels being so stubborn about leaping into a knight's arms.

Success depends on our choice of deployment (in terms of both quantity and/ or Quality) of the 86400 spells (Hindi- Pal) available each day for ...

His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning ...

I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.

2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.

This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it.

Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices,but because of the silence that is in it.

Water boils at 212 degrees. At 211 degrees it's just hot. Every degree is needed.

Modern Furniture for Modern Homes

We in the 25th hour,It's now or never.We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever.In the end, time waits for no man ... What's your ...

How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic. p 108

My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is ...

As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about ...

Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for ...

Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with ...

People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus off of Veep ...

If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would ...

Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack.

I never have felt that people should feel that they are better than others, simply because they just happen to possess a larger share of ...

It feels like last week, but in fact we're now closing in on five thousand days at war. I always picture Sami as a nine-year-old ...

People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of ...

I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and ...

You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, ...

What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. ...

2. Stay lean and flexible

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work ...

You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are ...

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th ...

...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

Letter writing is a habit that allows us to explore new trails all our lives. Each day is a fresh new adventure when we regularly ...

Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on ...

I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, ...

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj ...

Stephen Covey's The 8th Habit

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in ...

Buddhist Barbie" In the 5th century B.C.an Indian philosopherGautama teaches "All is emptiness" and "There is no self." In the 20th century A.D.Barbie agrees, but ...

There's 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy ...