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His poor-man's Ionesconian exchanges with Jude suddenly dissolved when he needed Jude to do his calculus homework, at which point Ionesco abruptly transformed into Mussolini,

2a.m and a ceiling stained with question marks.

You saved me because you could not bear the thought of leaving me behind." He touched my face, very gently. "Not from a sense of ...

The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth but the intuition of those who stand mi-way ...

...should the Dreamers reap what they had sown, we would reap it right with them.

You must be very proud; the whole city crowded with your lovers.

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 ...

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

My imagination is the most powerful muscle I possess.

For if not true, they are well imagined...

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for ...

When question ariseHelp or not to helpAlways help.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send ...

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You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Critics should stick to their convictions.

I see so many people. They just seem to be hopeless. Being a Christian and being a pastor, the ultimate hope is in Jesus.

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

Well, I'm sorry my telling the truth about the stupid things you do is inconvenient for you,

Some guy came up to me with his kids, ages probably 10 and 12, and said that the reason he likes me is because he ...

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came ...

Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with ...

For us to change history, we first need to change the future.

Until you know who you are you can't write.

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written ...

I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something ...

From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on ...

There is only one real knowledge: that which helps us to be free. Every other type of knowledge is mere amusement. - VISHNU PURANA,

Every time you encounter something that forces you to "handle it," your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no ...

Because you didn't know you had a choice." "What choice?" "To be angry or not." It was the silliest thing I'd ever heard. "That's not ...

Shadows show the direction in which the light lies, but you have to travel to make it to where it is.

I love houses, all the things they tell me, so that's one reason. I don't mind working as a cleaning woman. It's just like reading ...

Pay It Forward: A random act of kindness towards another person with no expectation of return on investment. (my own definition)

Now I understand the depth of the sadness." William turned and looked at her. "In the painting? Adele's eyes look as though they go deeper ...

Johannes Kepler published his book Harmonices Mundi in 1619. In it he proposed that it was the Creator who "decorated" the whole world, using mathematical ...

Take your time, think a lot,Why, think of everything you've got.For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.From the moment I ...

Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect ...

I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled ...

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

...There was a menagerie in which hideous clowns, dressed in rags and come from who knows where, were in 1823 exhibiting to the peasants of ...

I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played ...

I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.

Be thou as the immortal are, Who dwell beneath their God's own wing A spirit of light, a living star, A holy and a searchless ...

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of ...

You saw a lot of guys, especially in the early '90s, whose acts were a pitch for a sitcom. A lot of them were very ...

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow in Forks, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly ...

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.

If the coach thinks the client needs the coach's help and "heroically" swoops in to save the day, the coach will prevent the client from ...

The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of ...

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction ...

A young Buddhist frog took a leap,into some traffic, "Beep, Beep!"He sprang from his feet,jumping into the street,and soon became one with a jeep.-The Ginger ...

For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think ...

My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty

I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.

If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a ...

So, if the zombies are coming to town, why exactly are we coming back here?""Don't call them that.""But they are - ""No, they're not. They're ...

A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to have money.

It's supposed to hurt - that's how you know it meant something!

The more you depend on the will and Cosmic Energy to sustain yourself, the less your food requirements; the more you depend on food, the ...

The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So ...

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

The Mollusks - generous hosts when they weren't trying to kill you.

If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it's not their fault, it's our fault because we ...

Maybe I just have everything backwards. Maybe it's a problem of perspective. In this Post-Modern Age perhaps it is the digital experiences we ought to ...

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and ...

The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our ...

Let's see.' She fiddles with her terminal and the room card reader. 'You're in 403 and 404. Have a nice day.'I hand Persephone the Forbidden ...

I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

It's hard being in the body of someone you don't like, because you still have to respect it.

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

Sometimes, a war saves people.

I nearly bit one of them, and yadda yadda yadda, we learned they had nothing to do with the color change." "You can't yadda yadda ...

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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 ...

At some time, every Negro in the armed services asks himself what he is getting for the supreme sacrifice he is called upon to make. ...

Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest ...

I completely think of myself as sexual. Completely and utterly. Probably more so than I did when I was 30. I don't know why. I'm ...

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, ...

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to ...

Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all.

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one ...

There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans ...

How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, ...

Imbalanced systems,whether internal or external, will tend to polarize.

Live your life with the will, to understand life.

Only reading can leave one satisfied at having lived a thousand lives!

I didn't mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.