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My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook ... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ...

If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as possessing ...

[ ... ]but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIMthat's bad

Omigawa is moving forward like a karate robot

In her sleep?" I couldn't believe it. "How did she say it? I mean, did she sound angry?"He frowned. "I don't know how she said ...

Just because you were inside me does not make us betrothed, you Neanderthal jerk.

The door to opportunity is marked push but the gateway to dreams is marked relentless prep fiend & OCD-heads only.

I am asked if I think the war was a just war ... how can I answer? I was a boy born and raised in ...

I'm pretty sure little hearts are popping out of my eyes right now. Here is this hot man, tattoos decorating his rugged arms, muscles tugging ...

Celestials is a soapy space opera. Perhaps a spacey soap opera.

My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

A release on September 16 quoted the claim of the assistant secretary for labor at OSHA that tests show 'it is safe for New Yorkers ...

My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad ...

Oh dear God, no, stop!"Fumblefoot gave her a reproachful look. Stop what?I have broken into an enchanted manor house and my pony has crapped on ...

He often paused before he spoke. She thought this exquisite; it was as though he had such regard for his listener that he wanted his ...

If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped ...

Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.

The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.

I'm impressed you left to keep everyone safe." He tenderly massaged the area above my hipbone with his right thumb."I've seen vampire men cry and ...

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what ...

It's the time when brides-to-be argue with their mothers about what colours and cuts will work for the many wedding functions. Young couples try to ...

I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I had ...

My choices were either too much alcohol or a whirl with my vibrator, and I was damned if I'd have a battery-provided orgasm starring Dark ...

You - you strange - you almost unearthly thing! - I love as my own flesh. You - poor and obscure, and small and plain ...

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers ...

You two are perfect together. And one day ... one day your children will change everything.

Our politics are overrun with characters acting at the behest of shadows.

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid ...

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, ...

At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But ...

Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort of time that ...

Memories of our childhood are like images painted on a wet canvas, they merge until they lose all shape, often remaing only as feelings.

Freedom is a universal value.

Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away.

I think the sophomore curse happens when you change every bit of yourself. Though my hair is blonde now, sonically it's still the same girl; ...

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

We are all capable of regulating how we think and feel. It just boils down to owning that power.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Ever'body says words different,' said Ivy. Arkansas folks says 'em different, and Oklahomy folks says 'em different. And we seen a lady from Massachusetts, an' ...

Because he's no better than a spoiled child. You were his toy, and even though he's got new toys, it doesn't mean he wants anyone ...

In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the "gun culture" if you will.

I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet!

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

What's the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you'll understand.

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever ...

Then one day you will be sitting and fear will arise, and you will feel it and recognize it and think, "Oh, this is fear, ...

Hey, neighbor," exclaimed the vision. It was Carey Osland in her working getup. I could see why she preferred loafers and housedresses. She looked marvelous, ...

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take ...

For he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it ...

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination

I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear ...

Ockham's disposable razors

Achievers are not scared to make mistakes or to fail because they are willing to learn from them. They are determined to start all over ...

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to ...

And though there's a grain of truth in every rumor, I've found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.

Circle me and the needle moves gracefullyBack and forth, if my heart was a compass you'd be NorthRisk it all cause I'll catch you if ...

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself ... that a tiger is an optical illusionwell, he will find out he is wrong. ...

It doesn't matter to me. I'm just worried. It's the first time I've see Teach like that. He said he had two regrets ... Once, ...

You've got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You're only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are ...

The traceur doesn't knock an obstacle out of the way unless it's absolutely necessary. He meanders his way past it. Over. Under. Through. Around. He ...

Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.

I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed ...

Everyone's memories and feelings are subjective, and we're teach trapped in our own perspectives. But the difference between perspectives, collectively, create objectivity.

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ...

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the ...

There's another part of the brain that seeps dopamine, specifically just before those peak emotional moments in a song: the caudate nucleus, which is involved ...

It seems quixotic today, with jet airplanes and overdoses of Nembutal, that a man would go through a war for something so insignificant as his ...

I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing."Helping you," said Dirnes."Why?"They put the soldier down, and ...

What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?

Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.

Every morning I wake up with an unknown, unexplainable joy of life. Then I get lost in the beauty of the morning sun and all ...

You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get ...

I know what the intimidation level of high school is. You're on a hamster wheel, running, running, running, trying so hard to fit in. It's ...

There is no such thing as a standard, run-of-the-mill, human being.

And so, October 13, 1977; 8:29 p.m. EST became the dawning moment of Year Zero to the rest of the universe.

This is a mindset that I have tried to instill in my security officials and military officers: don't just be overwhelmed by prognosis of threats, ...

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his ...

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record ...

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value ...

Nix," I said, and her name was a poem. She tilted her face up to the dawn; my lips met hers. She pressed close to ...

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on ...

Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the ...

The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you'll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices.

You know how they say revenge is best served up cold? I'd say it's best not served up at all. Revenge is a great motivator, ...

"Something on a line, it's discord and rhyme - whatever, whatever, la la la - Mouth is alive, all running inside, and I'm hungry like ...

If we are ever to meet once more shall we sing together and tell our tales? May all things good and wonderful be ever at ...

Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary life ...

You were apt to go from one extreme to the other, in a truly pious environment; which is why ministers' sons in that day were ...

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep ...

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating ...