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Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
The one-cylinder ward is one in which the bishop handles all the problems, makes all the decisions, follows through on all the assignments, and faces ...
Pierrot knew that everything in the world was alive. Everything was composed of molecules that shook and vibrated and hummed. There was no such thing ...
If we want to write, it makes sense to read - and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would ...
I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly ...
If American chemical industries are oligopolistic, British, German, French, Italian, indeed European, chemical industries are monopolistic.
God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and ...
I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in this worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right ...
Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved ...
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.[Lat., Sed profecto ...
I planned to reintroduce him to my friends lorazepam and oxycodone in a big, big way.
Associational logic," a muscle rarely worked by prose: its "occlusion, or difficulty," she wrote, "healing me, forcing me to privilege my heart, my intuition.
It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" ...
Joshua needed to eat something before embarking upon it, and hence stood in line behind an overtattooed prick who couldn't decide between banana and pumpkin ...
However, your life is nothing more than the outpicturing of your deepest imagination.
Moving forward is the only way to survive.
Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created in ...
The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in ...
The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 ...
The ease with which we can connect the psychological world with the outer, visual and sensory one seeds our language with metaphors.
He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.
Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.
Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative ...
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
[C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power.
In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's ...
Most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day - if not the week ...
As frustrating as it gets, at times, and as frustrating as it is, at times, I don't think I've ever considered doing something else, or ...
When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.
A life that was surprisingly full, even though it was simple. Or maybe because it was simple.
I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, ...
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred with a million cigarette ...
Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, ...
I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I ...
We have eyes to see beauty and a heart to love and appreciate it.
O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and ...
Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a time ...
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and ...
The bumblebee was so vibrant, so alive, and so beautiful, its presence renewed Eragon's will to survive. A world that contained a creature as amazing ...
She doesn't even know how to kill things properlike? What kind of girl have you given me to, goddess?" Vic protested, fixing his eye on ...
Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others ...
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day
It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean.
Everyone is from Russia. Sometimes I think I'm from Russia, too. All these new Ovas. I don't know anyone. I don't really recognise anyone. That's ...
The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.
Our old barn taught me one of the most important lessons I was ever to learn: that the extraordinary can live in the simplest things" ...
That's what PGA Tour golf is all about. It's a partnership with the community to help people to raise money for charity and to do ...
Welcome to Dauntless! Where you either face your fears and try not to die in the process or you leave a coward
Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!
My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing.
You're not going to throw this away, are you?" she says, and she'll be talking about the grains of rice in the bottom of the ...
I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.
The dictionary is a perfect example of overalphabetization, with its harsh rules and every little word neatly in place. It almost makes me want to ...
I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.
Oggi uccidiamo, domani moriremo, he said, his gloved hand making the sign of the cross. Today we kill, tomorrow we die.
Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at ...
I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs. I'd ...
You've got my come drying between your thighs right fucking now. And bruises in the shape of my fingers on your body. You. Are. Mine. ...
37. On this point, and the whole paragraph, see especially Oliver O'Donovan, The Ways of Judgment (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005).
The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, ...
To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word ...
Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the ...
From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your ...
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know ... How, then, can ...
Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music ... I like a lot of different things.
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand ...
The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south ...
She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to ...
As obident as dogs and as stupid as water buffalo.
If you're always scared of dying," Obispo had said, "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either.
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.
The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical ...
Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the ...
We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to ...
It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to ...
I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about ...
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard ...
Not more free is the eagle which mounts to his rocky eyrie, and afterwards outsoars the clouds, than the soul which Christ hath delivered.
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated ...
Love ... who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.
In war the olive branch of peace is of use.[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]
This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint ...
The Package is the Product, onomatopoeticized
For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being ...
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe ... I annoyingly ...
[My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked his pipe, which ...
I pretended I was a Kez colonel pretending to be an Adran colonel," Olem said. "It was disturbingly easy.""They didn't ask for papers or proof?""In ...
I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I ...
She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not ...