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Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.
Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
Oh well, whatever, nevermind.
I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.
The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come ...
Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal ...
It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm ...
Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy ...
Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.
I wrapped my arms around his neck, drawing him closer. Oh God, it was so out of control, but in this really sweet, beautiful way. ...
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide ...
The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and ...
What decent philosopher was ever an appeaser? The former is a rare catch among the multitudes of modern opinionists. His role is to be one ...
Faith does not answer to wishes but to working
Even if I have only 15 minutes, I knock out some toning moves or get in a burst of cardio.
[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of ...
I don't take art as seriously as politics.
When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault.
I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you ...
Ask and it shall be given, if it is not given, then you can knock, and if it is not openned again, then you can ...
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a ...
Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not ...
The past had power. The past was a riptide. That's why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn't go in the water.
Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.
There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.
The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.
I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let ...
But people need to cling to something," Oshima says. "They have to. You're doing the same, even though you don't realize it. It's like Goethe ...
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and ...
From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the ...
If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.
Oh, hell," Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. "I really blew it, didn't I?""Don't be silly," Berry scolded. "It's just your first lovers' spat. ...
I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to ...
The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!
Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the ...
English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off ... Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our ...
FYI, when I type WTF, you are supposed to read What the Fuck? Same with OMG, and OMFG, which are Oh My God and Oh ...
As early as 1975 she had come up with a wonderful line about the Labour Party: They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run ...
The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections ...
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
Olgun! Wake up!"Her mind was filled with a sense of self-righteous andvaguely drowsy protest."Sure you weren't, she needled at him. You were justpracticing snoring, so ...
We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample ...
I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been ...
I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were ...
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 ...
So ... this is the dark dungeon where the very angry Tristan sleeps?""No. This is the dark dungeon where the very dangerous Tristan keeps himself ...
From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of singing with emotion- ...
To put it in terms of information theory, the new technology overwrites the old one. The technology saved under a new file name survives as ...
When all things repose, do you alone Awake to hear the sweet harps play To Love before him on his way, And the night wind ...
Letting you go, Karou, will be like oenin the window for a butterfly. One does not hope for the butterfly's return.""I'm not a freaking butterfly.
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of ...
Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic - a totally streamlined organization ...
What's the point? To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for a narrow-minded or embittered man.
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of ...
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
Oulipo ends where the work begins.
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all ...
It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.
If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
People do give me a hard time about my hair because it's orange and it's big.
If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for ...
Close examination of the evidence shows that the poor were being included in private education, and only those who did not want to go to ...
You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded ...
I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me ...
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. ...
Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.
Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of ...
What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must ...
We are as tired of each other's company as we are of the cold monotony of the black night and of the unpalatable sameness of ...
Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to ...
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and ...
Unfortunately, loving someone doesn't obligate them to love you back
My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle.
[W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear.
PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in ...
The two old friends stood silently in the fading light, though you wouldn't have known it to look at them. That they were old friends, ...
Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers.
(Obin: "it," not "he" or "she." Because they're hermaphrodites. That means male and female sex organs. Go ahead and have your giggle. I'll wait. Okay, ...
The news that comes out of Pakistan is always geared toward terrorism and fundamentalism. But when you give people freedom of expression and the freedom ...
The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and ...
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so ...
Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, ...
Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you ...
Barry Goldwater once said, 'I'd rather be right than president.' I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.
This kind of mixing of ingredients happens all the time at fast-food places ... You know when you order french fries and there's a rogue ...
The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the ...
One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the ...
If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never ...
I tell foreign companies that come here ... 'Don't see Turkey as a country of 770,000 sq km and $800bn gross domestic product. This country ...
The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that ...
Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
This is the age of oddities let loose.
Everybody's got a sack of rocks.
Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them.
Has become their one diversion, their one pleasure - their religion.
Any kind of advice that I've been given to cut out carbs forever, don't do it. It just doesn't work. You do okay for a ...
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
An overemphasis upon imminence in preaching has banished transcendence and tended to a theology of God being technically present as an observer but effectively absent ...