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When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host of golden daffodils.
I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks ...
I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came ...
She thinks, I want an orange soda. And I want vodka to mix into the orange soda. And while we're at it, I'd also like ...
Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which ...
In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather ...
Leave the past behind you so the future can find you
The creation myths of the various peoples and religions of the world pale when compared to the glory of the big bang.
Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the ...
Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, 'Let's run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.' Back
Every new day holds new opportunities to take new actions to fulfill your dreams.
In the end, your creativity perhaps even your outrageousness will determine the final result. ...
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named ...
Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, ...
People can be quite cynical. 'The Kills are too cool.' There's been an on-and-off relationship with the music press that loves us and then hates ...
The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.
What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
I open my eyes and blow a straggle of hair out of my face. Not my hair, smitty's. his head is buried in the crook ...
Voiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, ...
One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.
Years ago there was an old man I knew that told me he didn't trust me, because people with beards were hiding from something. I ...
The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us.
My mind was no longer functioning on a rational level. For fuck's sake, who needed rational when they boarded a train to insanity? All that ...
The outcaste is a bye-product of the caste system. There will be outcastes as long as there are castes. Nothing can emancipate the outcaste except ...
Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.
The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's ...
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, ...
One day I was driving down the farm track in the pickup,with two of the little boys, aged about four or five, sitting beside me. ...
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer ... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our ...
Now, the magic of British parks at night, as Bill Oddie presents.. Gaywatch.
Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith ...
I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the ...
Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.
Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as ...
There will be a "Oops 100." They'll be plenty more oopses. I'm not perfect. I'm human.
Perhaps we were atheists by default, but the matter of God did not come into the equation of our love.
I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. ...
Keep looking at me like that," he warned, leaning casually into the counter and sipping his coffee. "see what happens.""i'm going to lose my job ...
Behold not Death's Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook'st them.
We will not apologize for oour way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims ...
As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, ...
I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes ...
You were born as an origional don't die as a copy
I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the ...
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 ...
I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.
These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.
It's kind of hard to outlive your past
The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active ...
I thought: please don't growfamiliar. I think I said it out loud:Please don't let me love youthat horrible way.
Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.
My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.
Zach," I said as I lay there "Where did you go? When you were looking for me?"I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes."Crazy." ...
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty ...
I've been to Cardiff a few times but I'd love to get to Wembley. My son is six or seven years old and I'd love ...
The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing ...
When all is said and done, I personally think that success is when you're consistently improving and outdoing yourself.
Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.
Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.
Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on ...
I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what ...
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a ...
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, ...
Don't let any of 'em in the room 'til my guy gets what he needs. We'll be outta here before they get their gloves on.Tea ...
I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to ...
We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was ...
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 ...
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your ...
Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, ...
With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. ...
Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied ...
We all knew where the goop originated and could have defended ourselves, but the origin of the fusillade doubled as the center of the action. ...
Listen,' she whispered and pointed towards the window. 'Whenever the wind blows from the east and the wind chimes dance in the moonlight, there is ...
My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.
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, ...
I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.
I'm a one-hundred-percent, made-in-Florida, dope-smugglin', time-sharin', spring-breakin', log-flumin', double-occupancy discount vacation. I'm a tall glass of orange juice and a day without sunshine. I'm the ...
Oh, things are wretched, miserable!' said Oblonsky, and sighed heavily.
Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - ...
[There's] something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every day by their ...
The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, ...
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of ...
I'd forced books on my kids from the day they were born and, as it turned out, it had been completely unnecessary because all of ...
Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.
Your ma was a leech with bad teeth," she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. "Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with ...
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One ...
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having ...
I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.
Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.
The large and rising offshore wealth translates to substantial losses in fiscal revenue. By my estimate, the fraud perpetuated through unreported foreign accounts each year ...
It was almost like being a child again because you felt like you were in your bedroom and it almost felt like no one was ...
Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.
Bucks, doe - thank God everything boils down to money, I always say.""During mating season the doe constructs a bed for herself, and then she ...