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His expression was strangely peaceful, like the wind convinced him to let his spirit fly away and join the song of the storm. He

Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of ...

For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer ...

Because we bring so little is no reason to bring nothing.

D'Artagnan is right," said Athos. "Behold our three leaves of absence, which come from M. de Treville; and here are three hundred pistoles, which come ...

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed ...

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD AND RIDERS TO THE SEA, J. M. Synge. 80pp. 0-486-27562-0 THE

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were ...

Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall and ...

It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with people who are crazy, and the difference is: ...

Any believer who has not encountered the Cross is not yet a follower of Christ

I think that you are an uptight, pony-owning, trickle-down-economics-loving, Scotch-on-the-rocks-drinking, my-wife-better-take-my-last-name sexist jerk!

I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had ...

I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't know that I ...

She wears only black-rimmed glasses, and is holding a paperback titled Murder and Mayhem in Goose Pimple Junction. Her light

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera ...

Having read several prize-winning novels, Fancy was confident that she now knew the recipe: 1. Write a simple narrative. 2. Make a long list. 3. ...

While Terrorism is a war that starts developing within the mind,Religion is a war that antagonizes our conscience, butLove is alway a war within the ...

Taking a couple of deep breaths, he knew he had to choose his words carefully - in spite of the fact that his adrenal gland ...

The plot is deceptively simple. Condensed even fur- ther, it might read as a personal ad in some questfinder's forum: Unlikely hero to save world ...

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to ...

One day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst ...

But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mind. I see her in ...

Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

Everywhere else men are in movement, the world is in movement, and the past can only cause pain.

I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in ...

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

There is no more pressure on my rudder, he once remarked. Plain sailing, no drag on other people either. A bit of dancing now and ...

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who ...

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

Write beautifully what people don't want to hear.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

I don't get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no.

Every monopoly is unique, but they usually share some combination of the following characteristics: proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale, and branding.

Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?

Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.

Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action.

No gift bestowed upon us us so precious as children. They are proof that God still loves us. Theyare the hope of the future Ensign, ...

The key is not the will to win ... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.

Logic, order, truth, reason, we consign them all to the oblivion of death," said one Surrealist manifesto. We must "cultivate the hatred of intelligence," said ...

At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous service as they ...

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that ...

Peaky Blinders"?

If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of ...

Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby.

When you put God first in everything you do, your whole life will change forever.

The wholesale corruption of social relationships, even the most intimate, is an essential part of Shakespeare's chilling exposure of authoritarian politics.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to ...

Hey listen I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional ...

Despised as ineffective, they were ineffective because they were despised.

Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men ...

What is a woman's greatest virtue?Patience.

I am not always certain that it is I who am the better person, ma petite, but together we are the better person.

With respect to the situation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, in both countries the Soviet Union had been working hard to create an ...

When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking 'did I want to come back in?', I was delighted to accept. ...

I don't think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he ...

Petulia liked animals, especially pigs, because they had wobbly noses. Tiffany quite liked animals too, but no one except other animals liked animals as much ...

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He ...

Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

In fifteen minutes most of the camp was there, including the Texan who, Lord save his soul forever, had brought along a bottle of bonded ...

Love is about YOU and ME, not about THEM.

Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us ...

She is your treasure, she must have a husband;I must dance bare-foot on her wedding dayAnd for your love to her lead apes in hell.Talk ...

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to ...

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

Unlike Virgil, Homer is no part of the classical age, has no truck with judicious distinction or the calm management of life and society. He ...

Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick ...

Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.

I am purely evil;Hear the thrumof my evil engine;Evilly I come.The stars are thick as flowersIn the meadows of July;A fine night for murderWinging through ...

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

She could talk. If she was a sphinx she could have talked, if she was a stone she could have talked. I wondered when she'd ...

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.

There were many peddlers like her among the prisoners: women who were only trying to make a living by selling vegetables, which was against the ...

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people ...

Get up," James finally said, his tone indecipherable. "I don't need a patient dying from pneumonia on me tonight.

I want you to fuck me like you have a goddamn point to prove and you never, ever want me to forget it.

Pat Tillman (for abandoning an incredibly promising football career to give his life for his country).

For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back.

Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters ...

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

What was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.

I feel like the harder the work, the better off I'll be later in the season. If I don't work out, it's not so much ...

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started ...

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to ...

Never act in fear nor lose hope.

Poetrymakes nothing happen.It survivesin the valley of its saying.

For Galen," Easel said. "The Separatists want his research. Phara must have promised to deliver him into their custody.

Doing that ... pertecting her like that-it was very brave." He paused. "Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving ...