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If the question is: what's more mortifying than professing your love to a boy and having him turn and walk away from you? The answer ...
In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand.
After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,Becomes dear but no one's - not even your own. ...
The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.""Awesome.""Maybe, but it's code's all it is.
And that first screening was overwhelming. You were there. People applauded when the title card comes in; there's a big "gasp moment" partway through the ...
Its selection and vetting process. The workers, for their part, can hope for a steady flow of jobs and prompt payment with minimal fuss. Handy's ...
I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.
Destiny' is the state of perfect mechanical causation in which everything is the consequence of everything else. If choice is an illusion, what's life? Consciousness ...
My normal stuff is Dr. Perricone's hypoallergenic range. I have incredibly sensitive skin, so I struggled to find anything because my skin would react to ...
I was at Pepperdine University in Malibu, and during my sophomore year, I played a dying burn victim on 'ER.' The makeup artist put burn ...
If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight ...
The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.
If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got ...
You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it ...
The willingness to abuse other bodies is the willingness to abuse one's own. To damage the earth is to damage your children. To despise the ...
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled ...
Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s.
Get the point?" I asked, offering the boys a triumphant smile.Gabriel, Zeb, and Dick stared at me, aghast. "What? Sarcastic postkill comeback. Isn't that what ...
The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.
Psht, as if. You and what army could possibly rescue her from my clutches? -JEN
You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or ...
My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than ...
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer ...
Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, ...
When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church ...
Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you ...
Speech is silver. Silence is golden.
Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.
She closes the door and I immediately fall to my knees, then onto my back. I stare straight up at the roof of her porch, ...
Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and ...
Peace is a new father Searching for a jobWith courage and vigorWith a smile and rigorBut with a great need for money.
I was a Packers fan growing up, and just to see the way he played the game and how excited he was about it all ...
There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and ...
Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're ...
Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all ...
Paradises are usually places where you get killed. The
A pirate's biggest treasure is not gold but the legend built throughout his or her lifetime journey.
When the bishop farted we were amused to hear about it. Should the ploughboy find treasure we must be told. But when the ploughboy farts ...
I suggest you all ask your mothers to make you some smiles and keep them in your pockets. If you ever find any one feeling ...
Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
If you threw your shoe to someone's head, you spread your own stench." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
I look to the skiesand expect artificial passenger pigeons,blackening the light,people taking potshots for kicksimagining one day they will be extinct.
For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.
I will never give up on what I love. I will never back down. I will never let go of anything that is important to ...
I think it's important to know how to free in case you fall of what you've written, you can be able to keep going with ...
A Michigander can be every bit as prickly as a New Yorker, just not out loud. The Midwesterner's credo: keep it to yourself.
Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that ...
Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police ...
If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.
Words are loaded pistols.
He was impugning my virtue. I ought to have been offended, but for some reason the idea tickled me. That could be my next career: ...
Coming home and staying there where God dwells, listening to the voice of truth and love, that was, indeed, the journey I most feared because ...
A friend of mine from New York asked me what I want to do, and I responded with, 'I want to make movies.' He responded ...
It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in ...
Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we ...
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)[Said on his deathbed]
What a world! Whether you're right or wrong, as long as you're strong, you're right.
Amelia tried to imagine it, lying undefended on the hard ground, at the mercy of every creature that crawled, crept, or flew. "I don't think ...
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. ...
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my ...
Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited ...
I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get ...
Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.
Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their ...
What was the rationale for all this pillaging? Souvenirs. These people needed something to remember themselves by. An odd thing, souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even ...
I was too tired to be pleasant today, even if it was just a matter of putting a smile on my face and saying hi.
Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, ...
I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later ...
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen ...
The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.
The blinking of eyes is an involuntary reflex action, provided they eyes are not watching your beauty.
If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my ...
To be loved out of sympathy is more devastating than to be rejected.-Shinobu
Not every praise deserves your full attention
I cough. "Oh, doctor. I think I'm sick I need some penis-cilin." I fake cough again into my hand. "Poor patient. What will I ever ...
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily ...
We must be the world we want to create.
And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but one ...
Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
Captain Future!" Ezra's faded eyes were agleam with hero worship. "The greatest feat of space pilotin' in history! No one else in the universe would ...
It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a ...
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, ...
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal ...
I'm going to tell you a secret. A secret I've never told anybody. I, Ignazio Vitale, have always been afraid of the dark. If you ...
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
He looked like an angel. And all I wanted to do was put my fist through his jaw. I couldn't stand my own cruelty.
Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the Living Heart of each of our parishes
Sometimes I come across as superficial. Of this I am aware. However, you may be confident that inside my head I am forever plumbing new ...
Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. ...
I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.
Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.
I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep ...
He who procrastinates will light the long fuse of dynamite.