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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is ...

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

Finally, but perhaps above all, human nature is a factor in all this. Scientists have a natural tendency to interpret finds in the way that ...

Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

Death discredits. Survival is the whole success. The voice of the dead goes away. There isn't any memory. The power that's established fills the earth ...

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are ...

Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.

Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades ...

I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by ...

Beauty is common but what's rare is a great energy and outlook on life.

That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.

It's just that the last thing Adam ever said to me.......I remember it all so clear....'Can you go with me, Jordy? I'm not so scared ...

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

Sometimes your heart is fullest when you know it's breaking. Sometimes, the sky has to darken so the stars can shine brightest. Sometimes your soul ...

But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.

Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and ...

If you give money to poor guy he knows how to spend them, so if you have money which are redundant give them too a ...

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Everyone starts out with a clean slate to soil.' (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 280)

He wanted to be in the world and take what came with it, endings local and universal, full stops, periods, looks of injured disappointment and ...

To lead is neither to push or pull.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go ...

Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety ...

Coincidences happen, but only once

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

Wine is a civilizing agent.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are ...

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.

One of the things people did best at the office was to use flexibility to its last atom.

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

People dreaming ,economists steals their dreams and politicians kills it

After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the ...

The tarantula scrambles faster, certain that he will make it across. Certain of his extraordinary speed. Crunch.

I wear the midi because I feel if you're going to look ugly, you may as well look this year's ugly.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

Even stranger, though, was how, at this very moment, this car with its echoes of death and decisions and life courses forever altered was the ...

You have to make sure that you find projects that are not too similar and roles that are not too similar, so the challenges are ...

Living life as only half humans until one day we meet a woman who completes us, who gives meaning to our pathetic existence and makes ...

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to ...

They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon professional strong men, and scarcely looked normal at ...

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy

Mom has a super busy day planned maybe pick another day, Sundays are great as they can be a little more chilled

Well, well," answered a cool, amused voice from somewhere above us. "And here you are again. Ethan Chase, your family does have a knack for ...

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

What in bloody hell is going on back there?" Angus boomed. "Some kind of cross-species orgy!

I like the debate, but I don't really like the fight. I don't like being in the ring. I'm not competitive.

I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I'm not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I'd rather write something that helps ...

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what ...

Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion ...

I would love to work with Morgan Freeman. I love him.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

Other than the love of God; the greatest love is self love. You have to love yourself more than you love someone else in order ...

I can tell you that she changed my life, and I think, somehow, I changed hers. We're good for each other, Never and me. Just ...

The assassin stepped in then, his left hand moving in a high swing that buried its blade in the councilman's neck.

Men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

I did not do it for you, sire." Gawain was deadly serious now. "Death comes to us and all mortals. I shall still lose you ...

No, amusing me only, I wonder if they realize how they are used?""Not a bit. They think they are the emperors of creation.""Poor lambs.""That's not ...

Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits.

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable ...

There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale so soon as pleasure.

When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower ... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!'

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do ...

Life will be your treasure box, filled with the sparkle of laughter, the gleam of adventure, the shine of discovery, the flash of magic. And ...

Eventually, you forget people. People forget you. That's the way it goes.

Joe Lelyveld told me just now that Gandhi and MussoliniActually met. What an extraordinary thought.

If happy ever after did exist I would still be holding u like this

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt ...

Someday we'll meet in Lvov, my love and I.

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people ...

The age of exploration is long over, amira. Now it's the age of globalization. And once everyone agrees something is one way, all the other ...

Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. ...

Take your hallowed halls of Congress or the littered floor of the Stock Exchange, America is built on its pancake houses!

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very ...

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.

My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right ...

But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?""Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to ...

When you fall in love, you land on a cloud.

You are so adorable. You can never be bad. Everyone has a hysterical part in himself, and I may be that part you. I'm just ...