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The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it ...

It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.

I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.

The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a ...

Maybe, thinking about it now, we were trying to figure out how to make love in such a way as to make time not matter ...

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was ...

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

After all, in private, we're all misfits

If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.

I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the ...

Goodness knows she is too fierce for youGoodness knows she has eyes for a lordGoodness knows she yet will prove untrueHer cheek's blush is as ...

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems ...

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

As in all other places of resort, one type predominated: people in the prime of youth, with every show of intelligence and sensibility in their ...

Many people still feel so scared about spirit or ghost, not yet realizing that there are so many unidentified living creatures on this planet earth ...

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

Night fishing accentuates the atmosphere of a lake. It is as if, once darkness falls, the character of the pool announces, "I am here.

It's not possible to stop love.

A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a ...

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a ...

Then I noticed his rising blush, and I realized something.Tobin and Angie ... their togetherness was new. New enough that being touched by her still ...

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner. He threw the rest of her sandwich ...

Queen Rhiannon of the House of Gwalchmai fab Gwyar.First Born Daughter of Queen Addiena. First Born White ... ""So," she cut him off before the ...

I've never seen myself as sexy. I see myself as a goofball.

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in ...

Before YouTube, I used to show videos at film festivals, and that was good and constructive. Watching things with an audience is a great way ...

She is the harbinger of nightmares as well as death, destruction, and insanity. Said to reign in an alternate dimension, a bleak and desertlike twilight ...

Her head appears to be on fire but that is only a trick of the light. It was June 13, eighty-three degrees out, under sunny ...

If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.

Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

I spent time on set in New York and Berlin sitting next to Steven Spielberg while he worked, which was the biggest thrill of my ...

I'm going to go with ZZ Top they're my faves ... because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old ...

I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

Shall we go away whenever life looks like turning in the slightest uncanny, or not quite normal, or even rather painful and mortifying? No, surely ...

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't ...

It's not proper for seventeen-year-old princesses to be alone with young men who have questionable intentions."She laughed. "And what about young men who she's been ...

Swanstein seriously had tears coming down his face! I watched in amazement. Seeing girls cry makes me very uncomfortable, but a fellow male in tears, ...

Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Well, this whole question of how you work out the narrative is very mysterious. It's a good deal more arbitrary than most people who don't ...

The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them a ...

It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands...the only applause we're meant to seek is that of nail-scarred hands.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Elise didn't listen the corpse as James emptied his stomach a few feet away.

Game is bipolar. One day he's this way, the next day he's the next.

Small unexpected acts of kindness are the building blocks of greatness. Start your day with a smile and see where it takes you ...

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels ...

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is ...

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Change happens whether you want it to or not. And sometimes, like now, it's for the best.

Hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was ...

If it isn't going to matter to you in 5 years, quit stressing about it. (Also, quit b*tching about it. It might matter when you're ...

Magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

Sunshine warms us, as do smiles - which makes me think that smiles are sunbeams reflected off our teeth.

He turned to me. "Call me later?""Yes.""Promise?""I promise," I said.And then he leaned down and kissed me. And this time it wasn't Romeo kissing Juliet. ...

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

Even then, when the hike was perfect, I would wonder, 'Now what?' And take a picture. Take another picture. Like a man with a photogenic ...

Do you mind?" I looked at him from my upside-down position. The rope tight around my ankle, hands fought a losing battle with gravity over ...

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer ...

I'd rather have a go at life, so there's something to talk about once we're gone.

Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about ...

And the council doesn't recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy ...

In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today's dynamic, lean economy, it's more about asking the right questions. A ...

If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And ...

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, ...

When you think of quitting, remember why you started!

Do you think, Madame, that in heaven we will really get to see God face-to-face?" "We might." "What if you're blind?" "I'd expect that if ...

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

The last ship home has sailed. From now on, launch vehicles will rise up into orbit, but they will not go back for ten thousand ...

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations ...

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn't destroyed them.

Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue.

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's ...

She has a wash and wear bridal gown.

I was appalled that so meaningless a person would dare such effrontery.

Can I say hello?Why?I don't want you to be alone!

To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Money brings courage with it but lock contentment behind.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

The quality of the soil determines the outcome of the seed.

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as to limit civilian ...

Uribe and I have very good relations. I owe him loyalty, I admire him, he did great things for our country, and I think that ...

Even if you were taken out of school for want of money, Hugh. It's no excuse for false values. The world is full of poor ...

What type of wrong thing, did I do?...What wrong did I said... and why I am so unlucky with the questionable "Relationships"?

Children are different mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.