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He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat

They were inculcated with a firm sense of noblesse oblige, as with a respect for hierarchy; the Slonim girls knew well how to decode a ...

Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably ...

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way ...

Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, ...

Man-made fabrics? What provenance do they have? A squirt of gloop into a petri dish? Strands of plastic spun in sterile laboratories? They are but ...

I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take ...

With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me ...

Life goes on but the scars remain.

In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who ...

Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.

We see that reason is wholly instrumental. It cannot tell us where to go; at best it can tell us how to get there. It ...

The Nutri-Matic was designed and manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation whose complaints department now covers all the major landmasses of the first three planets ...

My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad ...

I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start my career in ...

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies ...

Can't you ever stop joking?""No, why should I? Laughter is one of the two things that make life worthwhile. Aren't you going to ask what ...

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd ...

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother ...

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

Sadness and anger aren't vampiric. If you let them, they'll follow you around the world, sunshine and stakes be damned.

Now is not about gathering courage, it's about staying one step ahead of my fear.

I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us ...

A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.

New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and ...

Everyone says it's going to be Snapcase at the palace. He listens to the people.""Yeah, right," said Vimes. And I listen to the thunder. But ...

Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Sometimes ...

My first Hindi film as a leading man was Mahesh Bhatt's 'Saaransh,' which immediately established me as someone who knows the craft.

Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

You're not gay, are you?"Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.

A nathion is as strong as the hearts of its women. It's warriors may be brave and many, but when the blood of it's women ...

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more ...

And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if ...

It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go

Too late," Whitestorm breathed. "I go to hunt with StarClan." "You can't - the Clan needs you! I need you!

Up! Children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! and destroy them all!

Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle Mike for more stinkum.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

I know why girls go and have their nails done so often and have spa days. It feels awesome.

On the day the Gjallerhorn is blown, it will wake the gods, no matter where they are, no matter how deeply they sleep.Heimdall will blow ...

You keep me going when i feel like a flat tyreyou do my head right, like a hair dryercan i call you my machanic since ...

I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be ...

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it ...

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not ...

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, ...

The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new ...

I have lost tolerance for things without meaning. There is no time for them. Does that make sense? - Sara Seager

I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the ...

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past ...

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that ...

Composition is selective improvisation.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

In any form without the express written permission of Amy

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos ... To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions ...

Feet shuffled closer then halted when Reeve said, Touch her, I'll break your neck.

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British ...

In the end, Scipio and Salvadore were condemned to a gruesome death. They were to be hanged, decapitated, and quartered. As a deterrent to potential ...

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth ...

Let your dreams fly in the sky of imagination.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy ...

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even ...

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in ...

Democrats thinks and gets things wrong. Republicans don't do anything and blames everything on democrats

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and ...

Steamships insult the dignity of distance,

Los Angeles has been my home since the days even before Motley Crue, so I am beyond excited that 'The Side Show' has found a ...

That's how kings are made, my brush-tailed girl - they pick a place, shove a stick in it, call themselves King and wait to see ...

As I gave my hand to one and then another of the Winter Knights, hoping to forget Kian's kiss in the arms of the other ...

I've read many, many books involving heartache. Not one has ever described it as little. Soul-shattering and world-destroying yes. Little, no" -Madeline

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will ...

Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

Apart from The Holiday, I haven't really spent a huge amount of time in LA. Not that I avoid it, it's just that I don't ...

People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm ...

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Baby, I'm so sorry. You know I wouldn't feel right, if I ran away from my responsibilities. I'd have to live with that decision for ...

The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, ...

That I happened to fall into a career that no other girls wanted isn't surprising to me. I wanted something that didn't exist, so I ...

Every thing looks the way you believe.

In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice ...

I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that ...

From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story.

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good ...

The Esbat differed from the Sabbat by being primarily for business...very often the Esbat was for sheer enjoyment only.

If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being ...

I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all Salvadoreans, even those ...

Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club. 'Most of war ...

Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, ...

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.

Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

If I have to hear one more story about what great fun it was working with you 'back in the city,' which I assume he ...

LISTEN CLOSELY, MY FRIENDS," Blaine's voice boomed. "THERE ARE LARGE STOCKPILES OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE CANISTERS UNDER THE CITY. I HAVE STARTED A SEQUENCE ...

Do you ever stop talking?" I say. "Seriously, it's like you have a superarticulate form of Tourette syndrome.

No, Joy, you just think gin makes you brilliant. Gin makes you sotted. Chocolate makes you brilliant.