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Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany

WESLEY AYERS is the stranger in the halls of the Coronado. He is the Keeper in the garden who shares my secret. He is the ...

The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid ...

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big ...

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and ...

I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice ...

Everybody likes to be known. Heck, its why people roll their car window down when their favorite song comes on. They're telling everybody, 'Hey, hear ...

Water is poured onto the road as a guest departs, both to make the journey "as smooth and fluid as water" and to ensure their ...

Other illnesses, from alcoholism to heart disease, mask depression when it causes them; if one takes that into consideration, depression may be the biggest killer ...

I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I ...

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

In a way, it was the beginning of something I'd long feared: that vampires would become part of the popular culture. That people would be ...

James reared up from his bed and threw himself into Uncle Jem's arms. He had heard some people found the Silent Brothers frightening, with their ...

People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ...

Comic-Con is overwhelming when you have such a long day of press schedules.

There is no need to overreact. I'm certain there are worse things that could happen to a young lady than to be denied a voucher ...

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the ...

It's ok to be not ok.

THE SKULL GLARED at me out of empty eye sockets.

I used to follow celebrities, and I remember I watched Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt shooting for 'Sadak'. I was standing on the road at ...

Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our ...

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than ...

She's my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose." "I love it when you talk dirty," ...

The closer he was the less confident I was.

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 ...

Terplash, & what difference make! One little white spark of light! Hair woven hands Penelope seaboat smeller Is Virgin you trying to fathom me Tiresome ...

The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.

Salt. Wound. Together at last.

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but ...

Love is the heartbeat of the sacred soul.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may ...

AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with ...

Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near ...

The person who values community will oft be deceived and destroyed by the knave whose heart lies in selfish ambitions. For

When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new ...

I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale ...

The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've ...

It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get ...

She noticed as if in a dream, a single diamond hair comb fall to the floor. The sparkling jewels landed face down in the mud.

He shook his head sadly. 'What a fool you are. You've wasted your ability searching for something that doesn't exist.''When will you realize you don't ...

You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to or you've been hurt enough that you have to.

What do you want me to call them? Shits and Giggles? Fists and Kneecap? Nah, I don't like that one. Hammer and Nails? Dude, these ...

Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I ...

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is ...

I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication.

America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of ...

You shine for who you are ... because no one can steal your light.

In ancient Jewish tradition, as far back as we can tell, the Song of Songs was not interpreted as a love poem or as an ...

Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength.

Yeah. Think I'll have to pass on the sex, though." "We don't have to have sex just because you're staying the night." "Oh! I thought ...

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.

Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person's life must ...

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also ...

Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was ...

I was once like you, enlightened and "rational",I too scoffed at lovers,Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery.No one is safe! Watch out.

I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking ...

I want to be silverly beautiful.

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, ...

An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorptionwith self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a ...

I'm Allen Walker!"My life....is over...I'm going to die....

As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a ...

I am the daughter of a tall, strong tree. My timber forms a ship, but it is anchorless, flagless. I set sail for the shade ...

Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver.""Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis ...

I enjoyed coming home to Crown Heights. There was a certain order to life there. You know, Shabbos, spending time with your family, eating and ...

These officials changed names they couldn't pronounce and tore people from their families, consigning to a return voyage old folks, people with bad eyes, riffraff ...

My eyes always keep searching,for something inexpressible,above the far away sky.I long to get lost,inside the evening-twilight.Silence always tickles me - in a strange way;I ...

I had a bad dream ... " Shion began softly. "I wanted someone to help me, and I reached out as far as I could ...

That woman is hiding something!" she said."You think everyone's hiding something.""And you would hug the devil if he gave you cookies.

Drive inexpensive cars, but own the best house you can afford.

It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting.No one ...

The agreement,' the colonel announced, 'says thirty-seven officers, fifty vehicles, and one hundred seventy five men.''What agreement?''The Berlin Agreement,

TV," I said, "do you believe in God?" "I believe," he said, "in Walt Disney." "You too!" We had clicked.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's ...

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ... and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

You're so unfair, Michiru ... To leave into your own world ... Don't leave me alone ... -Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus

Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril ...

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind.Eternity is too short to fulfill the promise of love my ...

Everyday the opportunity exists to change your life. But most days, the idea of having to change the big things in life just seems like ...

Your vision at a leadership level needs to be more global and selfless, it needs to go beyond you. Reflect and project your dream for ...

It is not enough to celebrate Christmas. We need to be changed and shaped by what we are celebrating. If our spiritual life is no ...

But here's the thing: other people's opinions are not the truth. We live in a world that puts us into boxes and labels them with ...

'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways ...

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

I have lost you, my brotherAnd your death has ended The spring seasonOf my happiness, our house is buried with youAnd buried the laughter that ...

Dolchyme: "It's ... just that ... we don't get many of your kind around here. Stormling folk and all that.Anadyr: "I'm a Storm Lord, actually."Dolchyme: ...

Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are ...

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 ...

I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

My eyelashes tickled the peephole. from Fogged Up Fairy Tale (Summer 2014)

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more ...

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.[Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down ...