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I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing ...

Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 ...

I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.

Care for her. He was unworthy of such a gift. Unworthy of her blind trust and her sparkling, slightly crooked smiles, let alone her heart. ...

What distinguishes modernity from the age of Christendom is not that the former is more devoted to rationality than was the latter but that its ...

And when you give up your dreams, an important part of who you are dies with them, and so does that which makes you unique.

Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.

Sabrina fairListen where thou art sittingUnder the glassie, cool, translucent wave,In twisted braids of Lillies knittingThe loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,Listen for dear honour's ...

Allow me to start from the beginning - with my death. ...

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Your friend Lila is calling from her car phone,' Ned said, half amused and half annoyed. 'Apparently something earth-shattering has come up, and unless she ...

The awkward moment in which I discover that both my wife and my sister have made out with the same guy.

I didn't exactly relish the idea of getting a tattoo, trust me. It was right up there with blue hair.

I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom ...

I feel you slipping away from me, and I don't know how to stop it.

Perfection should never be your goal. Rather, let your goal be to make a difference, yet learning every step of the way.

People waste far too much of their lives being miserable. If you love someone, if you truly love them - tell them, show them. Never ...

When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the crowd: it is ...

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really ...

DID JESUS EVER CLAIM TO BE GOD?

The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain ...

Present fear is never as bad as later regret.

Abby: In another life, I could love you. Travis: I might love you you in this one.

Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica.To be intelligent, one must start young.

The greatest law of Sahaja Yoga is that it is a collective happening.

And I'm always surprised when people have seen 'The Foot Fist Way', so when people bring that up, I'm always surprised that's reached other people ...

Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that's a very rare feeling, so I could ...

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.Or insanity.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to ...

And the first step in bulldozing these obstacles is to enumerate them. As Peters puts it, What you decide not to do is probably more ...

The things you used to own, now they own you.

But it was very stupid of me not to see that of course the friend of Juliana must be this Mary Challoner. It was stupid ...

He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he ...

There's a reason narcissists don't learn from mistakes and that's because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one. ...

We'll tell the nurses she's a new student with an interest in nursing. They'll be charmed.'Tess flips her braids over her should. 'I am particularly ...

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from ...

This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.

Some physiologists will have it that the stomach is a mill; others, that it is a fermenting vat; others, again that it is a stew-pan; ...

Working hard is a skill you have to nurture!

But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at ...

I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very ...

The ability to take data - to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate ...

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?

When all is said and done, we regret only the chances we didn't take, not the ones we did and failed at.

The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to ...

It was as if, after years of setting aside memories,the pile had grown too high, and had tumbled, obliging her to take an inventory of ...

Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works.She had reached a point in her life where ...

To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the ...

Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of Hades, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people ...

In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a ...

A writer visualises life in words, a painter in colours, a singer in music, an actor in emotions, a dancer in steps...

Whoa. He had ghouls on speed dial. My lawyer kicks so much ass.

A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.

You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole ...

Listen if you want to be heard

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

It is important to be able to do stuff alone and not have her give you a hard time about it.

Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common ...

I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ...

She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. ...

The "eat" part was easy. The praying and loving were harder.

Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a ...

What stood in one corner of the cell was disgusting: two empty disinfectant canisters and one well used and well stained piss pot, the sort ...

If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too ...

One may conquer millions in battle, but he who conquers himself, only one, is the greatest of conquerors.

She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck ... she's outta this world ... she's bold, inventive ...

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

Thought alone is eternal

Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ...

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

When a man don't know his own mind, Miss Shirley, ma'am, how's a poor woman going to be sure of it?

Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. ...

Nick wanted to meet on campus at Love Library. (That was the actual name; thank you for your donation, Mayor Don Lathrop Love.)

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

I want to drink from you're life force.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, ...

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what ...

The only journey is the one within.

The cat came first, in order to be absolute first. It arrived when all the cribs and closets and cellar bins and attic hang-spaces still ...

I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and ...

We shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, ...

You can bullied as a young model, but there was a point where I found my voice, effectively.

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' ...

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. ...

What's a strapless bra?" he finally asked."LIKE A TOURNIQUET FOR YOUR CHEST.""Can you breathe if you're wearing it?""BARELY

I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I ...

The leech is more developed than the flatworm, with one glial cell for every 30 neurons, and the glial cells occupying 51 percent of the ...

Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

You finally have to learn to pull all the different kinds of teaching and training and coaching together on you own, so that your voice ...