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So really there's almost no point in planning anything out at all, because life is so infinitely complex that you can almost never just take ...

Be very suspicious of anyone who does not have books at home or in the office, or who stammers when you ask them about the ...

When I drive, I check out everything I see, and just taking in all those observations helps me think. So I draw and write a ...

It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're ...

If i had to petname my love, i would have crooned 'SUBLIME' since the day i got my tounge ... MB

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

I'm reminded of how wonderful grace is. We simply accept its healing, loving presence. We allow its sweetness to fill us and nourish us. The ...

Prayer is the means by which God has established for God's people to invite the spiritual into the physical, and the invisible realm into the ...

I love tailcoats; I love blazers. I love tailored things.

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 ...

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, ...

I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with ...

The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop!

Than the one outside where my shack

You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may ...

Here's to being single . . . drinking doubles . . . and seeing triple!

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the ...

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, ...

Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and ...

The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send ...

Seoafin, Tonight, you marry The Drakkar. In the ancient tongue, this means The Dragon. Good luck, Sjofn

I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup ...

Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my ...

You've got to admit it takes real genius to start out with nothing and build what she has so brilliantly built. Only

The only argument you can make against having [Confederate] flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it ...

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

Love doesn't look the same after you lose the person who made you see it in the first place...until that one day when you find ...

Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I ...

I am asked if I think the war was a just war ... how can I answer? I was a boy born and raised in ...

I ain't go on media and spazz. That's what crash dummies do. That ain't what I do.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the ...

Everything was a test. Or a lesson. Or a punishment from which he was supposed to learn a lesson, on which he would be tested ...

Sometimes you have to find the patience to wait for good things instead of seeking it out.

If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever used photography for ...

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and ...

It's all arbitrary. Had Faye attended a different school. Had her parents moved away. Had Peggy been sick that day. Had she chosen a different ...

Stanbrook once told me," he said, "that suicide is the worst kind of selfishness, as it is often a plea to specific people who are ...

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your ...

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

I'm one hell of a public speaker, baby. I'm going to let them see the pain, but if you turn around and start treating me ...

Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his ...

The airplane was a complicated system encompassing many components, but to a skilled pilot it still had the intimate quality of a hand tool. The ...

Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.

With large industries throwing out the factory model as counterproductive, it is long past time for schools to do the same. I wonder how many ...

Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can ...

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular ...

I want to try for another record tomorrow. What was that last kind I had? With the chocolate chunks?""Stracciatella.""I'm naming my first daughter after it.""Lucky ...

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

Sometimes, we can't help but to shed tears!

It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone, doesn't mean they deserve it.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let ...

Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against Women ...

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead ...

Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.

On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because ...

The alt-right 2016 is like punk rock 1977: it's daring, new, socially unacceptable, inevitable, and scaring the crap out of everyone.

The monster towered ten or twelve feet tall. Its bright green leathery skin was covered in dirt,moss, leaves, and patches of grass, the stench repulsive. ...

Much like a subtle spider which doth sitIn middle of her web, which spreadeth wide;If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,She feels it ...

When I was your age - about, ooh, a thousand years ago - I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor ...

King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors' hidden treasures. Much ...

Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can ...

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

I need a night out away from crayon drawings on the wall, mushed food in the carpets, and poo-splosions in nappies.

I'm a woman and a lesbian and a feminist and a Jew and so many other things, and those identities are a source of pride ...

That is the most wonderful sentence I have ever heard. I want that on my gravestone. Snuffleupagus was real. No more. Just that. Harper

I drank that sentence and began to glow.

Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or ...

If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who ...

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little ...

We're going to see even more empty restaurants and out of work waiters if fewer of us can pay for our meals. And the end ...

If Sawtooth could put words to the brambled knot forming in his throat, he would tell her: Girl, don't go. I am marooned in this ...

The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in between composition projects, ...

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imaginationev en you.

I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, ...

They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls.

I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered ...

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were ...

All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and ...

Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit ...

I always try to bring a certain masculine presence to what I do. That is part of the dynamic.

Today's difficulties are often a result of yesterday's disobedience.

My pants are on fire!

Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of social pariah.

Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." He was one of my ...

Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big ...

They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

I think it's wrong for the government to subpoena records from journalists involved in national-security reporting (particularly since I do it myself). I do believe ...

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.