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What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress ...
Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square ...
There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.
The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl ...
Don't talk then. Paint. Dance. Write. Just don't hold your feelings inside. The longer we let pain hide in our hearts, the more it turns ...
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political ...
Wait," I say. "Aren't soulmates supposed to be perfect? What if you find yours and shes not a virgin, not even a girl? What if ...
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as ...
Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.
I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.
Men are like dogs, Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much ...
No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind ...
Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings ...
Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew ...
Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.
There was something irresistible about popcorn.
I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't ...
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. ...
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods ...
Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.
I love you," I tell him again. "I see that," he laughs, kissing me. "Simple words would have sufficed. You didn't need to knock me ...
I wouldn't stick your tongue out at me unless you intend to use it in the right way."Pausing, I turn back to him. "You're disgusting.""Just ...
There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.
Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as ...
I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!
Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.
I've always been fussier than I can afford to be. I don't just want to do whatever it takes to be successful, I want to ...
I believe that once you find something you love, something that works, why keep looking for more? People always think there is something better around ...
Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward, And then I shall stand among you a seafarer ...
You can be in control of your life ... if you really want to be! Change your thoughts ... keep them clean & happy and ...
Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us.
Asked if an army can be made to imitate the SHUAI-JAN, I should answer, Yes. For the men of Wu and the men of Yueh ...
One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them ...
Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up.
If you're 70th or 80th on the money list, it's not very motivating.
The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that ...
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible ...
God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.
It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant search for ways ...
It's very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles
I'm running out of things to say.I've stopped stealing pages out of poetry books, but last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms ...
This tune goes manly.Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;Our lack is nothing but our leave. MacbethIs ripe for shaking, and the ...
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and ...
Salva shouldered his way through the crowd until he was standing in front of the list. He raised his head slowly and began reading through ...
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to ...
I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ...
I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara. The reality is I shall ...
The sight of an obese poor man - like that of a skinny rich man - is puzzling. ...
Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't ...
I'm not a reactionary.
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand ...
There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.
Mac reflected on the Unseelie King and his concubine:He'd loved her for all timeAfter he'd believed she was goneSunshine to his ice.Frost to her fever. ...
I have done the journey between Tientsin and Peking so many times that I recognize even the stray dogs (known locally as wonks) that frequent ...
Hate is such a strong word ... But I LOVE the fact that I'm going to find myself, so that someday I'll stop using it.
When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as ...
Trying to find solace in the remainingparks and lakes.Now we're forced to get away,take trips to the realplaces. The forest.The ocean.
Sometimes I like her calm, unwild, gentle as a sleeping child,and wonder as she lies, a fur ring,curled upon my lap, unstirring is it me ...
It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.
When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before ...
And you have a bad habit of pretending like you don't need people." There was a bite in his tone. "I'm not sorry I kissed ...
A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved - God - without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage ...
All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection ...
I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.'
Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare ...
[W]hen you find yourself face to face with one [Bondsmage], you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.' ... 'Nice bird, asshole,' said ...
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be ...
Music has always been there for me and is what's helped me through everything. It's like my solace.
It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty
I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.
A good horse makes short miles.
Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.
Lots of people were giving me flak when I made the deal to do the very last season of Scrubs for $350,000 an episode. When ...
Her shoes were short heels, open toe, no straps, red leather, high-class-tart stuff.
Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could ...
Pretended to be interested in her, allowing
Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne
The competencies most relevant to an SSAO role include assessment, evaluation and research, human and organizational resources, law, policy and governance, and leadership.
The city was under the rule of sourcery ... martial lore.
[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.
Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making ...
Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!
The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means ...
In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
I'm no different from any other woman, and the wrong man would turn me into a screamin' shrew in record time.
She found, in visits, relief from the aches of old age. "I have Even in my self in times Past Lost the snse of Paine ...
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
I have come to realise that the most critical of the social media accounts are the least verbal in real life and I can assure ...
I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I have to turn miracle into routine.
I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever ...
...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation to ...
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment ...