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To say that Doctor Tenace loved death is probably too much, but decay, especially mental or soul decay fascinated him. He was hypnotised by the ...

I thought to myself, beware of those who look like a rose, for even roses have spikes.

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried ...

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with memories of their past?

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in ...

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

Adrian's new research partner stepped through the door, and I knew the uneasy peace we'd just established in Palm Springs was about to shatter.Dimitri Belikov ...

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company ...

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, ...

I believe that half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

If there is a recurring theme in Garfield's diaries it's this: I'd rather be reading.

I always felt I understood myself better after we spent time together. And the way she laughed at my wisecracks and thanked me for my ...

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it ...

LOVE STRETCHES YOUR HEART AND MAKE YOU BIG INSIDE

Sick and sicker and sickest. What was real and what was fake? Was Amma really sick and needing my mother's medicine, or was the medicine ...

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not ...

Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies ...

You made quite an impression on the old man, by the way.""You mean Uncle Yuri?""He said he'd marry you. If you weren't related. And if ...

We'll get to the truth quicker if we don't worry about logic.

There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The

When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.

Make it easier for your citizens to be healthy and smart and they will save you in ways you have yet to imagine. Make it ...

This is Mr. Round.""SHORT Round.

Getting hurt physically, failing, persevering, and succeeding (despite overwhelming odds) are key factors in a male's growth toward manhood.

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the ...

Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: "Contempt for death." For us ...

I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects ...

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ...

Do what you love. It's going to lead to where you want to go.

Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in ...

Getting fired from work paves way for a new beginning

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen,

When we think about lung cancer, the biggest environmental factor is without doubt smoking. Um, that would make a huge impact and has made a ...

Relaxing, intelligent feeling of being surrounded by generation after generation of thought.

You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was ...

These three laws of Kepler give a complete description of the motion of the planets around the sun.

People always snap and think they're Jesus. How come no one ever snaps and thinks they're Buddha?

Begin to recognize prosperity everywhere, and rejoice in it.

If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely ...

Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your ...

The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way ...

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.

Life is as beautiful, as you want to see it.

Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is ...

If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs ...

Writers can write whatever they want, but after THE END, when they self publish their book, they become accountable to readers for the quality of ...

I may not have hands to hold my wife's hands, but I don't need hands to hold her heart. That's what I'm gonna hold

God Lord, give me strength. Please keep the local firefighters away from me. Keep me out of the path of hardened abs and tall men ...

I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've ...

...I won't ever again allow doubt to come in and dissolve my ability to live life as fully as I can.

Half fish," he said. "Fish that you were. I am sorry that I went too far out. I ruined us both. But we have killed ...

Don't cry,nyonda," he murmured.Phillipa took a deep breath. "What does that mean, anyway? Nyonda?"His green gaze held hers. "It's Swahili. It means 'beloved.'" A small ...

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.

Feel this arm," said Simon. "Rock hard! I don't mean to brag, but it's all bone. All bone.

Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final ...

Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper.

When I went into the computer shop to change my last laptop, the 19-year-old kid behind the counter looked at my six-year-old model and described ...

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.

Pray tell, what is wrong with the swimsuit model that I have delivered to your doorstep?

'Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program.

I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and ...

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

The trick is to find a day job that pays decently, doesn't make you want to vomit, and leaves you with enough energy to make ...

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

Listen, Sean," Dani says. "I need you to do something. My treatment isn't over yet, and my mom and I still have rough times ahead. ...

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

There are those times we are afraid of the dark, but our fears don't mean there is actually danger. God is in the darkness with ...

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose ...

Her words, they're not warm anymore. She might want me to hear them that way, but they're burning me up instead. In my mind. In ...

Pretend to the rest of the world, Mia. I understand your need to do that. But don't pretend with me.

I'm first and foremost a biological explorer. I've looked all over the world for answers. Secondly, I'm an ecological designer, and by that I mean ...

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a ...

Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of ...

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, ...

The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing ...

Samantha sighed. "Then I'll get out of the damned car, figure out which wolf in this damnable forest is you, and beat you until you ...

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Than that as Bex turned her back and started to take

I stretched out my hands as if to ward him off. "Not yet. I want to know what your end game is first." Another flash ...

For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and ...

How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he ...

As Trungpa Rinpoche put it, "Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas." Bodhichitta

I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit of perfection, getting ...

With my kids I have to get involved in the Scooby Doo games and the basic kid games that go on. I find myself getting ...

Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even though I think ...

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. ...

There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal ...

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an ...