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A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate ...

Men from children nothing differ.

The outbreath is like a whetstone, and the mind is like the knife or sword that is being sharpened on that stone. When you sharpen ...

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

Behind me, Ingrid made a sort of muffled snorting sound. I can only assume she was choking on a breath mint. I shot her a ...

There is no attempt made by these simple and honest men, the father and son, to pretend that the dead woman was anything greatly other ...

Come back to me, to my bed. Where we can make love. Every single night. For as long as we both shall live. That's the ...

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be ...

Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.

Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.

I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, ...

People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values.

Once you're on the pleasure express, it's hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

He was the sun and I was just a speck of dust, existing on his horizon. Eventually I would burn up and the sun would ...

At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling ...

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my ...

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain ...

Hold tight the gift seeds in thy palms. Sow them all when the time is right. By God's wisdom they'll grow, not by thy might. ...

Everyone is alien. And even when you are in love with someone, even when you think you know them better than you know yourself; even ...

Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things ...

Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.

The first step in becoming a truly happy person is to make peace with your life. The second step will be to spread that peace ...

No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have ...

You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had ...

Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional ... transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers ...

Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder, Don't break my ...

One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or ...

Some people wish it would happen, some pepole want it to happen, others make it happen

And the idea of nothingness - the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling - has, in my dear master's work and ...

Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come ...

Always the answer - yes! Let me die so - Under some rosy-golden sunset, sayingA good thing, for a good cause! By the sword,The point ...

Seven Steps to Success1) Make a commitment to grow daily.2) Value the process more than events.3) Don't wait for inspiration.4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure ...

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or ...

Myself, I'm just a simple country boy who spent time on the streets and developed a style of writing and rapping and a cool sound ...

Here it is: our collaboration with Project Spark . Instead of a traditional music video for GUILTY ALL THE SAME (feat. Rakim), we are giving ...

Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from ...

My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and ...

Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment. ...

One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in ...

He could almost feel her spirit leaving him,see her runing gracefully across the stepping-stones made of stars into the land of the dead

This is what I have. The dull hangover of waiting, the blush of my heart on the damp grass,the flower-faced moon. A gull broods on ...

I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense ...

Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to ...

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and ...

I argue that in a world where people must support their opinions with evidence and reason rather than faith, we would experience less conflict over ...

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

We can't predict what type of sustaining graces God will provide for us. And we can't expect that the kind of sustaining grace someone else ...

I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day ...

She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in the ...

A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the ...

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well ...

Some people become an integral part of our lives; others are ships that pass in the night. Short stories, in fact. My

I do not fear of death because my world had lost it's colour and I had lost my happiness. But life goes on. So, I ...

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There ...

St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

William James said, "You cannot travel without until you have travelled within." Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." People who discover their ...

My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family's life and experience. ...

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

For truly, what computer has not asked whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous instructions?

I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.

No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost ...

Ronin had tried desperately to be smart about it all. He really, really tried. He knew she was absolutely plowed. He knew she would probably ...

Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I ...

The essence of the CEO's job is strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.

He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.

A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys ... And for seventeen long years I was ...

There is no word for time.Today we willnot think to number another summeror watch its white bird into the ground.

It never gets easier. Sometimes I'm met with confusion, and sometimes anger, but the hardest is the sadness. Sadness can break a person. It can ...

When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are ...

If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory ...

I have gotten better at being patient and sitting with discomfort. Before I would worry and try to fix an issue and force circumstances to ...

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained ...

No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or ...

Swiss cheese model' of accidents. Imagine a series of safety

Success is the result of actions. Stop wishing and start doing.

Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herselfexcept that ...

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition ...

Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ... the ...

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and ...

Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and yet at the ...

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance ...

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally ...

Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure ...

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

A town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve

Neither could speak. It was the day that a silence settled on the pair of them, and they were bound close by it. Will felt, ...

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

The warmth and sun-drenched days of late summer, had been replaced by the cold, darkness of November, where the crisp chill served as a precursor ...

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for ...

Well, I'm sure I hope your health may be good, Louisa; for if your head begins to split as soon as you are married, which ...

Never sit back and wait for a opportunity to find you, get up and search for one, it exists find it!

Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. ...

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be ...