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The amount of time you invest in a film is not directly proportional to its success.
Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian's mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted ...
My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the ...
We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at ...
Every year, tens of millions of salmon return to the pristine shores of Bristol Bay in Alaska. They linger in the bay's cool, shallow waters ...
The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine
Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems ...
As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man's ...
Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway ...
Maybe he's right. Maybe I am playing with fire, but I cannot stop myself. Beyond reason, I will push him until he reveals everything.
She also knew that the sadness she felt while pregnant, for strangers, for the entire world, did not feel like hormones so much as a ...
A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, ...
Price and Cost. Sometimes we pay more. Sometimes we pay less. You've got to determine what you are willing to pay for success.
Stop trying to be perfect. Try being real for a change.
Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.
She prays to feel as powerful as she might if God sang silentwords into her ear and answeredall the rattling questions now ...
I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we ...
The best leaders make mistakes and then learn from them. The best leaders never make the same mistakes again. The only way you can learn ...
My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an ...
May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and ...
I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one ...
Serving a God who is relentless in His pursuit to save me is my daily reminder that the value I place on my myself or ...
Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.
Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity ...
You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the ...
He could do with some lunch. Especially since that bastard Sloane gave his Cheesy Doodles away. What kind of guy does that? A bastard, that's ...
After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating, I found myself sitting in the ...
Stop making me fall in love with you."I smile now, taking her face in my hands. "I'll never stop that, babe, ever." I kiss her ...
I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You ...
Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don't think yourself into success.
My parents aren't hippies. I'm North as in the North Pole. Unfortunately. My brother is Nicholas, and my sister is Noelle.Wow. God. That'sAbout a hundred ...
Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain ...
I couldn't even see that woman because I have blinders on when you are around, and every single thought in my head is about you.
It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
She was the most precious thing in the world to him. So beautiful, so sweet, so giving and too damn good for him, but he ...
Tis not what you crave that feeds your soul...Tis my sunshine right after the rainWhen my ravishing rays unfold.
God is no saint, strange to say. There is much to object to in him, and many attempts have been made to improve him.
The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to ...
First, though, she had to go back out there and smile at everyone. Fake her way through the rest of the night and another three ...
What she means? Sure, whatever. It's not like I thought that this is the carving, the flying, the healing of my wounds. Sometimes you don't ...
Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. ...
Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So ...
He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe.
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single ...
I have an unending shoe closet. In fact, I don't even know how many shoes I have.
Bast stood in the doorway, practically dancing with irritation. When he spotted the approaching figure he rushed down the street, waving a piece of paper ...
Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning - set your intention every day.
Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them ...
A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no ...
I like when a guy has his shirt off and I can see his chest and his abs. When it's all smooth, you can see ...
We can ... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth ...
I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. ...
How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?
If only ... the saddest words in the English language.
When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, ...
Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone with you ... ...
Since the Goddess always has been honored in sacred groves, it is understandable that patriarchs, then as now, leaned toward deforestation.
Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it ...
He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he ...
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Although the method is simple, it shows how, mathematically, random brute force can overcome precise logic. It's a numerical approach that uses quantity to derive ...
I can't wait to sit with these unbelievable broads and relive a time where sleep did not exist, where stress and coffee were mama's little ...
It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering
The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and ...
When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's ...
How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read.
Because you fight it out, and stumble, and write bad poetry, and pick yourself up again, and at the end, hopefully, someday youre sitting with ...
Think of something new you've actually learned in the past week; if you can't think of anything, get comfortable where you're at because you're not ...
Having all those women together in one place was like looking through a photo album of my life: from when I was a baby to ...
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than ...
I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, ...
Are ye hungry?" she asked, her voice soothing.His stomach growled. "I could cut the heart out of a stag and eat it raw."She chuckled. "Fortunately, ...
I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It's my responsibility ...
Walking up to the Whisky some guys said to me 'the Scene is dead. Stop wearing makeup faggot!' All I could do was smile and ...
If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If ...
She is elegant rather than belle.
People enter our lives for a season, a reason, or a lifetime.
Picking your own jobs means you get to exercise your own ethics. But ethics isn't a science. Which is to say... You do your best... ...
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her ...
Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still ...
I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, ...
I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in ...
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. ...
Matters of the heart are so incalculable!
The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this ...
Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
I can't reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can't state at length what I've said curtly; I achieve an altered state that ...
We must remember in our struggles that our duty lies outside of trying to understand God's plan. He never asks that of us. Instead, He ...
I'm actually listening to Turner's advice. I know it sounds stupid as hell, but sometimes, if you dig through his words, there are little nuggets ...
When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it's made from decay and become part of the soils around and above it, ...
He took in a premeditated breath, closed his eyes, and exhaled into the nye at his lips, playing a new tune.It was not the sad ...
Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.
I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came ...
There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's ...
I seem to be on a road, walking, greeting the hedgerows, the rose-hips, the apples and thorn. I seem to be on a road, walking, ...
Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides ... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.