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I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's ...

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but ...

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol."That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.

And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.

Some people don't do well simply because they don't feel well.

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.

In a word, literature is my utopia.

I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know what I'd believe ...

You can never be too paranoid.

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

Creativity is taking a different approach on the world, not the world as we know it, but a world that oneself can create through imagination.

Elated.) And anytime he had to question someone's loyalty.

I learned that working out gives me a space to get clear. It's not just about the body. It gives me space to process things ...

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands ...

You are only as good as your reach, you must hold hands with others

So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart

You have to think before you can feel. You have to conceive before you can perceive.

I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don't sense to be discriminatory in any way. ...

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

I saw within Its depth how It conceivesAll things in a single volume bound by Loveof which the universe is the scattered leaves.

Nothing happens by itself ... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your ...

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of ...

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. ...

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

There can be a big difference between what you think is great and what you actually like.

Have you seen the Olympic uniforms? It's for the American Olympic team and it's berets. To me, nothing says America like a guy in a ...

After considering the source long enough they decided it was correct because it was so fucked up.

Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. ...

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.[Better good afar than evil at hand.]

I am much better now at ambiguities.

Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.

For should your hands drop white and emptyAll the toys of the world would break.

The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. ...

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and ...

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I ...

One day I am gonna grow wingsa chemical reactionhysterical but uselesshysterical and a let down

It is only premarital sex if you are planning on getting married.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors ARE controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally ...

Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.

Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to ...

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

Oh, you like me. You just don't know it yet.

Myth The United States of America is made up of fifty states. Truth Technically, no. There are only forty-six states in the United States - ...

Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.

How can you love a little catso muchin such ashortshorttime?

I thought that was my room," she said, gesturing behind him."It is.""And my shower."He sniffed with irritation. "I have a bathtub.""And that's a problem?""I don't ...

Of course, many people in the universe have also had the misplaced belief that they can safely ignore gravity, mostly after taking some local equivalent ...

The Farthing women tend to leave the party without notice.

With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as ...

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up ...

If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot ...

Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgments. It's the job of a parent to guide his/her child ...

Meet the New World, same as the Old World.

Isn't love worth taking a risk?

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

I was moving briskly. Well, until I realized I had a crazy lady chasing after me. Then I started to run.

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

Appearances have enormous importance, Mr. Kessler. The creation and maintenance of appearances. Appearances govern.

She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar ...

May the strings that bind us never break May our wild asses forever shake May our unquenchable fire keep our dreams awake

It matters little which party has gotten lazy about delivering what their partner craves. It doesn't take too many days or weeks for an unsatisfied ...

The sage puts herself last and is first.

That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the ...

Disappointment is unmet expectations, and the more significant the expectations, the more significant the disappointment.

This isn't like naming your dog Spot.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now thisway, and now hate thatbut love, I think, is winning. Iwill hate, if I have strength; ...

Happiness even makes the wicked good.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

Wanting to change only the British position at the top of the American social structure, John Adams feared that a "rage for innovation" would consume ...

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh?

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

One looks in mirrors to have one's arrogance confirmed.

Thousand of Virginia's are losing their coverage, facing skyrocketing insurance premiums and losing their doctors under Obamacare. Employers across the Commonwealth say that the law ...

Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements ...

Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined ...

A thousand souls could not tear your heart from me ...

I have come to learn about things that intrigue people through their strangeness. But barley did I find myself in you presence than I understood ...

It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that looks ...

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a ...

So you love her still?" She found herself asking."Who?""The vampire. Shamiya."His hand squeezed her calf in gentle reproof."A silly question, cher. You know love cannot ...

If you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.

It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation ... and instead to revel in the mystery.

Even in the stifling bosom of the town,A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charmsThat soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd,That here and there some ...

... he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

The terrible irony is that when our current job turns out to provide neither much money nor much fun, we think we can solve the ...

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! ...

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect ...

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices ...