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If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, ...

I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization ...

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump ...

The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, ...

Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds ...

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.[Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosumIllue unde negant redire quemquam.]

For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, ...

Harry, we saw Uranus up close!" said Ron, still giggling feebly. "Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus - ha ha ha - ...

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to ...

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier ...

You can't expect so much from love, otherwise you'll feel utterly disappointed when things don't go your way.

I have loved flowers that fade,Within whose magic tentsRich hues have marriage madeWith sweet unmemoried scents:A honeymoon delight,A joy of love at sight,That ages in ...

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

She felt abused, used, cherished, and pleasured.She despised him. She loved him. She mistrusted him. She had complete faith in him. Ah!

The past is blind. The future is unwanting. All you need is in front of you.

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and ...

True listening and understanding occurs only when the other person understands that you understand.

Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - ...

And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often forget - or try to: that no man has a wholly ...

You're going to have 100s of millions of users on Chrome, spanning mobile, tablets, and desktops. That is one unfragmented base. That uniformity is probably ...

Some of the more outstanding features of Ugaritic are its preservation of most of the Proto-Semitic consonantal phonemes.

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's ...

Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk ... somewhere ...

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation ... surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been ...

But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I ...

The most significant events, Bishop seems to argue, are destined to remain outside the scope of description. It is perhaps their very status as excessive ...

But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely ...

The usefulest truths are the plainest.

The cabbage white flies through the tailor's cheek. The tailor sinks his head. The cabbage white flies out of the back of the tailor's head, ...

He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, ...

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what ...

Our country is wherever we are well off.[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!

It was orbital, it was mag, it was beyond the ult.

She seemed a series of slight flaws best expressed in a beauty spot above her right lip. And he understood that the sum of all ...

My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of ...

It is better to believe even what is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like the rest of the ...

Yes!" Narissus unslung his bow and grabbed an arrow from his dusty quiver. "The first one who get that bronze, I will like you almost ...

It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of ...

'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever ...

I see you've got an unwanted visitor." He walked to stand beside Doris just as she poked at the gator with the table leg and ...

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as ...

Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how ...

They say this fruit be like unto the world / So sweet. Or like, say I, the heart of man / So red without and ...

To be, in a word, unborable ... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you ...

One of the most impressive aspects of Jesus is how he was impressed by unimpressive people.

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better ...

There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking ...

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

There was nothing in store at Undershaw for his lordship but a set-down, but it was disappointing to be granted no opportunity to deliver this.

When you fall in love with life, every limitation disappears. You break the limitations on money, health, happiness, and the limits of joy in your ...

The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the ...

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction ... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping ...

I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the ...

Friendship is the best kind of ship.

Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so ...

Fair warning, baby. I'm in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn't play fair or nice.--Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson

The guard said, 'Our orders are no one in or out.''You can tell the Prince that,' said Damen, 'after you tell him you let through ...

Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the ...

...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'.

They were both poles apartOne a ready masterpieceAnother an unfinished art...

There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room ...

Urrrrnngh.What is that noise.Regretful polar bear.

Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what ...

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; ...

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

With knowledge there is no hope, ... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas ...

That's just where I must part company with you, Inspector," said the Vicar with a gentle smile. "I'm rather a voracious reader of mystery stories, ...

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance ... Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot ...

The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story ...

Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest ...

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you ...

During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a ...

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

There are so many unpunished crimes in the world; indeed, they cover an area so vast, so ancient, so broad and wide that, up to ...

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

It is the contention of Mr Norrell of Hanover-square that everything belonging to John Uskglass must be shaken out of modern magic, as one would ...

I can attest to the fact that life is more fun if you can ignore outside opinions.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

Everything about Enzo whispers of danger, of murder in the name of righteousness. I'm desperate to pull away. I ache for more. I tremble uncontrollably, ...

Leadership is about making people feel safe. When someone feels heard, they feel safe.

The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded ...

The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing ...

Urgh, her,' Suki groaned. "Yeah, she's still with us. And she's still a pain in the culo. I'm learning Spanish,' she said brightly. "Culo means ...

Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without ...

It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.

When you constantly push your mind and body in your chosen field and never give up your confidence will be unshatterable!