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He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine ...

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. People of Sparks

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, ...

God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what I'd done to deserve ...

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

Unintentional foreshadowing is unintentionally hilarious.

I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in ...

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and ...

Sometimes you think someone is holding your hand when really they're holding you back.

All pain, pleasure and self-limitation either originate in theconscious mind or is accepted uncritically from an outside source.

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before ...

No matter what there always seems to be something clouding my existence, nothing is ever clear.

You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open ...

Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids ...

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his ...

There's a difference between not caring about what others think, and not caring about yourself. Your problem is you don't even care about you. And ...

Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity ...

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes ...

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint ...

Did you read last nights assignments?" Say "yes'" and get hammered again. Say "no'" and the same thing would happen.

One of the most underutilized resources we have on the planet today is the good intentions of citizens and our willingness to make a difference.

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of ...

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us ...

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

It doesn't matter if I'm off the beat. It doesn't matter if I'm snapping to the rhythm. It doesn't matter if I look like a ...

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze ... think of it as a dance in your honor.

You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start ...

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

One should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

The Mayor's wrong -He's wrong forever and ever -It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you.It's that you need ...

Droughts and floods create all kinds of business opportunities besides a growing demand for men with guns.

My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell ...

Don't limit your relationship with God. Walk and talk with Him all day, every day!

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not necessarily ...

My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot ...

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

For a Comfortable Journey of Life,Just Reduce the Luggage of Desires.

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's ...

But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

Playing Sheldon is just heaven for me. I realize how enormously lucky I am to play a role that makes me so incredibly happy. As ...

That soft seduction of need and want, an equation of dependence that eases under the skin, so slow and sweet, only to lay a man ...

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is ...

Pavarotti is dead and the streets are full of arias, my brother. Every window a tenor leans,there are sopranos in the olive branches. And all ...

Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like ...

Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't ...

My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change ...

My notebook was filled with images of things a lady had no business being fascinated by, yet I couldn't control my curiosity.

When somebody you love dies, you want the world to just stop, but it doesn't ... everything keeps going, and so it's up to you ...

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to ...

There is a kind of classlessness in the theater. The rehearsal pianist, the head carpenter, the stage manager, the star of the show-all are family.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we ...

If you want to be at peace, you have to be clear about your intetion and - moment by moment - in alignment with your ...

In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.

Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood, The one-armed ...

Talking about unpleasant things during a meal is not good for digestion, not good for health.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

After a while, Eve thought, marriage turned walls into clear glass so both of you could see right through each other.

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is ...

I love, I absolutely, love the Office and Curb your Enthusiasm. Those are just classic shows.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

To her it seemed an inevitable thing as much a part of herself as her breathing; and yet it appeared transcendent of self, and she ...

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the ...

At Rangers you are never more than 2 defeats away from a crisis!

I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go ... The biggest thing ...

Then we just took it and ran with it, and then just wrote as many scenes as we could with the Minions. Now we have ...

Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.

You know teenage boys, you own one-Mason Lerner

We do not want to have mercy for the things God has under judgment. We do not want to fall in the ditch on the ...

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance ...

This better not be a pregnant thing or your hot little ass is gonna live knocked up for the next thirty years.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye ...

The ladies of Italy, seemingly carefree, wore constructions of iron beneath their silks. It took infinite patience, not just in negotiation, to get them of ...

A drive in the country, an expedition to a shoe shop a quiet cup of tea under a cloudless sky; each of us had something ...

The man comes closer. I recognise him. It's Johannes, who teaches rudiments and solfege at the local school. I raise my hand in the notes ...

These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all.

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also ...

A monkey could do my job better and with more hilarious results.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially ...

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

The Pilgrims believed beer was an unalloyed good, a 'good creature of God.' People who did not drink were suspect and 'crank-brained.

Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.

The world is nothing but your own magnified mind.

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had ...

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.