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I think I'll just go take a shower, I said. It wasn't until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I'd just come out of the shower. ...

I like people who can't die in their bed.

I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made you cry; and ...

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop ... and that was for the estimate.

I love Fredorator and what they produce and the storytelling of 'Adventure Time' ... There's such a dark, adult underlying theme underneath the whimsical, magical ...

Hiren's boot CD from USB flashes drive: If you have locked yourself in a windows 8 or windows 8.1 PC, (i.e. you have forgotten the ...

Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so ...

Be deliberate in your choices. We are created to do what we are called to do and what we are born to experience, not what ...

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any ...

[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

I fool you. I fool everyone.

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on ...

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more ...

Goats are extremely cute and fairly intelligent (for livestock) and, importantly, delicious.

I don't really tell a joke per se, I build up an attitude and it becomes a joke.

They believe Miles can read it," she said. "Good grief. They must be completely illiterateor desperately gullibleor""French," said Mr Carsington.

The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass graves. Like plutonium ...

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either ...

Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for ...

That is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Life is serious. (Valerius) No, life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. ...

I took the swab using the collection kit that I'd borrowed from Dominic who, I realized, had left the Boy Scout scale behind and was ...

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

Every moment in life is an act of faith

Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long ...

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives ...

I think I've become more understanding of people around me compared to before. I try to understand other people's tendencies and relationships. I've been able ...

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I ...

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to ...

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and ...

I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last ...

Traitors are more dangerous than enemies.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second ...

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast ... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

THE MONASTERY IS A SCHOOL - A SCHOOL IN WHICH WE learn from God how to be happy.

I am frightened. I have known fear before, but there was always an escape; even during the terror of the military coup there was the ...

Wherever you find truth, wherever you discover something new, affirm it, embrace it, enjoy it.

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or ...

What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

The Elephant Man claimed his head was big because, it's so full of dreams. Actually, it's because his skull was shaped like a turkey.

Hey," his fingers went to my chin, lifting my eyes to his, "we can take this slowly." "What is this?" I asked. His eyes went ...

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive, that you ...

The Spirit is the one that is love. Can you understand total love ? Can you understand something that just gives and enjoys giving and ...

Weather forcast for tonight: dark.

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

We are all a little desexualized, a little defeminized. We can't carry our bodies comfortably in a society that is so bent against women. In ...

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or ...

If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

The weight does not life itself, although over time it lightens. Sometimes we need to push. And sometimes that is very hard.

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

It's the accent. Women always swoon for an accent." I rolled my eyes."And does the accent work on you?

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God ... is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want ...

We all dream of making contact with aliens while we can't really understand our neighbors across the border.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars - they would think the country has gone insane.

Even in normal life, I'm not the skinniest model.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that ...

I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer ...

I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

Scotland can't afford to take their minds off the gas

My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.

Oh could I feel as I have felt,-or be what I have been,Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanish'd scene;As ...

We are in fact living organisms that exist in a living universe

Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair.

The most humiliating thing you can do to a man is to save his life.

Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.

When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.

The most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous ... the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, ...

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages ...

So Septimus will be the eighty-second Lord of Stormhold," said Tertius."There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical ...

Just think of me as a canvas and you as the paint, and try and imagine that we are creating a masterpiece that's so beautiful, ...

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

Starting from this day, I will create a chance of happiness that doesn't depend on perfect conditions. My options may not be infinite, but my ...

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be ...

Ronan's voice was slow, petulant. His eyes, though, half-hidden in the dim, warm light of the Camaro's interior they were terrible.

Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music ...

The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may ...

It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been ...

Patternicity is the idea that humans are really talented at finding nonexistent patterns in random noise.

It's just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like.

Women will work out their destinies - much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because ...

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to ...

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

Wisdom comes in the silence of one's chaos

Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ ...