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Swearing invulnerably, I measure mercilessly his shortcomings, and with luxurious scorn, ask who could be ensnared there.

I asked her why she was getting so upset about such a small thing. She said, 'It doesn't feel small to me.

Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's girlfriend at Homestead High, ...

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God ...

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, ...

The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.

Plutonium is the darling and the demon of the nuclear age.

Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than ...

The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.

Of all the opportunities my priesthood authority affords, there is none grander than the privilege of being in one of our temples and representing the ...

Because I demand to be treated like the unique snowflake I am.

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

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

Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never ...

The first requisite for immortality is death.

So many teachers teach us but we shall always remember certain teachers

What could he have done, one man against so many? He could have tried, Brienne thought.

I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. ...

I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very ...

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases ...

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first ...

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

In today's vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that ...

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

Taylor: what do you hear? Daisy: Nothing but rain

A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.

We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of ...

Perhaps the fire had destroyed everything and we would go back tomorrow and find that the past six years had been burned and they were ...

Maybe the life of a cat involves nothing but wondering when food comes and if they will ever have sex with another cat. From here, ...

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get ...

Reagan wore eyeliner all the way around her eyes. Like a hard-ass Kate Middleton. And even though she was bigger than most girls-big hips, big ...

Monsters," he said slowly, "all want the same thing: to feed. They are united by that common goal, while you are all divided by your ...

A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by ...

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for ...

When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.

Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative ...

I thought at the time that it was noble to bear the ills one had silently. But not so silently that others didn't know one ...

Aside from the fruit basket, the room was as empty as the inside of Dexter on the shelf marked SOUL.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

The air was filled with obscure ideas

Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow.'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs ...

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of ...

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a ...

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

Some stupid fairy tale charecter. Like a cheap plastic toy you'd get get by sending in the top of a lucky charms box plus $3.99 ...

My greatest competition is, well, me.

Either way,though, we must remember that this is a dangerous sport.Right, Colin thought. We have guns and the pigs have snouts. Dangerous, indeed.

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and ...

Brahma is said to have produced the world by a kind of fall or mistake; and in order to atone for his folly, he is ...

Hmmm ... cooking with wine? I usually drink wine while cooking ... I do a good braised short ribs with cabernet, though. We're big red ...

Why would the gods send a warning if we can't heed it and change what's to come?

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be ...

At the start of our together you were the prelude to a vast orchestration. at the end of it all you will have been the ...

People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health.

My family is large and in charge! That's my favorite way to describe them.

They had sold everything that was any good, and there wasn't anything to eat anymore, and still the people went on fucking all the time.Fucking ...

You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on ...

When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade ...

Everyone's unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis' (Self-realized person's) duty.

I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find ...

I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the ...

There was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness ...

Freedom is a gift to use your will and perception to impose a moral structure on yourself. Without the freedom to choose our path, we ...

The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue ...

Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition ...

You're still such an unbelievably good-looking man. I need you, Kane." Avery watched lust darken his husband's eyes.

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.

Stop asking yourself how or why and tell yourself you can." - Charmainism

I try to aim high and put myself in positions where I'm the least experienced person.

I'm too romantic for my own good. And okay, you get kicked in the butt sometimes. But, frankly, I'd rather have, you know - actual ...

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

Got to lose control before you take control.

To be set aside is to be rejected.To be set apart is to be given an assignment that requires preparation.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, ...

You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you ...

The Uncommon Reader, a novella by Alan Bennett

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, ...

The question is not, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The question is, "Do you want God?"

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of ...

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.

I was seriously not cut out for undercover work - which was pretty damn obvious, judging by the fact that I was currently cuddling with ...

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!

I've had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

There is no way that the new WikiLeaks leaks don't leave Hillary Clinton holding the smoking gun. The time for her departure may come next ...

I love what I do, but it is hard to have a personal relationship when you're never home.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

It shall dwell roses, from your sweet tears in my heart.