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He might as well have been talking English, for all Mae understood him.

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

The frozen fish were later put in deep holes in the moss and covered over to keep until they were needed.

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our ...

The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in ...

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.

People shouldn't pinky swear if they don't mean it because the pinky is the weakest finger out of the five. If you want to truly ...

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

The greatest graduates come from the University of Life.

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.

I flicked a comb through my wet hair, for all the good it would do, and said, "How do I look?""Mostly human," she said."That's what ...

If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.

There are no victims in the universe, only creators. The Masters who have walked this planet all knew this.

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

People get starstruck when they meet me, it's quite funny.

It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.

When you do television, there's more to do, and when you do new television, there's a lot more to do, especially when you don't have ...

You're the girl you take out to dinner. Get the good champagne. You pay her attention. Buy her some shit that softens her up and ...

Echo James's exhortation to those of us in the church today: My brothers and sisters who have received the Holy Spirit, we often lack love, ...

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

God gives quietness at last.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it.

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater ...

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since ...

We can react with bitterness and hate God, as some do, or we can accept suffering as a natural part of life and a condition ...

Closed doors are a test of our faith. Keep moving forward, being your best, living with determination and faith. When you do, you'll see amazing ...

Udah ya. Before we say things we're going to regret forever. -Twivortiare-

I always thought that for me the unassuming, friendly looking guy next door is certainly scarier as a monster than the monsterish looking predator, because ...

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.

I loved him more than I loved pralines and beignets, and that was hardcore, because my love of sugary, sweet things rivaled the most epic ...

Southly thru shrubby heath we tromped now till we got to wideway. Wideway I'd heard o' from storymen an' here it was, an open, long, ...

I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever ...

There are no short cuts to victory, battles must be fought for victories to be won.

The quadriga was led by a young man, who stood upright, holding the bridles of the steeds, while the morning sun was shining behind his ...

A bird, unable to fly, is still a bird; but a human unable to love is an inexpensive stone: like a piece of uric acid ...

A pleasure that is ephemeral brings no true satisfaction to any man. How miserable must be the lives of those folk who labor so hard ...

You upped the ante with the wrong vampire, Caitlin.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in ...

The Santa Ana Windgusts downdesert canyons.Hot. Dry. Electric.Some say it ignites tempers.I say it ignited us.

I still tend to read more urban fantasy and romance than science-fiction, but every once in a while, a couple of books will come along ...

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is open.

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is ...

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who ...

If you want more than what most have, then you must do far more than what it is they do.

So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you ...

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.

They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen ...

He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about ...

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with ...

When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch ...

Everything he has learned tells him to leave; Everything he has wished for tells him to stay.

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.

[It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or ...

I looked at her moonskin face her pansy eyes and her cobweb hair and I knew I would go on giving her one last chance ...

I should have told you I overheard. Let you explain. I'm sorry." Straight up apology. It took balls to do shit like that, even for ...

Just for the record, a nymphomaniac girlfriend might be great material for imagination, but in real life, trust me, having a nympho in your bed ...

It's OK that thoughts don't manifest into reality immediately.

I am magnetically drawn to images, whether they're paintings, photographs, film, or video. They are all lodestones of inspiration to me.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there.

I do believe that painting can change the world.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

A generous heart filled with gratitude is a magnet for abundance.

Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.

The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading ...

Love, as life, is a journey. Finding true love for the ever after is an amazing achievement.

You as a soul you are alive, you as an actor - dead, as a character - dead... That's life, like it or not, it's ...

You be respectable, sister," she said, "Me, I'll be alive.

Every day in life we're told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we're all the same when we remove our ...

And when he [Jesus] had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal ...

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

The chronic fun of writing, the distraction of it, was not knowing.

Do not seek water, get thirst.

The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask ...

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people ...

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

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The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the poetry of enigmatic passages in an unfinished or ...

Make a simple plan, inform everyone involved with it, don't change it, and kick it in the ass.

The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their ...

Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in ...

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself ...

What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing ...

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what ...

My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; but that is so hard. My admiration for women ...

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally