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When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that ...

My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

The most successful exploiter is the one who makes others feel that he or she has their best interests at heart.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, ...

I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the ...

Happiness is within you ... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the ...

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. ...

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk to potential dates, ...

Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our ...

It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or ...

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, ...

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight or my satisfaction. ...

The only way to help someone is when you know they cannot return you back.Anything else is just business.

Learn to let go. You do it a little at a time.

There is an original inside me.

It is not places that are dangerous, but people

The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity ...

Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens that sing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

Karna gave a mirthless smile and replied evenly,'What is the use of a competition if one cannot be compared with others? Talk is the weapon ...

If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will ...

I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our ...

Oxford University offered prizes for the works that attacked Vedic knowledge.

The sooner you stop fighting, the easier your life will be. That is what your purpose is."Lana stood so abruptly she nearly fell backward. "No.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

Art didn't have to provide answers. It only had to ask questions.

Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American.

It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.

For the first time in my whole damn life I can look into a girls eyes and find her looking right back at me. Not ...

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and ...

You know, just once, I'd like my life to be all about spending Sunday afternoon in my pajamas,

If everybody went around understanding each other without asking questions or speaking their mind, they'd never get anywhere.

She hadn't planned on having another beer, but then ... when did she ever plan to drink another one? They usually just followed one after ...

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great ...

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,Love can transpose to form and dignity.Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged ...

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind.

He who falls in love in bars doesn't need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.

Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children; or for anyone.I would give up the unessential; I would ...

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought ...

The problem with always having to be right is that sometimes you're not. And so, if you're like me, those times when you're not, you ...

I usually go for anything that makes me laugh endlessly. that's very important criteria.

What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?

There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the ...

God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

I've always felt at home in the Church. Catholics are often more laid back than they are given credit for - presumably because at the ...

The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way ...

Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.

When we spend money we lose them forever, when we give them away, we will have them forever.

I need to work smarter, harder, faster, and longer than you. And if I still don't come out in front, then simply changing directions will ...

136. - There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. ...

Nothing smells worse than a mans restroom in a bar, well that's what the lady told me when I called her number from the wall.

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

The business of the country is business.

It's a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties - P. Diddy, Diddy Puff. But he was ...

In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

Have an appreciating eye to enjoy the beauty of sky.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take ...

Once, my mum told me a story about a princess, and it began with her stuck in a castle. My story beings with my head ...

I start to run down the hill, but did I mention I can't feel my feet? They slip out from under me. I tumble head ...

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

He told me to be funny for the Fat Lady, once.

When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York ...

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

This was not a love he had heard of, this was not a love sung by poets, celebrated in stories.

My dear Hiram," cried Mrs. Otis, "what can we do with a woman who faints?" "Charge it to her like breakages," answered the Minister; "she ...

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

When we seek to escape from inner conflict and pain, we are running away from unresolved childhood trauma or original pain. Most people with serious ...

You can "listen to your heart" as long as you remember that it has an I.Q. of zero.

I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every ...

...push back the hood of grief...

Lower prices are not service; they're just lower prices.

I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking ...

I'm really obsessed with the past.

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, ...

Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at ...

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

Surround yourself with people strong enough to change your mind.

There's always a puppet and a puppeteer in a relationship. Take your time to find out which one you are.

You should do the dramatic door-opening thing," I told Curran. "Would you like to see me do the dramatic door-opening thing?" "Yes, I would. Very ...

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - ...