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All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of ...
Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper ...
What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's ...
Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was ...
Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.
(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ... project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their ...
One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.
I can't stand Bob Dylan.
Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of ...
Now, about your timetable. It may spread out a little more than you thought. They want me to visit the palace and see it for ...
Is commonly felt that the
Family drama is a trade off for having family.
I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers ...
And the lone Jedi that exists - the son of Anakin Skywalker - possesses an untouchable soul. At least for now.
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize ...
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can't afford ...
I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns
Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.
You can't come back to TV for two months. It's too short. You can't start anything. It's too much of a tease and there's really ...
I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found ...
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of ...
That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the rootdrinker patting their ...
Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to ...
Writing is my own personal therapy. It's cheaper than a real shrink and I get to kill people off when I grow bored of them.
Writing unlocks the heart and soul that we might be receptive to God's blessings.
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as ...
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath ...
Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.
Nothing could happen to me in the water that would make me want to go on the beach and fight someone. That's just not how ...
A small town outside of Arizona, Sergei Zukov, a Russian drug czar, questioned a young woman tied to a chair in her own home,
You shouldn't look too far to find people to care about or people who will care about you. Because if you stop looking, the people ...
As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man ...
You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.
I guess after a certain age, things change and those things or people or friendships that happen in movies, just don't happen in real life.
But Dick had come away for his soul's sake, and he began thinking about that. He had lost himselfhe could not tell the hour when, ...
Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich ...
Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and ...
Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your ...
I have the best daddy in the whole world, and I will miss him every day. When I see a crocodile, I will always think ...
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
Meralda opened her eyes. "I'm for a bath," she said. "Now, and Yvin be hanged."Shingvere crowed. "At last, our battle cry," he said. "A bath, ...
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.
If there's one dude that everyone on the Upper West Side will welcome with open arms, it's the fucking jogger.
Sometimes life seemed particularly unfair, unduly harsh, and beyond bearing.
No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This ...
More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love ...
For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.And to her, he ...
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until ...
I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a ...
It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.
You never know what will save you.
I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.
The way I see it, men and women oughtn't to get married just because. You should marry when you're really truly in love, forever. When ...
SPIKE: Settling down is only good for one kind of man.JESSE: The p*ssy kind?SPIKE: Nah, the strong sort. You're a strong man, and you're honest. ...
It was the product of a mind that was not merely twisted, but actually sprained.
There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.
Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.
There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking ...
My father for teaching me the grace of power unused, and mother for teaching me the joy of power used well.
As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a ...
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did ...
Limit your exposure to unhealthy and unsupportive people.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase ...
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you ...
I get why no one bothers with the usual rules," ... "I was in the war, too, you know. Nothing looks or feels the same ...
The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.
Life is a juggling act with your own emotions. The trick is to always keep something in your hand and something in the air.
I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
The ones that always, always want something better, will never find better.
I never dealt with excessive body fur. But having barely made love to a tampon, my privates were truly untainted.
There will be no guilt, no repentance, because these things never change people. People remain the same; they just go on changing their outer garb, ...
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it to immoral ends.
People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.
No, don't blush, with your hair it makes you look like a pomegranate.
Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in ...
I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.
I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.
Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly
No system which implies control by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.
As we spend more, and as companies are pushed to invest, they say, "Hey wait a minute! There's more demand in the system. Let's invest ...
If we protect the 'underhand' [those working under us], then the 'boss' will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the 'underhand', then the boss will ...
We are what God calls us to be. Even if we're not what he's calling us to be, we are. Because he called us.
Love must wait; it must break one's bones.
The days pile up and weigh small decisions down, don't they? That decision not to visit. The first few days slide by easy enough; anger ...
The smile of an angel that had my heart sprouting wings.
You never really see me acting a fool on TV.
An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels.
Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about ...