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Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not ...

Ah well, no rest for the wicked and all that. I'll just have to kill him myself.

Sometimes you like the idea of someone so much, you just want to do whatever it takes to make it work.

We drove up to the three-shaded house,

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.

It calls for deciding things on their own merit, not because you read it or were told it or grew up believing it.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad ...

Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that ...

The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his ...

I can't even tell you how many different shows I would love to guest star on because there's just too many.

I grew up kissing books and bread,

I read a lot, still do; keeps me from interacting with others which I am perfectly fine with.

People had long conversations with him, only to realize later that he hadn't spoken.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of six-figure, huge salaries ...

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

What is the greatest weakness? 'Egoism'. No matter how virtuous one may be, as long as the egoism is present; it is all useless. A ...

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Remote viewing is the ability to produce information that is correct about a place, event, person, object, or concept which is located somewhere else in ...

Being able to let go of hurting does not constitute a lack of compassion.

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows ...

Truth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'!

There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, ...

It is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is ...

Sometimes forgiveness is thehardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

We love winners, even though they're very rarely particularly likeable people. They're almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn't matter. We forgive them. ...

I'm feeling great. I'm a star. That's about it.

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social ...

I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.

Everybody forgets names and faces, and it's just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn't your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed (17)

Night never judges, but morning never forgives ...

BLUE, THE colour of the sky, of the ocean, of certain stars and planets and the hue of the bluest eyes you have ever seen.

What's an adventure? Nell said. The word was written across the page. Then both pages filled with moving pictures of glorious things: girls in armor ...

I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, ...

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I ...

In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And ...

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

THE COLONIES OF AMERICA C L O U D . M E D I T E C H . D E S C O N ...

Ou know what real treasure is?....Being happy inside..

What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned ...

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. ...

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

Peace with God and the peace of God in a man's heart and the joy of fellowship with Christ have in themselves a beneficial effect ...

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know ...

I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.

Cause I'm a stealer, fresh up out the dealer All the dope boys gon feel her

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be ...

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

My day-to-day wardrobe, I do mix it up. I'll wear something from Target along with something by YSL. It's about finding the right items that ...

I just need you and some sunsets.

Go ahead. Enjoy the hills and valleys, days and nights, and all the beauty of life.

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events.

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'

I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness ...

He looked around at the others ... They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has noticed ...

Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

When, a few months later, Goldman Sachs announced it was setting aside $542,000 per employee for the 2006 bonus pool, he wrote again: "As a ...

Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms ... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the ...

If we're going to put ourselves out there and love with our whole hearts, we're going to experience heartbreak.

Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.

You want sins, Aunt? I'll show you sinning. I'll make the devil weep, I'll sin so bad.

To hope is to contradict the future.

People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career ...

Hello," said Brannoc politely, despite his terrible hangover."What the hell are you?" demanded the squirrel."We are fairies," answered Brannoc, and the squirrel fell on the ...

He cupped her face, his eyes mingling with hers. "Stay," he whispered. "Please." She could deny him nothing when he looked at her that way. ...

If these pages are thick with death, think of the battlefield. Corpses in different stages of decay, the slowly dying, moments of death exist around ...

There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking.

You put on this set of goggles, and within seconds, your brain is convinced you're now in a different, virtual environment. You're somewhere else, and ...

I believe," she said slowly at last, "that the tormented are very close to God. I'm sorry, Sergeant." He

Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out of foolishness and play, ...

No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part ...

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

When I know I'm not doing any auditions, I go to the skate park on my scooter or my bike.

It was the old New York way ... the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered ...

Thoughts themselves are not a problem, but being identified with thought is.

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for ...