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My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot ...

People aren't studying the natural world any more, they're mining it. It's a looter mentality. Anything new or unknown is automatically of interest, because it ...

The virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily ...

Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to ...

I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't ...

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' ...

He cares for you, you know." Violetta turns her head briefly in the direction of the closed doors. "Magiano. I've seen him standing guard outside ...

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

You're a magnet for mess. I've never seen anything like it.Lula to Stephanie

As the prana current, kundalini and different energies begin to move through you, you will feel yourself moving and rocking. Keep the body still, otherwise ...

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it ...

That's why I read, as a stranger,My being as if it were pages.Not knowing what will comeAnd forgetting what has passed,I note in the margin ...

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.

People need to know how their job contributes.

Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can ...

Destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

We were in the middle of nowhere, and in the back of beyond.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just ...

It is one of those big-smelling days, when people bring the outdoors in with them, the scent of rain on their sleeves, in their hair.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal ...

The rocketmen ran for cover. The missiles

That's what I love about film scoring. Every situation is new. Every show is a new adventure.

I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

No one has, or ever will, be able to experience or express your singular point of view, which is why it is so important, both ...

The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

How could I make anyone understand? He was still with me. He was the negative space.

As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated ...

What do you do when God's logic doesn't line up with yours? When the will of God doesn't add up? When you think you know ...

The mobile phone, the fax, emails. Call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with a chain of beacons?

One of the things that concerned me was the way the system operated: the wife who went out to work got a full personal allowance, ...

To do what we love we miss the ones we love. Long distance letters and phone calls and anything to make the distance disappear! That's ...

Percy! he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you've never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and ...

You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

What is the universal?The single case.What is the particular?Millions of cases.

As pilgrims we effectively slip into the role of our spiritual ancestress and run back and forth between the hills seven times. This symbolises our ...

That was a good day for me," Skulduggery said. "I didn't have to hit anyone. I didn't have to shoot anyone. I just sat around ...

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find ...

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

I suppose if you've always been wrapped in wool, you don't know it's wool.

No one will take my Elena from me. I'll destroy the world before I allow that to happen

Jack Sparrow: [after Will draws his sword] Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again.Will Turner: You didn't beat me. You ignored ...

For me, the brightest years at IronPort were without a doubt the darkest years at home.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

Compromise is the door through which deception enters.

It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I ...

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

As a young adult, I began to read widely in history, philosophy, and religion - including the Bible. I began to feel that a purely ...

I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

And To be or not to be, that is the question;Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous ...

She missed him. And she was scared, deep down, because she felt him pulling away from her, and even though he assured her he wasn't, ...

I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can ...

Without God's grace, we stumble in sin.

I don't want to portray myself as a hardman in management or anything like that.

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the ...

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the ...

Wine is a story that gives birth to stories, and man, a story-telling animal.

It's quite a discipline when we're in trouble to think of God and say, "I need some help."

If you love her, set her free. If she comes back, she's yours. If she doesn't ... Christ! Stubborn woman! Hunt her down, and bring ...

Belief and trust, twined together, can meet any danger. -Gwyneth pg 88

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. ...

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader ...

French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far as I could see, the sole purpose of landing ...

It is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

Piece of cake. Or toast, in your case. I'll stuff your toast, baby.

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

It all comes," said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big enough.

You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, ...

All I'm saying, Dad, is that I accept that I don't know. But I have faith that my Lord and Savior does, so I'm putting ...

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small ...

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our ...

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something ...

I'm afraid of; that one day, I will only see more and more vanities in the world.

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I ...

No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the ...

You can't wait forever for something, and then say it's too late when the time finally comes, even if every shred of incentive inside you ...

A past incident is not what agitates the mind; it is the amount of attention we give it that unsettles us.

I had such a mother as few are blest with; a woman of strong power, and firm resolve.

However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the ...

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

I was always a guy who wanted to be associated with a brand that meant something to me, something I was proud to be associated ...

I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ...

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Katya didn't know why she did it. Flirting with a volk krovi was just plain dangerous. It didn't matter how cute he was, you just ...

I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

He gestured at me. "That's Belly.""Belly?" she repeated."Yup. She's my girlfriend."I think I choked out loud.