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I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
From Love Under a Dark Sky: In the universe vastWe share a simple feastAmong creatures equally earthbound.Let us raise our hearts in gratitude,Our eyes in ...
But even the innocent blow of a child can be painful, possibly more so than that of an adult since its victim cannot bring himself ...
My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, ...
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility ...
Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.
Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You
I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.
No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind
I drank in his smell, I'd missed him so much more than I'd realised. Despite dreaming of him every night, besides my secret habit of ...
A spark of divinity ignited a flame of fire within our spirit, our soul and our hearts.
So as a founder, you have an authenticity and a human factor that is really special and that gives an enormous amount of energy and ...
The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high ...
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of thoseShakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose!All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see's been dubbed by [Us] ...
The first rule of self control is never to put yourself in a position where you have to practice self control
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 ...
I'll always be a Backstreet Boy.
By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.
I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.
Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on about whether or ...
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would ...
Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one ...
Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison ...
[Donald Trump] suggestions are not only offensive but, in certain cases, dangerous and sometimes even illegal, like his dismissal of the laws of the United ...
You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be ...
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
If we hadn't broken every single WHO rule many times over, we would never have defeated samllpox. Never. - Arita, leader of smallpox eradication effort
We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color ...
I still use a lot of cut-ups, I physically cut-up pieces of paper and stick them all together on another piece of paper then I'll ...
We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.
Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity.
Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife?
The argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But ...
Arrogance can be deadly." The corners of his mouth crept up. "But you didn't hear me say that.
The taxi was a V-6. Good, I'd probably need all of that. I clicked off the radio and AC to funnel extra power.
Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do.
But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.
The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a ...
Or less in bits. Constance, his wife, was then twenty-three years old,
I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear myself.
It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic.
The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.
People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but ...
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not ...
Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock n' roll.
I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.
And she smiles and she utters unearthly things and she utters not in any known language, in stars and pain, pulque she says I am ...
The sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright.
We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry ...
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
I think printed fiction is what women read.
Marshall Shafter ... kept pasted in his desk drawer a piece of paper he looked at from time to time to remind himself of something. ...
Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show ...
I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come.
When thought and action are combined, the results are powerful-among the most powerful forces on earth. The combination of successful communication-the sharing of thoughts-and physical ...
There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the ...
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and ...
I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.
Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
You work at a job, and you reach a certain level, and you're a little satisfied, and you keep going at it a little more, ...
She who depends on the kindness of others for her sole pleasures; shall forever be unfulfilled.
I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.
Behind it, still expanding, still radiating, still slowly dissolving in the system to which it had given its name, the unnumbered twinkling fragments of the ...
The distinction, therefore, between general names, and individual or singular names, is fundamental; and may be considered as the first grand division of names.
I have not seen a true grounds-up revolution from a bunch of companies getting together. It takes one company to put it together, then people ...
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses ...
Tolkien had sent him a poem called "Kortirion Among the Trees". Kortirion represented Warwick in the early stages of Tolkien's mythology, and was the chief ...
In a cold night, even if there is only one homeless living on the streets, this means that you are living in a God damn ...
On a reservation, Indian men who abandon their children are treated worse than white fathers who do the same thing. It's because white men have ...
The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.
Telimektar son of Tulkas is with those noble ones, and his face and weapons gleam as silver in the dark,
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my ...
It is actually difficult to edit life. Especially in regard to feelings. Not being open to anger or sadness usually means being unable to be ...
I think a creative life is the most marvelous life there is.
Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, ...
If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.
It's always important to have the blessing.
There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.
Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.
The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - ...
Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty ...
I'm not wearing this!" I shouted."Wear it or die," Mom shouted back.
I'm a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records - 'Funeral' being my favorite.
To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
If you don't get it right, what's the point?
I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.