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I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
I'm just not very interested in decoration.
As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different ...
Some people, no, you're never going to change their opinions. It doesn't mean you have to accept it. If they're bold enough to stare or ...
When I was 14, I saw 'Waiting for Godot.' It's one of those plays that if it's done badly is absolutely dire and can put ...
It's our job to put a good product out there, and fans will come. If they see a good product, a good style, fans will ...
Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements ...
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
We licked batteries to feel a metallic jolt on the tongue, rumored to be one-eighteenth of an orgasm.
We humans are a technic species. Our technology, the pace of our technological advance, is a part of us, a part of everything we do.
You bring a little bit of yourself into every character you play. We're multifaceted creatures.
I don't read the papers or watch TV.
Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism ...
The day you make them all is the day you stop improving. - Alleras
Perhaps there are twin versions of us all somewhere in another universe, living out the destinies of which we've been robbed.
...You're my princess," I tell her, hopping up onto the bed, scooping her up and laying back. Her knees come to rest on either side ...
As the sun rose slowly above the eastern horizon, the caps of the great mountains lit up one after the other, like lamps at a ...
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
I don't have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a ...
Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is ...
If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that ...
It's like taking an entire life and finding what's important within it and writing about that, that essential moment of experience.
War doesn't end war any more than a heroin fix ends a heroin addiction.
Look for the silver lining in every cloud and those revelations will create the thread to weave the fabric of a renewed and joyous life.
Asians don't use the oven for anything but holding Jordans.
Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.
However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.
Sorry, but looks like I'm dead. *Grin*
Thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious.
The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of ...
You know they ain't bad people. They're just uneducated, unsophisticated, untraveled, immoral, and uncivilized. Plus stupid." -The Missing
Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was ...
I walk down the center of the street in our old neighborhood. I recognize the cracked building with the graffiti of an angel that has ...
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in ...
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and ...
If you are in a relationship, stop trying to figure out who wears the pants between the two of you. Relationships work best when both ...
I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass jar!) and instantly ...
Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point ...
You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams.
But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the ...
Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.
There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.
Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same ...
Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God's character is unchanging, the ways of God ...
I know I'm just an accessory to him, but what he doesn't realize is he's just a handbag to me, too.
Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.
We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions ...
Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking ...
Magical morning lights, dreamy sky,Smiling flowers letting us know summer is opening her eyes
Not that folks disliked me or that I ever went around being mean, but folks never did get close to me and it was most ...
I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am ...
My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind ...
Who are you and why are you here?''I'm here to kill you.''Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.
As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai
Why worry about things you have no control over?
Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer
Is this useful?" It's a simple, elegant corrective to my "price of security" motto. It's okay to worry, plot, and plan, he's saying - but ...
Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he left behind? An ...
You should never look at the cup or glass as being half empty; see it as being half empty, then you will have mastered the ...
Truth is not always about pragmatic problem solving and making things "work," but about reconciling contradictions. Just because something might have some dire effects does ...
Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who ...
The antonym of "forgetting" is not "remembering", but justice.
The only people who still have all the answers are those who have never been faced with the questions.
I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a ...
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
If you want the Cinderella moments then you have to believe in magick.
In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. ...
I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully ...
It is well known that in exchange for visionary powers, artists often suffer with extreme sensitivity and violent changeability of temperament. A philosophical crisis, or ...
Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it ...
A week after Jacque and Fane's ceremony, Decebel had gotten in his Hummer and, without looking back, driven away from the pack mansion. And 62 ...
There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the ...
A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.
A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down ...
The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?
The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.
Wolf wondered how long Marc would need to rest there. Then he wondered how long Marc would rest there. Wolf suspected the two were different ...
Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.
Only a genius can overlook the chaos
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two ...
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
Call Audi. I may need the A3 sooner than I thought." "It's ready, Mr. Grey." "Oh. Good.
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The ...
Fritz giggled. He's the only man I've ever known who could giggle without giving you doubts about his fundamentals.
He kissed him, taking his time with it, enjoying the last moments of anticipation before he reached between them and guided himself into Zane. He ...
An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.
What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they're small and to be held by them once they've grown tall. It's empty arms ...
I grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;
Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.
The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working ...
At home, when I'm not pitching, I'll sit and sign autographs for the kids. I've always done that and I'll continue to do it. That's ...
Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and ...
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming ...
You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't ...
Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out ...
It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at ...