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Educated: no. Stupid: yes.And when I say "stupid," I mean stupid fresh.

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here,Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

Zack was so hard it hurt.

Say thank you with words, not hugs. -- Bax to Brysen

I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ...

I thought it was love. I thought I'd die from how much I loved you.

Perhaps a heart was indeed like a piece of dry birchwood, and could only take fire and burn brightly once - that any fire that ...

David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology.

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring ...

Every time a new technology enables more choice, whether it's the VCR or the Internet, consumers clamor for it. Choice is simply what we want ...

We all make mistakes that torture us the whole of our lives. Unfortunately, fate doesn't always allow us a second chance. I

Things change, constantly, as they should. And with change comes the need for adaptation, for fresh thinking, and, sometimes, for even a total reboot - ...

Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s.

The PrisonerAll right,Go ahead!What's in a name?I guess I'll be locked intoAs much as I'm locked out of!

To sacrifice anything is of great honor. To sacrifice everything is of God.

I like the idea of men's tailoring on girls. It's very strong and sexy in a non-overt way.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that ...

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of ...

When preparing a presentation, it's never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you're focusing on the appearance of good delivery ...

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.

Visibility is a trap.

The more you know, the less you need.

If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life.

Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes ...

I don't care who you are, everybody and their Mother has to have a little bit of an ego, or they will chew you up ...

They were stupid, stupid people.

I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an ...

I'm talking about doing something good for mankind. Imagine how awesome everyone would feel if they knew all that holy stuff was real." -Gregori"Stuff? Four ...

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

My alter ego does not look in too great a mood today.

During times of persistent hardship is when the warrior learns the most about his fortitude.

Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!

Your shadow has been over me for my whole life.

Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business ...

Churches should emphasis eternal values.

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims ...

Cancer doesn't give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will.

You got potential, Kip.And you know what potential means? he replied.Ain't done nothing yet.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It's these simple acts that matter ...

Intelligence is not always the source of knowledge but love is.

It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they ...

Whatever is in your magnetic field is attracting to itself, and so the more love in your field, the more power you have to attract ...

I knew it was coming. That question. It was like he had a freaking daily quota to hit.

What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.

So did you use magic to make the hut, miss?""I didn't have to," said Tiffany. "The magic was already here.

Because being witness to all types of human experience is important to understanding the world, but also to understanding myself. To define what is important ...

I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

The songs we sing to each other are statements. An ongoing discussion in music notes.

He loves white cables. And white telephones. And white computer monitors with fruit on the back.

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called ...

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

Gandhi once said, "I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians." Well, I love America. But there are too many hateful Americans.

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems ...

Silence and patience are not merely cowardliness, its a symbol of strength.

I think an artist might feel the same way when they place a brush to a canvas." She looked down at the design. "Even if ...

This is a tremendous honor (winning the 2002 Roberto Clemente Award), to be considered in the same class as Roberto Clemente. He is a hero ...

UFO.... MIB???UFO = MIB??!?What now... please keep the silence!

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if ...

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare ...

I considered the concept of "oversharing", and what undersharing might be, and whether it was ever possible to settle on something in between.

Yama servants known as Shravan and Shravani.

If I die tomorrow, you aren't allowed to say my life was cut short at age 25. I did more in those years than most ...

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary ...

Maybe you need to save your dad-concerns for when I'm found drunk, or high - and - arrested because my secret Argentinean boyfriend, Ignacio, convinced ...

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from ...

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every ...

Clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

Judgment is a fickle minds product...A mind that doesn't have the courage to see beyond what it knows..Waste of Mind, Time and all else..of others ...

You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.

Put Jesus Christ in the driver's seat of your life and take your hands off the steering wheel.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

What torments people have to go through when they leave the safety of their homes to become embroiled in mad adventures.

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've ...

The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one ...

Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.

Be not exalted in the day of thy honour:

You wanted the man you wanted to bond with me.

If you haven't developed morals by the time you start reading erotica, it's probably too late.

You reap what you sow - not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens ...

He is holding a book.Inside the book is the Universe.

Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson famously defined "entrepreneurship" as "the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

Nothing - the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing. ...

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

Try to negotiate with yourself for success.

A lot of people want me to run for things, for a lot of high offices. The polls always show that I win any election ...

Sometimes luck put a man in the right place at the right time. Sometimes, a good friend. But more often than not, Daniel mused, it ...

Now my charms are all o'erthrown...

Life is not about how much money is spent trying to impress the opposite sex, it's about finding balance and respect.

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.