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Sean Connery, in Vyshny Volochyokin the rain on a drizzly solo trek, said, "forgetting my sweater has made me much wetter. I certainly do miss ...

I looked up at the stars that were really flowers and thought about vanillas who were really kinky folks waiting to be born

In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.

I am not a playwright. A playwright would take Antigone and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. ...

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.[Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.[Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees ...

I'm listening to Gogol Bordello, which is totally random, but I love him. Just finished the new Joan Didion book, Blue Nights, which I loved. ...

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was ...

For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out-perhaps especially when it doesn't work out-promises that here is the ...

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out ...

... he grabbed my hand again. That same warmth hit me, seeping into my skin. I bit my lip and forced myself not to relish ...

Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue - sharp and venomous - was enough to get ...

The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on ...

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, ...

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can ...

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the ...

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with ...

Red?" I asked. "I've decided I'm going to call you Red from now on." "All right, I'll bite - no pun intended. Why?" He snickered ...

Mr Vimes," said Mrs Winkings, "ve cannot help but notice that you still haf not employed any of our members in the Vatch ... "Say ...

Civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.

Everything in this town is retro, which accounts for the large supply of black vintage items in Accessories. The past is so much safer, because ...

Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan ...

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

People says it gets easier. People are stupid.-Vlad

Florida sea captains might place a pineapple at the front door of their house to let everyone know that they had returned from a sea ...

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there ...

I want to go after the pharmaceutical companies like Valeant, and Turns that are increasing prices without any regard to the impact on people's health.

There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others.

It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't ...

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or ...

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was ...

Love life and life will love you, love yourself and you shall feel loved.

How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May ...

My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science ...

You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm.""Voyons, do you think that is what ...

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

I think the most important recipe for a good date is just spending time with somebody and really connecting and feeling like the best version ...

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than ...

The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously! A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of his ...

Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.

Why would that woman shoot me? We had dinner reservations later!

Life can be a bitch. so grab her by the hair and fuck her whilst screaming and firing a gun into the air!

If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.

Pyrokinesis: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to generate or manipulate heat

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

There was an innocent piece of dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, when ...

Vilis still doesn't pass to me but I don't care. Where he comes from (Latvia) they burn black people into tar and make roads out ...

Is it broken? Seriously. I mean my vagina. Not the vibrator. The vibrator definitely had some kicking power left in it. I think that cocky, ...

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and ...

But he did decide vegetatively, as a bean when once tossed aside must decide if it ought to germinate or had better let things be.

There is no ache more Deadly than the striving to be oneself. - Yevgeniy Vinokurov

The first 'Half-Life' movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I ...

In Sparta , paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so ...

I maintain my conviction that there are NO pyramids at Visoko, Bosnia. Rather, all the so-called pyramids are the result of natural geological processes and ...

Trying to understand her teenage daughter's behavior was like trying to listen to a recording of a symphony whose volume vacillated unpredictably from barely audible ...

We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we ...

I think you're very nice. I think twinkle's a nice word. So's viridian. I met a lady once who had an imaginary fish.

Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnificationcrude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification ...

The world is a great gymnasium where we came to make ourselves strong.

I turned right onto the A410 which went north with suspiciously Roman straightness toward Aymestrey, which is less a village than a diorama of the ...

To have to combat one's instincts - that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.

Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes vour blood purer, your muscles stronger, ...

Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its ...

When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual ...

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like ...

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie ...

While we as members of the Coalition strongly support free speech, it is not unlimited free speech. People aren't free to vilify others on the ...

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise ...

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county ...

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands ...

I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'

If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence ...

I had a great fashion season in September so I told my agent that I would really like to walk the 2015 Victoria's Secret fashion ...

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

The past is the Jabberwock. Forget not the fallen, but beware the jaws and claws. With your vorpal blade going snicker-snack, kill the fucker, as ...

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

We Venusians are sturdier than that. One can't even become part of the Protectorate until we've survived, naked and unarmed, in the harshest jungles of ...

The Agile Project Management principles and framework encourage learning and adapting as an integral part of delivering value to customers.

Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

Spear and magic helmet," I said in my best Elmer Fudd voice. "Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting vampires.

I believe that our Vuse, the digital vaping cigarette, is a game-changing product, and I believe that it satisfies smokers significantly better than anything that ...

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.

For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, ...

Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)