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Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone ...

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

I'm too hot to care.

Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy,

Not for nothing that [Donald] Trump, who himself has had some high unfavorable ratings, distrusted by a significant amount of the population and even a ...

I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my father being French, ...

The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope ...

How is it possible to feel such a strong connection with somebody but miss the most vital piece of information about him?

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I am Birgitte Silverbow," Birgitte announced, as if to dispel doubt. "The Horn of Valere has sounded, calling all to the Last Battle. The heroes ...

Vialine counted the points off on her small fingers. "So quickness to strike, and cleverness, and aggression without conscience, honor or pity."Thorn held up her ...

There I find an Ark torn asunder and a Vicegerent over Yonder

What is love anyway? From my new vantage point, I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomeration of need, desperation, fear of ...

What this means is that most non-vegans can only imagine what it would be like for them to be vegan, whereas the vegan can actually ...

Vigilantes who executed some of the most vicious and ignoble acts of lawless brutality in U.S. history nevertheless considered those very acts to be the ...

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.

It was five, but it could have been six, seven or eight goals, in my opinion.

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

That, like an eagle in a dovecote, IFluttered your Volscians in Corioles.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

Commitment to an idea that has the power to transform you personally in any way is a vision worth nurturing. The bottom line is,you need ...

I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack ...

I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my sculptor friends: they ...

I'm not a hugger. People make fun of me. It's something that I have a hard time with. If someone hugs me, I hold my ...

Your wealth or status doesn't make you. Your kindness and character does.

There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.

But when I gave bl0w jobs to my ex, I secretly hated it. What's pleasant about sucking on a stiff, veiny appendage that spurts pee ...

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of ...

Everything I have is dirty, but I'm sure I can figure something. Maybe I can make a dress out of a garbage bag. Lady Gaga ...

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself ...

First, I look at history the way I look at evolution. Some things die out for a good reason, and should be left dead. I ...

In order to understand what happened, we'll use words in the way that they exist: as drawers of distinction between ideas.

The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 ...

We the People - shelling the Vietcong

My imagination plus Vibrizzio is not only equal to but also greater than a real man. Why should I settle for second best?

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.[Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is ...

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and ...

Love in his hands has become a weapon for hurting.

Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, ...

We like people who are similar to us. This fact seems to hold true whether the similarity is in the area of opinions, personality traits, ...

I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People ...

It's much easier to give up, than to put a Fight, but fighters are only people that win.

Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is ...

Vadier (on Danton): "We'll clean up the rest of them, and leave that great stuffed turbot till the end."Danton (on Vadier): "Vadier? I'll eat his ...

One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your ...

In ten Muslim countries you can get the death penalty just for being gay. If they were chopping the heads off of gay people in ...

She took them off when she saw Georgie.Hello, Victoria, did you come to tell me a secret?

How strange to have a sister, Valarie thought. Someone you might have been.

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

Loafe with me on the grass - loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want - not custom or ...

In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service ...

Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a dysfunctional ...

The world is not a 'thing' (eternal element). It is a wrong belief (vikalp) of the Soul.

Hang on. This Lord Voldything's back you say? ... and now he's sending dismembers after you? ... I see. Well that settles it, YOU CAN ...

The period 1924 to 1929 was spent studying chemistry at the Czech Institute of Technology in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The supervisor of my thesis was Professor ...

If I'm not going out, my go-to outfit is some comfortable pants, Vans, and a fitted tee. But if I'm going out, definitely some Diesel ...

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun ... then my work here is done.

Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysis of any underlying economic value. The economics ...

I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one.

She gritted her teeth. She was here with Sebastian, on her way to see a powerful warlock, and mentally she was maundering on about the ...

I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, ...

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants ...

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in ...

Embrace, nurture, love and celebrate the child in self and others; because being child is being a future.

This afternoon it rains as never before; and Idon't feel like staying alive, heart. This afternoon is pleasant. Why shouldn't it be?It is wearing grace ...

Sudenly a gothic old man flu in on his broomstick. He had lung black hair and a looong black bread. He wus werring a blak ...

Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness ...

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than ...

Come in the evening, or coming in the morning/Come when you're looked for, or come without warning/Kisses and welcomes you'll find here before you/And the ...

She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced ...

We human beings are at once delicate and intricate and temporal like the tulips in an April field and sturdy, resilient and enduring as Mt. ...

Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What ...

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.[Lat., HoraeMomento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even ...

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played ...

His arms wrapped around my waist from behind and he kissed my neck again, closer to the wound this time. My pulse accelerated. I wanted ...

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job ...

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, ...

Reverence for life, veneratio vitae, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final ...

Did you know Radha still waits, impatient for you, in Vrindavana? Like a wraith beneath the trees, since you didn't say farewell.

A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims ...

No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore ...

Somewhere down the line, I realised that dairy products were giving me acidity, so now I am a vegan.

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,.

When we use power to cause someone else not to succeed so that we can succeed, it slows our vibratory frequency. It slows us down. ...

The pirates wanted my life, Vargen wanted my country, and my regents wanted to paint rainbows over reality and claim all was well.

I heard through the Verdie grapevine yesterday that the sexy cowboy who lives in this house likes gingersnaps.""Sexy?" One dark eyebrow shot up. "That's according ...

Valerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the church's coffers. It ...

Flow-cycled ventilators

Life has ups and downs, provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build ...