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Birmingham City Council was playing third time lucky with the design of the city's celebrated Victoria Square ...
There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.
Daemon: Ever hear the saying you catch more lions with honey than vinegar?Katy: I think it's 'catch more bees' and not lions.Daemon: Whatever.
I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that ...
Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids ...
I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my ...
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.
The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.
When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
I think digital. I think digital and I was terrified about it for a long time. But I think digital because it gives so much ...
Nature had given me a square jaw, a cleft chin, a dark mane, eyes that could bring a vestal virgin to her knees and a ...
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide ...
Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence ...
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to ...
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis ...
I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native ...
The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could ...
If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war ...
A good storyteller minces words to entertain or inspire the audience. The politicians and religious leaders do much the same, but for a different purpose ...
We didn't believe in tomorrow. We we couldn't forget what had happened yesterday.
Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.
While being the husband of uberstylist Rachel Zoe lets me waltz confidently into fashion shows with Rachel by my side, the VIP treatment usually stops ...
A young mind leads to a young body.
You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. ...
Who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned ...
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, ...
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it."- Vronksy {Anna Karenina}
Im not angry. I have never been angry in my entire life. The only thing that makes me angry is people videorecording me. Making me ...
When you feel deep change in your heart, you must understand that there is a lack of an old and righteous company.
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we ...
So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds ...
For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to ...
When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.
The job is the job, and I have no choice but to get it done. Bitching about it will only distract me, and let's be ...
Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow ...
Their presence and attitude remind me of Raffe. He would fit in. It's easy to visualize him sitting in the booth with that group, drinking ...
Coorg had always been a principality under powerful dynasties of Karnataka like the Kadambas, Chalukyas, Gangas, Cholas, Rashtrakutas, and the Vijayanagar Empire.
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living ...
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, ...
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: ...
Callers who even more unconsciously blemish-scanned or nostril-explored looked up to find horrified expressions on the video-faces at the other end. All of which resulted ...
Ramakrishna says, "One who has merely heard of fire has ajnana, ignorance. One who has seen fire has jnana. But one who has actually built ...
If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all ...
My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.
Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.[Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.
Alis volat propiss. (She flies with her own wings.)
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very ...
I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I ...
On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.
Heard Ori Kam and was deeply impressed with his achievements as a violist. His technical and interpretive skills are truly unique. I see a great ...
Butch clapped V on the thigh, then stood up, as if he knew exactly what V was thinking. "Listen, I don't want you to feel ...
I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to ...
Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.
SOME OF THE HARDEST parts of parenting never change - like sleep deprivation, which, according to researchers at Queen's University in Ontario, can in some ...
Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me
Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the ...
Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall.
The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
That's who we were, wartorn meadows on the verge of new growth.
The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but ...
The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your ...
I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.
It is war's prize to take all vantages;And ten to one is no impeach of valor.
Don't get me wrong - I was not a Nazi, and in my eyes Hitler seemed like some absurd character in an operetta. But, it ...
Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
Every Vada-Pav is a potential burger
I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record ...
There is no "I" for a person, for a beehive, for a corporation, for an animal, for a nation, for any living thing. The "I" ...
When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.
The Mexican utopia has consisted of enjoying your fifteen minutes of impunity.
...rich geometric experiences are the most important factor in the development of children's spatial thinking and reasoning.
Knowledge is power ... knowled ge is safety ... knowle dge is happiness.
Who sees the death blinds the death. (Qui voit la mort - Aveugle la mort)
Braccas meas vescimini!I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!'-Percy Jackson
I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.
The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United ...
It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at ...
What the hell's wrong with mimosas?' Aphrodite was saying. 'Orange juice is for breakfast.''What about the champagne part? That's alcohol,' Stevie Rae said.'It's pink Veuve ...
I do believe everyone in Fairyland-Below is royalty!" September exclaimed. "Queens and Princes and Vicereines and Emperors - it's like visiting Europe!
What is that which cannot be contained by volume,for it has neither height, nor breadth, nor length, nor width? It constantly weighs on us, but ...
I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.
Whether it's Vessalius, or Nightray, there's no difference! I just want to be friends with you!
Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way.""I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.
Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together.
Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a ...
We'd all met in the office and told the vice principal - who, like all vice principals, is genetically Nazi - what we'd seen. He
When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech ...
Not every wall needs a ceiling
It is a very wide range of people that we get for the show.
Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.
The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you," says God.
Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like ...
So be steadfast in your commitment to Christ, and be a real VIP - a person with vision, integrity, and God's presence.
The dog leash was still tied tight around the oak tree in the back, stretched worn and limp across the green grass as if trying ...
When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit, in ...