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I don't really wear perfume. I use Victoria's Secret sometimes. They have this Coconut Passion spray. But fragrances can give me a bit of a ...
The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with ...
What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, ...
Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'
Termagant!" he moaned after her. "Shrew! Harridan! All right, all right, you win, you, you ... uh ... virago, you spitfire ... " He rubbed ...
All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an unbroken ...
Believe something is impossible,' said his ancestor calmly, 'and you will surely fail. But believe in yourself and you can do anything.
And then it goes as with all anger attacks. They don't just consist of one anger, but of many. A long series of angers, flung ...
With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means ...
Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer ...
Que busca? Tal vez busca su destino. Tal vez su destino es buscar. ... what is he searching for? Perhaps he searches for his destiny. ...
Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
Vyshinsky: And your occupation?
Esse quam videri - "To be, rather than to seem (to be)
How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?
The world has found lenses on its nose without knowing whom to thank
Really the answers I get are idiotic. The entire correspondence of you and Robbie with me should be published. The best title would be Letters ...
If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come ...
See this?" Isa pulled something dark and oblong out of her purse. Chance's mouth twitched. "Turbo Vagisil?""No, it's a taser!
On the illusive "Monsieur Hortalez." When my friend Steven and I went looking for the building one afternoon, we came to the address at 47 ...
The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal.
Vede insieme l'uno e l'altro polo,Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto;E vedi, 'I veder nostro quanto e corto.(You see both poles at once, the ...
To give value to others, you have to begin by valuing yourself.
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the ...
In one moment, God feels the pain of the victims of unspeakable violence, and God feels the agonizing pain of seeing a beloved child executed ...
The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is ...
Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, ...
Harry just stared. 'I'm sorry,' Draco's mouth said, but his eyes said, 'I'm so tired, I don't care anymore.
Tell Liz,' I say, 'the mean girl totally got what she deserved in the end.
Understatement is overrated
Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said ...
The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.
Do I think Photoshop is being used excessively? Yes. I saw Madonna's Louis Vuitton ad and honestly, at first glance, I thought it was Gwen ...
The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of ...
Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own ...
Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body
As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber ...
I was wondering what kind of giant would come, but you're just some tail-coated Romeo.
I'm not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as ...
Because the Bible is a theological book, it is a book of wrestlings, not a book of answers. In each age the people have to ...
Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish ...
The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also ...
Vaclav has said goodnight to Lena every night since the night she went away. Out loud. In a whisper. [...] He filled the words with ...
It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.
The woman was Diana Vreeland, the high priestess of fashion and legendary fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue. Dana paused, eyes wide. ...
We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.
They lurk in the cold and dark.Hungry and,wicked,they wait for their one chance to devour the weak on Sorry Night.Then the vours feast on a ...
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
War is cinema, and cinema is war
That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, ...
Vade MecumI want the scissors to be sharpand the table perfectly levelwhen you cut me out of my lifeand paste me in that book you ...
De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.
EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to ...
If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed is ...
If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.
Desire has no particular object. It is a vector. Its object is before it, always to come. Desire vectorizes being toward the emergence of the ...
Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to ...
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple ...
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; ...
The sun was still out, wouldn't even start to set for an hour, but the early evening still had that "magic hour" feeling. The air ...
These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and
I began to see then that when the government enters business, the citizens of India get cheated. The greatest repercussion of the government entering into ...
A kindred spirit," said Vole, "is someone who understands the deepest dream of your heart.
Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to ...
I didn't get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation ('Can you ve'fy ...
Self worth cannot be verfied by others
Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.
When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to ...
If you are going outbeware of mangoesAnd all such beautifulsweet things.
I'd never criticize gay people for being gay. That would be the same thing as criticizing someone for having brown eyes, as far as I'm ...
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, ...
Further movements are not recommended," said Mr. Croup, helpfully. "Mister Vandemar might have a little accident with his old toad-sticker. Most accidents do occur in ...
How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what futility. It is ...
It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet ...
Personally, I like sex and I don't care what a man thinks of me as long as I get what I want from him which ...
It seemed Abe Vigoda's career was done until he was pronounced dead in print.
Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly
You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. ...
Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.
I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first ...
Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.
Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims.
Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.
I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of ...
When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big ...
It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability, [ ... ] This fact offers the ...
I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I ...
God's definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It's not about ...