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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a ...

My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in ...

Volgar birdmen, hear my cry, Jeru's burning, you will die. Close your wings and bow your heads, Every living birdman, dead.

I knew I was going to be a cellular biologist whose research would focus on scrutinizing every nuance of the cell's ultrastructure to gain insights ...

I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if ...

I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance veterinary medicine for ...

Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the ...

I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a ...

I think we can be very narrow-minded in this country; you see something that someone's done and immediately want them to do the same thing ...

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet.""Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115

What now?" Plagueis asked the moment Palpatine broke the connection. Sidious shook his head in disbelief. "Valorum somehow managed to persuade the Council to send ...

The viol, the violet, and the vine. Resignedly beneath the sky

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa

Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe ...

If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography either and you ...

Interestingly, vinifera is native to the same ara of southwestern Russia as the original Indo-European peoples, whose prehistoric migrations carried the Indo-European language and the ...

Lonnie smiled and nodded as Herbert repocketed the cutter and produced a chopped-down, brass Zippo lighter, the one that he had carried in the seventies ...

People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.

I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out ...

Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater men, and what ...

I have a confession to make.I hate voir dire.I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine.

My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ...

The sky which had started out with such verve and spirit in the morning was beginning to lose its concentration and slip back into its ...

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

I happen to have a certain fondness for existingsoda wouldn't have that lovely fizzy feeling if you were dead. Think of all the things you ...

As a comedian, especially one that works as much as I do, there is a lot of sacrifice. People don't see that I'm away from ...

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for ...

When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be ...

Just to see if I liked vlogging, I uploaded a video of my sister and I cleaning up a river in a canoe for Earth ...

According to Cecilia, Valdivia's star rose when he met me and began to decline when he left me behind, a frightening theory because I do ...

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start ...

Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace.

He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word postmodernist.

And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on ...

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

Oh man, the Vengaboys are my guilty pleasure.

I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say ...

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever ...

I will admit to fucking a zucchini when I was in high school. For years I thought I was a vegesexual.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall ...

Family is who you survive with when you need to survive - even if you do not like them.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of ...

The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm sick of this poem, you probably are too.

A bored Gwenvael is an entire towndestroyed accidently.

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's ...

Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although ...

The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the ...

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

Michael Varus drew his sword. 'My father is Janus, the god of two faces. I am used to seeing through masks and deceptions.

A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, ...

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

He felt himself hopelessly outnumbered.

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

If there is a record I don't have, I haven't heard it yet. My collection is always growing, but I can't really play it anywhere ...

True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not ...

Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna ...

The Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo makes a similar point to Rorty: "We don't reach agreement when we have discovered the truth," he observes; "we say ...

What gets me, Varinka, is not really the lack of money but all those little troubles life is full of, all whispering, all those jeers ...

Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do ...

If you give pain to someone out there, you will start to feel the pain within you! Such is the science of the Vitraags [the ...

Fact. Of course, she always went and spoiled the appeal by opening her mouth. In his humble experience, the world had yet to produce a ...

There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with ...

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day ...

The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. ...

Some things, however, should happen in the correct order. Shoes go on after socks. Peanut butter is applied after the bread comes out of the ...

'You like jealousy. You like knowing people want you.' He wasn't talking about sex, and my heart slowed a little. 'Is it not natural to ...

Valda said that if you change your residence every six months you can legally free your children from compulsory education.

We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction ...

If the stillness is VolcanicIn the human faceWhen upon a pain TitanicFeatures keep their place-If at length the smoldering anguishWill not overcome-And the palpitating VinyardIn ...

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

I enjoyed retirement the right way ... linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

I always find the greatest help I receive is from people who have been where I have been, but now they're no longer there.

Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: 'No; but you see it doesn't ...

I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture ...

I wanted to get out, Vyme, to keep going and not be trapped, to be free ... only I was cruel. I had the chance ...

VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit ...

Obama is a fine, very impressive person. He really is. Unfortunately, everything that he is doing in economics is exactly wrong. He is a crappy ...

I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law ...

The smallpox vaccination was developed in the Ottoman Empire. The vaccine subsequently made its way to England through the wife of an English ambassador who ...

At the sight of a Sanza brother offering cards, every guard in the room took a step back; some of them visibly struggled with the ...

Did you know - and studies prove this - that 98 percent of all the Visine in this country runs down the side of people's ...

The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the ...

You are! There ain't no Thirteenth! Ain't naught but the Twelve, that's truth! Yeah, I been to Verrar a couple times, met up with lads ...

Minutes before getting up from the bed. By then, she

My God, thank you for bringing her. It's like a trip into the past. Hannah looks just like her. My sweet little Terri." And Vanni ...

Be honest, Do I give off a vibe that says 'No, handsome stud, I don't want you to make a pass at me,' while at ...

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate ...

Leaning in, he kisses her on the cheek. Like an old acquaintance, she thinks. As though there had never been any passion, nor love, nor ...