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I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society"."If society were really decent, he would have been
I wanted to go home to the safety of my bed and to my stuffed animals and to my people I'd known my whole life. ...
This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when ...
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it wasprobably worth it
Vampire Diaries instead of Supernatural?(Bad choice.)
Harry could not stand this, he could not stand being Harry anymore. . . . He had never felt more trapped inside his own head ...
There were entire days where I did nothing but cry; others where I felt like I'd swallowed a lead plate; some more where I worked ...
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
She was the woman in the table.
As we patiently follow the Savior, He will bless us beyond our own capacity to become what He wants us to be.
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, ...
Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.
Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, ...
O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.
There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to ...
Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.
They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.
An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.
I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere
I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've ...
In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
Of all Mother's punishments, I hated the gas chamber game the most. Towards
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it's just words.
The English summer is never far away; it's just above the clouds.
I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules.
America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.
I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl.
No, we will not tell our botany team to go fuck themslves.
Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The ...
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but ...
He had even brought drinks for us. Lemonade. Because we were eleven.
She had very little money, but she wasn't afraid-there was only one place to go, and that was up.
You grow up feeling the weight of blood, of family. There's no forsaking kin. But you can't help when kin forsakes you or when strangers ...
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all ...
As we embrace our passions and delve into the mystery of life, we unite with the majestic complexity of nature; and if we follow the ...
He reaches me and hold the back of my head, his lips brushing my ear. 'No restraints. One-hundred-and-fifty miles per hour. You and me, sweetheart.
Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white?
Snowmageddon.Dirty glacial clouds hammered the city's anvil. On the District of Columbia's northwestern edge, gusts of snow rolled across the Park Road Bridge like volcanic ...
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
Growing up, coming to terms with, and living through the complications of Diabetes.
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.
I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.
This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take ...
Yeah I have an attitude. You weren't subjected to what I was subjected to, so don't try to tell me how I am.
Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use ...
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
She influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future. While he was content with the present moment, not caring to know ...
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made ...
If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.
Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes
I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I ...
One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort ...
I'm like a cat. I swear I havenine lives
About the only valid definition (of science fiction) that I'm willing to accept is this: all of modern, mainstream, and realistic fiction is simply a ...
It is clear that Job's friends focused only on God's justice; however, they failed to capture His entire nature. It
It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn ...
It should not always be about money but actually what brings you happiness and moves your soul
We were, all of us, prisoners of our character, unable to alter our true inner natures. When we said we had changed, what had only ...
Although the garment was beautifully designed and well made, the color, a dark velvet that captured the intense tones of a ripe plum or black ...
When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and ...
How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully.
Shigri boy lost his marbles in the end but the plane General Zia is about to board has enough VX gas on it to wipe ...
Writer's block is just another name for fear.
Don't you hate when you're having fun and you know you won't be able to appreciate the details until it's days later and you ache ...
I would rather stop too soon than too late.
Myth: Bernanke Fed is committed to stimulus until a recovery occurs. Fact: The current monetary policy assures further capital destruction
Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, ...
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized ...
Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.
I don't know if I even believe in that anymore. The right guy. The perfect guy. The one. I've lost faith in "the".How do you ...
You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.
In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since ...
I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 ...
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning ...
The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as ...
With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
I don't care about proving things to people. I'm proving things to myself.
Girls of all kinds can be beautiful ...
I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during ...
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to ...
I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you ...
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the ...
My future is what I make it, and my past is what made me!!!
He's got plans with the girlfriend." Gage rolled his eyes. "You can say her name, man. She's not Voldemort, you know.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.
To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing ...
The value of the old liberal education was not that it made men "well-rounded," like a ball bearing, but that it gave them the freedom ...
I think of myself as a fantasy writer.
I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
If the conflict in Lebanon continues, the risk of attacks will grow. This is why we must contribute to a joint (international) responsibility and help ...
Hunter would rather deal with an insane terrorist than an upset female.' (Hunter)
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you ...