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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.
TV drama - not always, but on the whole - were pretty appalling and very secondary, too. No one expected it to be like watching ...
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know ...
You can always live extraordinary live.You are born to reach your full potential.The only limit is yourself.
Strangely, the job description did not specify that as a requirement.
Game changers will, most of the time, throw you off your game.
Complete it-you cannot sell an unfinished book.
A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our ...
Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113
Sometimes we don't appreciate Prayer until we have to go through something!
Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear.""Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?""I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter ...
It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.
I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.
I put projects together. I put people together.
The beacon is empty. There is no light. -Eleazar Wentzel (Weeping Well, Vol. 1)
By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. ...
Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ...
I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in ...
Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; ...
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.
Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them. She ...
Give me wonder, baby.Flash.Give me amazement.Flash.
I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I ...
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
Not all gay men send me penis pictures. But no straight men do. And to date, no woman has sent me a picture of her ...
Tomorrows feel like a limitless resource.
Plato may have denied the existence of ideal forms in this world, but Plato never saw a Viking ship. (Scientific American, February, 1998)
Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some ...
If you want to bring change to any field, beat away at a problem until you solve it.
One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!
Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain ...
As the disclaimer a few pages back highlights, I am not a doctor. But let me ask you this: How helpful has your doctor been?
I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.
You've had his dick in your hand and your tongue in his mouth and you can't sit down and eat a bowl of cereal with ...
For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in ...
I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go ...
Jerking off the universe is perhaps what all philosophy, all abstract thought is about: an intense, and not very sociable pleasure, which has to be ...
I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.
Write what you're thinking. Write one fucking word, and that will be good enough for now.
And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of ...
To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.
But when you know for sure that your separate ego is a fiction, you actually feel yourself as the whole process and pattern of life. ...
Everybody funny, now you funny too.
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on ...
I'm mainstream. Always have been.
When you learn, teach," she said frequently. "When you get, give.
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
And I grin back at him, while the last rays of sunlight spark along his face.
The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.
Maybe I shouldn't have had breakfast at Denny's.
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.
...Your love is evident,' she says. 'But, darling, sometimes the ballet does not love us back.
The Global Financial Crisis (2008-?); it is not a matter of noblesse oblige as of vitesse oblige.
After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!
Art transcends politics this weekend.
The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself.
I'm somewhat of a raptivist but I wasn't attempting to make a socio-political statement as much as I was attempting to voice for the voiceless ...
Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.
He could as little escape her as the cause can escape the effect.
Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.
He was my favorite senator ... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.
Human beings are nothing but intellectually organized closely interconnected interestingly and independently functioning trillions of atoms. We manipulate these atoms by our thoughts. At the ...
When one's eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.
Buenos Aires is less than an hour's drive from the ranch, and in the evening, we might meet friends for dinner there. I get recognised ...
What others think about you is none of your business.
What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
He was probably stud duck at the Rotary Club cookouts. I could have taken him while whistling the Michigan fight song and balancing a seal ...
I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
You can't have living without dying.
The position you hold and the work you are now doing.
Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. ...
There is no virtue if there is no immortality.
Life by day and Death by night.So,where do you belong?
For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit ...
When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple ...
And then it all came rushing back; that's when I realized I'll never stop having a thing for you.
Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.
There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.
The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to ...
I'm just waiting for the miracle to come
And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I'm going to cause you quite a lot of pain.
Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.
I'm a minimalist. I like things to look very clean, I like clean lines. I like everything to be tidy and have space.
I would like to do more in appreciating the mindset of the child. Maybe it has something to do with taking ourselves very seriously and ...
It's judgement day. I'm nervous. My films are finally being released!
Dr. Seuss provided ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another ...
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is ...
Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.
I'm learning geography is about lossand so I keep moving