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I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a ...

Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside!

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

Son of a - Rora?" Blake slid out of the crater he'd just made in the wall. "Crap. What are you doing here?" He saw ...

Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is ...

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

Take this world from me, I don't need it anymore.I am finally free, my heart is spoken for.

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but ...

I wouldn't have gone if he'd made me. But it was different, deciding myself. It made staying too easy. It took the...the rebelliousness out of ...

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays ...

That's the funny thing about music. Part of the magic, I quess. Sometimes it replenishes me, like I'm feeding off its energy and it fills ...

You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love.

The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the ...

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

I wanted to change the world, now I hope the world doesn't change me.

Roses have thorns but are worth more than daises.

We're all broken in some way. So don't beat yourself up.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European ...

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished ...

Nice to meet ya," Popeye said. He sort of held his hand out. "Do we shake?" "Of course," Ronald said, enveloping the small man's hand ...

This strange disease of modern life,With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools ...

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule ...

What do you see when you touch me now?" Riff asked, his gaze searching Zed's face. Once again, Zed sensed that electric zing of sexual ...

But that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education ... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich ...

God, thank you for this cake and Finn's chain saw," Gabe says. "Are you happy?

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

That's all we need, another drunk author.

When you're playing to an audience that isn't your own, it's quite scary.

It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful.

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?"asked Jace."Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people ...

Only ugliness is obscene.

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

Fans believe they have a relationship with you, either through your TV character or, more reasonably, through the tweets you may have exchanged. In a ...

It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.

If you love her, set her free. If she comes back, she's yours. If she doesn't ... Christ! Stubborn woman! Hunt her down, and bring ...

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what ...

I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

As far as now I'm on 161 life!

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe ...

Thumbnail sketch of his life would include two main facts:

Well, I am terribly concerned for your health. One simply should not weigh so much at your age. Lady Maccon poked at a sagging carrot ...

It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It ...

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. ...

I'm sorry, Alabama fans. I'm from New York and didn't watch football growing up.

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

It is said to currently account for at least half and sometimes over 70 percent of all stock trades, which means that most trades are ...

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.

When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.

An album is a garden, not for showPlanted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong ...

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

Who can remember the pangs and sweetness of those early years? We remember our first real love no more clearly than the illusions that caused ...

There is a disconnect between policies and real picture of primary education in India

An expert was once a beginner. Success does not lie in the results but in efforts. Being the best is not that all important. Doing ...

It can't rain all the time - from The Crow

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

That was a lesson everyone (every human?) learned before puberty, not to let reality seem diminished by fiction. As the proverb went, It's bad enough ...

Whether we realize it or not, everything we do is an expression of either how alive our souls are or how much we have allowed ...

Every day is a test," Cisca replied soberly. "But we'll never learn new ways of doing things if we insist on telling everyone what they ...

A man with edges and shades concealing a fine heart

Rourke was the Grim Reaper with a hard-on.

Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to ...

I have seen my mugshot.

And I must borrow every changing shapeTo find expression ... dance, danceLike a dancing bear,Cry like a parrot, chatter like an ape.Let us take the ...

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ...

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of ...

You and Sven and Sven. You're my family. I like you and you like me and we all helped each other back there. So isn't ...

White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their ...

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with ...

My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'

Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us We do not need pity, nor do ...

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Thank you Jonah." He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't ...

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.

Why do yo keep doing this?""Because I've wanted to be with you for three years, okay? That's why.

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because ...

As far as I know, scientists have yet to discover the proper reaction to I'm sorry.

The church doesn't have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.

Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!

It's great to do commercial movies; they are fun. You're doing stunts, you are running around, there is a lot of money involved in the ...

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.