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I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if ...

Omigod, you're gay? Isn't that awesome? Come be my friend, it'll be just like Glee!

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

A car is just a moving, giant handbag! You never have actually to carry groceries, or dry cleaning, or anything! You can have five pairs ...

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the ...

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

Know that every day we wake up is an opportunity to ride up, and be the best we can be.

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

In San Francisco, racism came at you with a smile.

And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus ... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment ...

Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall ...

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there ...

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your ...

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

Envy is an envious person and truth they don't like to wear

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke ...

We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.

I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all.

I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work ...

Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, ...

Saint Hellion is the awesomest band the world doth know.

Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don't fucking drink it.

I have learned from bitter experience how misleading appearances often are, and that a snake sometimes lies hidden under flowers.

The day never starts nor does it end, we just decide to call it a day.....

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and ...

I have never lived before ... Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

Things were always better than they are now. It's in the nature of things.

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.

When dreams died, the heart grew bitter.

Beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet

The BIG issue nowadays is that on TV and in magazines, the images we see, while they appear surreal, "really aren't surrealistic, because they're just ...

I think maybe Gladstone had it right. I think my father did. They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning ...

I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, ...

I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the ...

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that ...

They send their shout to the stars.[Lat., Clamorem ad sidera mittunt.]

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.

Let's shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think ...

They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice of ...

Well, that's just all kinds of creepy," Puck muttered at my side, giving the doll a look of alarm. "If you see any clowns, do ...

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies ...

My husband, Andrew Shue, is the co-founder of Do Something, and we both speak and present at awards ceremonies. It's absolutely amazing and humbling to ...

Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when ...

Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, ...

As I recall, Drew made me take him to see a voodoo priestess he found in the yellow pages that week because he said the ...

I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to ...

Monsieur Ibrahim: To find out if a country is rich or poor, look at the bins. If there are bins and no rubbish, it's rich. ...

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can ...

At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment.

'Battlefield' was one of those slow-building songs, the way 'Tattoo' was. It was kind of a word-of-mouth hit. The more people heard it, the more ...

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick ...

My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three or four days ...

She looked like a character from a video game. One of those improbably busty, impossibly well-armed superchicks who could do acrobatics and hit the kill ...

Learning to be present with an open heart for others is the best way to help them heal.

I'm a tomboy. I really love sports. I'm really looking forward to being the sniper gal, running around and shooting zombies. I find that really ...

You put the Set animal in your locker? Do you know how much strength that requires?""Yeah," I said. "I was there.

My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you ...

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

The specific areas of science that I have explored most over the years are subatomic physics, cosmology, and biology, including neuroscience and psychology.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is ...

Interest can turn into disgust when the person with whom your are romantically involved, and whose scent you find evocative, betrays you and then, with ...

Though the truth may travel a thousand miles and visit a hundred places, it will always find its way home.

You can't conquer everything in a day. Or even a week. Maybe not even a year. There's no way to work hard at grieving. You ...

The tyranny of the human face

I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out to dry there, like nobody could ever ...

Don't break me, okay?

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been ...

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and ...

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from ...

I'd probably sleep like an angel but dream like the Devil, if the images of Reed didn't leave my sinful mind.

V?""What?""I will die rather than hurt you."~Vutch moments~

It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough ...

We're hideously rich, Annabelle - and I've got three older brothers, all unmarried. Would you possibly consider one of them? If you like, I'll have ...

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

You doona hate me for not being able to return you?" He paused for emphasis. "Ever, Gwen. I can't return you ever.

What the wise acquire easily fools only acquire miraculously.

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the ...

Swordsman in the last three hundred years." "Maybe he'll go easy on me," I said. The camper snorted. Luke showed me thrusts

Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like ...

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Tell Ragnall," I told him, "that the Saxons of Mercia are coming. Tell him that his dead will number in the thousands. Tell him that ...

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

I have the deepest respect even for Pagan myths, still more for the myths in Holy Scripture.

The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.

From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.

Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, ...

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.