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Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love ...
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.
He couldn't read any more of Velvette's stories. This was too intimate. She spills her soul by stitching words so splendidly, even ragged threads are ...
I was always doodling house sketches.
Screw the Silent Brothers.""No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky.""Isabelle!
He caught hold of Tom's leg - as well as he could, it was thick as a young tree-trunk - but he was sent spinning ...
In my spare time I like to stare at shit. I mean, not literally. I like to stare at the TV, or the Internet, or ...
The majority of my work is about preparation.
One would think after all the disappointment life offers us unfortunate few we would give up the trifles connected with hope, feeling, belief and optimism ...
People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.
Commitment is a line you must cross ... it is the difference between dreaming and doing.
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the ...
Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how ...
This power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of ...
The future is the result of actions, and actions are the result of behavior, and behavior is the result of prediction.
My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a ...
And that, she thought as he left her, summed up the miracle of her life. She had a home with him, and he'd be there.
Insofar as a purely transient construction of flesh and blood can remember (or foretell) what it is to be stone, Lucy understood the mountain's wish ...
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than ...
Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.
Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're ...
And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of ...
TV dramas function as vehicles for remodeling female subjects for the new social order - in other words, as an agent for change.
For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has ...
The most pleasant surprise is to get lost in the beauty of life.
This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.
The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.
Good and evil," Nick said. "Yin and yang. Male and female. Life and death. The dualities that make us human. As though our lives play ...
I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same ...
A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.
Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of moments where you ...
I always wear my hat backwards. That way, people can see my face.
I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically ...
There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by ...
If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is ...
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a ...
I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out ...
Victoria was an innocent country gentlewoman who spent her time reading, teaching the local children, painting, gathering armfuls of heather in the meadow. Vivien, by ...
Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high ...
I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
But as long as negativity is there, use it. Use it as a kind of signal that reminds you to be more present.
If many good things have not happened in your life, God is not to be blamed
Life is a bowl of cherries just make sure you spit out the pits
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
Even when the thing I want most is right in front of me ... I keep thinking about how I'll just wind up losing it ...
It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.
I box every day when I'm in New York.
Every Fey warrior and shei'dalin born in the Fading Lands learns very early in life that, like it or not - fair or not - ...
That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.
While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, ...
There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment
What I cannot love, I overlook.
I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law ... the United States must institute ...
If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go, this is great ...
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
Why should his sexual preference preclude his being voted into Hall of Fame?""You don't know much about baseball, do you, doc?
We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the ...
One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.
Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.
No one ever outgrows the need for a mother's love.
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and ...
Sometimes I think I know her. This is not one of those times. This is not 3:33.
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of ...
That in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with ...
Don't let those wicked men win, don't let them destroy you!
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of ...
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there ...
Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world
Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount ...
Sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth,
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the ...
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.
One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at ...
I killed someone. She
There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to ...
As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect ...
Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.
The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.
The grace of what makes him different, is what enables him to "stand up.
The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.
I'm too hot to handle; poor bitch needs to be treated for burns!
The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a ...
Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, ...
Nothing like knowing your bestie was all hooked up with some hottie.
To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the ...
Example is leadership.
Liberty, not government, is the world's most powerful
All we'll ever need is within each other," Serena said, her voice barely more than a whisper. "Even when we have our child, it will ...
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows ...
From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.