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Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, ...

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.

A good lord must know his men.

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

The Night is young & full of rest I can't describe the way she's dress'd She'll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest ...

It stayed there because, honey, I've never stopped loving you. In my heart, you are my wife and always will be. ~Carlos & Maddie

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human ...

(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I'm writing about is me. It seems wiser to ...

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come ...

Auschwitz was a much safer place to be than Dresden or any other city of any size in Germany from 1943 onward.

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able ...

There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

I've felt the hate rise up in me ... Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves ... I wander out where you can't see ...

For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ...

Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one ...

People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external ...

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New ...

Maybe that's what love was walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.

Right then," Campbell began, his tone so civil it was offensive. "May I have your name for the record, Miss ... ?""Eliza Braun," Eliza sneered. ...

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so ...

Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...

If you have blank spots instead of stories for part of your life, then that would be a pretty serious thing I think.

It happened so fast the driver didn't have a chance to flinch. Leo grabbed his head and wrenched, twisting it sharply until it crunched. As ...

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story ... we feel like we need to stand up ...

Hope is a possibility.

A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.

If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers ...

Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that ...

I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.

Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in ... well, in ...

Something has worked in the past, until - well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to ...

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

The end is not near. The end is not here. What the world is experiencing is not the end

I wish I could tell my parents, If you want to help me, help me die.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

You don't miss your water until your well runs dry.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. ...

It had been a while since he'd had a woman and that was Emma's fault too. Ever since she'd walked into his office in mid-June, ...

If you want to see my hands, all you have to do is ask.

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no ...

I got plans for you, and they all involve my cock." Jake Thompson

'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs ...

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can ...

I raise my glass to the Awful Truth, Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth,Except to say it isn't worth a dime,And the ...

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other ...

Sand choked the stainless steel gutters of concentric streets below dark skies full of stars like beds of cold jewels. And through it all, a ...

Balance in impossible; memories are better. (TILT-7 Solutions To Be A Guilt-free Working Mom)

Even if such beauty wasn't meant to be in a world so fallen as ours, that didn't take away from its beauty. It only made ...

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

Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a ...

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the ...

I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who are in their twenties, who weren't even ...

How many millennia had she witnessed? Watching people, loved ons, be bron, live, grow and die was at once a thought of wonder and infinite ...

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

A plague on 3PO for action slow,/ A plague upon my quest that led us here,/ A plague on both our circuit boards, I say! ...

The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we ...

Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do ...

Growled and shook my head,vetoing the whore red tube of lipstick

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether.

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that ...

An important part of any good mystery story like 'Original Sin' is that it's not just a game of 'Clue' with surprise after surprise after ...

I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman ...

Can you identify the voices inside of your own head? It's imperative that you do so you can understand who is doing your thinking.

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

Maybe so, but Luke Stark pushed me against the wall and told me he was gonna fuck me, I'd say, 'When and what you want ...

And with trembling, excited hands she put the coveted stockings under Ursula's pillow.'One gets the greatest joy of all out of really lovely stockings,' said ...

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

Petey Samson gave the ladies an over-the-shoulder glance. He realized no doggie treat was forthcoming, even from Isabel who was usually the soft mark to ...

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk ...

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful ...

You're not damaged. But even if you were, I'd spend the rest of my life fixing you. My life isn't mine either,Caitlin. I can't explain ...

Rafe was trying to convince an older couple that they needed an extra toilet.

Thomas," the boss said. "How's your father doing?" "He's good, Sal." Always the family questions first. That was Sal Demenci's style. He could be about ...

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably connected, be fulfilled, awakened, liberated and free. May there be peace in this world and throughout ...

She fought back the tears in her eyes, because though she no longer felt she was one of the Clayr, she still felt she was ...

The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

Love is a word we use for the desire to fornicate so that we seem more refined than farm animals." ~Lucian Balfour

Touch? Other guys? He knew she'd have to, but to hear her say it, to know she'd tried ... A terriblepressure condensed in his chest ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.

The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

There is hope in maybe.Maybe.Such a tiny word.Such a powerful word.

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on ...

The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like ...

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who ...