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It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life ... what is a life but a history of events ...

In fact, had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the concsciences of others, we should be able to judge ...

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

I didn't know what love felt like, but what I felt for her was indescribable with a single word. It was more powerful. It was ...

If I looked good in 'Wolf of Wall Street,' I cannot take full credit; it was because of the hair extensions and makeup.

O we are wearied of this sense of guilt, Wearied of pleasure's paramour despair, Wearied of every temple we have built, Wearied of every unanswered ...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To ...

From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace ...

Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and ...

You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

And I am much attached to my cock, brother. Make sure your sister can put another prince in the cradle, he says baldly. Save my ...

That's it," Flanagan said, his thick hands gripping the bar and his eyes wide. "I'm getting back on the wagon and I'm never getting off ...

Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh ... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing ...

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.

I'm very much engaged in the political battles, but I'm doing it as a supporter of Republicans out of conservatism rather than an active candidate.

Beware of false positives: Personalities can affect the signals exhibited by liars. Consider

Once I started I couldn't put it down. It was so addictive ... like a train wreck.

The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along-to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow ...

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything went black.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing ...

Not at all, but I hope to know it better. I am so profoundly interested in its miserable inhabitants." "Hah!" muttered Defarge. "The pleasure of ...

Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in ...

You know, in everyone's life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is - one times one equals one.

And he reports the battle news, and then says, 'Oh, and by the way, Pan wants you to build him a temple.

A person is neither right or wrong-- there is only a right attitude and a right interaction.

In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting ... Only this clearing grants and guarantees ...

I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

[T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God ...

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm ...

They don't have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.

In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world ...

London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it.

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans ...

All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood into ultra-whitehood. Just as Muslims have to ...

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

There must be intelligence applied with enthusiasm otherwise you are leaving yourself open to blind faith.

There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.

I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make ...

Some drawings are better than others ... Some are utterly spoiled ... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst ...

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense ...

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as ...

I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

Country without wolves isn't really good country. It's incomplete. It doesn't have its full spirit.

So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?

I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his ...

In a culture where life was short, decisions had to be made in a hurry. You would never have enough time, might never live to ...

Now true humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously.

Women will do anything Oprah Winfrey says, and that is why we can't have women voting.

The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient's conversion to the ...

Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear ...

But on the upside, I guess we're getting ready to find out if you really only love me for my jet.""I might love you for ...

Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted ...

It's not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's ...

Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you ...

God never consults your past to make your future.

I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can ...

It occurred to her then that there was a reason age drained the pleasure out of life, slowly stripping away all the things you enjoyed ...

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

Yeah, cause that would be a smart choice. So, I should just forget about the whole lying to me thing when you pronounce you will ...

Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

So this is what I get for reading too many books I suppose.

Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are ...

Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use ...

When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that's the predecessor, you cannot do anything ...

Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we ...

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your ...

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment ...

Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.

Don Jazzy and I have a past, I never dated Wizkid

We will all lose everything, and perhaps then, by the very shape of our pain, we will earn it back.

Yeah, Stevie thought, you should probably pick up when the vice president of the United States calls.

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young people, for young ...

I dream about home.. and it just makes it difficult to wake up.

Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis ...

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and ...

When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of ...

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was ... a human being.

Look, you don't want to put the power in the hands of the people, okay? You're just going to get three hundred write-in votes for ...

Without change and the occasional struggle, we can't learn or grow.

I've been given my money. Nobody has ever beaten me out of one quarter. And that's all I've ever been concerned about.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a ...

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.