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Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.
The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.
1821, I told him, noting mailboxes of castles and pirate ships and the street numbers painted on them. I had to fis hmy penlight from ...
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic ...
We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you ...
Wild talent and a bad attitude eventually lose to mild talent and a good attitude.
He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" She stares at him. "Me?" "Yeah," he says sitting back. "I'm way too ...
Wallpaper. Decoration. Her whole life and person, whittled down to nothing. "I don't accept that ," Etta said. I'm neither of those things. And, for ...
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got ...
I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good ...
I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if time has passed ...
Ronan, taking in Blue's posture and Gansey below, observed, "If you spit, Blue, it would land right in his eye." Gansey moved to the opposite ...
I was directing before I knew it was called that.
Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but ...
I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your ...
I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.
I was out at the HBO party, these are liberals, I imagine, and a lot of people came up to me and said, "Keep giving ...
It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.
I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.
I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives, we fall very ...
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
Me - everything might just explode. I keep my eyes on the road. "You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything." "But I ...
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.
All right, all right,' he [Leo] says. 'I know it's hilarious that Mrs. Kelly thinks I clogged up her toilet, but we have more important ...
Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than sex!
I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
It was important to me to be cool as a comedian. I didn't want to be a crowd-pleaser who sent out the vibe of, "I ...
A great leader makes what is visible in their mind, visible to all.
Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, "Remember ...
Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all ...
My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like ...
But as I revisit the arguments offered so boldly in The Wisdom of Insecurity, I can feel the shock of truth that it produced in ...
Sea sand is sea sand.
Their wings will shadow the sun, their breath will scorch the earth, and their fire will consume the righteous!""So we all die ?""No, no, no! ...
Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.
I wanted to curse the maker for not completing the female cast with a delete slash purge button when it came to men.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of ...
Neutrality in a situation of oppression always supports the status quo.
At the heart of most antagonisms are irreconcilable similarities. Hundred-year wars were fought over whether Jesus was human in divine form or divine in human ...
Where madness and charm coexist, wine is never far away.
What is true of the NFL is that it has been well-managed over the years. And that has been beneficial to the fans, it's been ...
My mother says there are people you meet and get to know, and then there are people you meet and already know.
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing ...
I don't want you to stop talking to me because I hear everything you say. And I like sleeping next to you and holding your ...
When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. ...
Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.
When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
Just because we are carriers doesn't mean that we have to live without conscience. The minute we forget that, the minute it's every man for ...
When you have to walk further, wherever it might be, I beg you, never to go alone anymore. I think that as a lesson for ...
You were afraid of me? Don't you meet with the Fallen in Sheol?""Yes, but none of them had ever stolen my heart nor left me ...
Love, whose month is ever May,Spied a blossom passing fair,Playing in the wanton air:Through the velvet leaves the wind,All unseen can passage find;That the lover, ...
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so ...
In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than ...
A generous action is its own reward.
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
Death swallows death.
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with ...
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not ...
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian ...
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights ...
People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.
It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike ...
Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our ...
Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.
In a world without melancholy, nightingales would start burping
I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody ...
He's the kind of guy who might not have an expiration date. Who I could fall for so completely that I might as well put ...
But witchy magic doesn't listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn't really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes ...
Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.
We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it - that makes no ...
There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, ...
Sometimes I wondered if it even mattered whether our communion cups were filled with consecrated wine or draft beer, as long as we bent over ...
Love the ponytail," Connor says, pointing at his hair.Lev shrugs. "It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it.""Don't," Connor tells ...
Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters ...
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 ...
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...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.
Stood at the door zipping, buttoning, fastening; it's what people in Wyoming do before they go outside in late December.
You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the ...
Poetry is the Devil's wine.
That weekend my people brought home a big eared gray scrawny kit.He was so loud and annoying that I did not like him one bit.
To be truly agile requires a state of mind, a mindset that informs every decision. An agile state of being takes more than following a ...
She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.
Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
Corinthians 1:3-4 where it states how we are to comfort others in the same manner in which we were comforted. Put another way: the dirt ...
God is a good choice to lean on. He has a proven record of faithfulness to those who commit their lives to Him.
All stress comes from resisting what is.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see ...
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to ...
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what ...
Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.
The heart can't learn to heal until it knows it's been broken.