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I've been sitting here watching the river. It never stops, you know.
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes ...
I'm too set in my ways to start doing the right thing," he complained. "You're a bad influence, Horace.
We are all pilgrims on an elusive and endless road ... Despite our attempts to build lives on stone foundations, our spirits continuously flow. Endless ...
Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he ...
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of ...
Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the ...
Patterns repeat themselves in history
I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.
Let your imagination cast a spell on your pen, and be amazed at how it moves, and exposes your freedom.
What was home, really? Just a place to lay your head.No. It was so much more than that. It was a place where a person ...
I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint.
If you are currently in a relationship in which you are also willing to 'do anything to make him happy,' even at your own expense, ...
When you mix with the wrong energy, there's bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What's really real, ...
Waking to the truth when it's too late is a terrible thing. I know that very well.
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 ...
We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what ...
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, ...
Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.
One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit ...
When I'm with Ben I eat at regular times because he does, I eat regular things, but when I'm alone I indulge in junk food ...
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
You've pulled off some shocking upsets in the past, but only a fool would bet on you this time. So I will.
He felt torn. He wanted her to feel safe with him, but he also wanted her to feel the sort of heady excitement that any ...
Yes, I just wanted to see how you looked. And right now I'm tempted to whisk you away to a castle thousands of miles from ...
In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while ...
Wichita Falls, Texas is considering using toilet water for drinking. And a dog there today said, 'White people's problems.'
It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ... what am I grateful for ... and ...
I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. ...
In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the ...
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.
Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.
Every emotion we feel is like one drop of rain in our heart. When our heart rain starts to overflow, it leaks out the window ...
The world is only as small as your mind makes it.
The self-actualization process for a man is a conscious choice of a life goal and the way to achieve it
There are many kinds of betrayals. There are the small ones: the unkind word, the laughter behind someone's back, the petty lies. And there are ...
Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time.
You're talking about the whole 'completing each other' thing, and I hate that. It's such Hollywood bullshit. We don't complete each other - no two ...
There was genuine affection. Mom knew all this. "Thank God Eloise is uglier than a cow living near Chernobyl," Mom liked to say. "Or I ...
'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, ...
The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on them. Already on ...
If no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation.
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to ...
Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the ...
There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.
The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who ...
He was Carmine Marcello DeMarco ... and even broken, he was beautiful.
Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don't want anything. Everything will run after you.
When the thing observed ... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often ...
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
Every decade has a completely different sound not just musically but vocally.
There is almost nothing more common than the belief that one is above average in intelligence, wisdom, honesty, etc.
Nowadays we are forced with so many things in life in society that all of the sudden we are no longer in tune with our ...
When the day seems darkest, Remember there is always a friend nearby, A shoulder to cry on, A warm hand to wipe away the tears. ...
Be a voice for the voiceless y'all. This world needs more love and hope!
The promises you make on your mother's deathbed are promises that are absolute; they're titanium. There's no way you're breaking them. I promised my mother ...
The happiness state, when examined more closely, turns out not to be a point but a range, with contentment at the bottom and exaltation at ...
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts ...
Approach each session as an occasion to practice being with another without expectation.
A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they ...
So what was the hardest part?' Mr Gopnik said.'I'm sorry?''Of working for William Traynor. It sounds like quite a challenge.'I hesitated. The room was suddenly ...
Tell me - everything." So he did. About the hellfire, and the Wyrdhounds, and Lorcan. And then the past three days, of organizing and healing ...
Doc. There is no 'something else' for me. There's no second option. It's you. It's just you.
I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.
Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.
People learn by playing, thinking and amazing themselves. They learn while they're laughing at something surprising, and they learn while they're wondering 'What the heck ...
Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, ...
We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.
The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to ...
Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.
When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and ...
She fumbled in her apron pocket for her tobacco pouch. "Has anyone got a light?" she inquired. A couple of actors produced bundles of matches. ...
I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.
Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills.
The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I ...
That's one problem I've always had: when I'm anywhere near shit creek, I have to know how far up that creek actually goes." --Hester Day
Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.
My hair covers my scarring.''But we've agreed that no one notices your scarring once they're around you. You woo them like a big, fat hairy ...
Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.
The change starts when you start watching a video. You don't see it, you don't feel it but it starts at this moment, just by ...
You know, sometimes I envy you. It must be nice to be a wolf. Just for a while." "It has its drawbacks." Like fleas, she ...
Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did ...
Iron can only be destroyed by rust, and rust is a slow process which is caused by the hydrogen ion from water in the environment. ...
There are idiots in every crowd.
Be a lady? Forget it. Ladies don't last a day in the real word. No one's a lady anymore. Why do you think we get ...
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a khakis and polo ...
I don't like crowds because I am small and fear being trampled. My ideal night out is a dinner party in my backyard with a ...
I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next door to me.
Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.
The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel ...
Truth is never far behind.
There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that ...
There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.