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You want to marry me?" Xavier asked, and I saw some faces turn toward u in curiosity. "I was thinking we'd start slow and see ...
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I ...
I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.
Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.
For in this worldof ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more completely, leaving behind, ...
You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and ...
Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be ...
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their ...
Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is ...
Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
Death is walking up and down this room smoking my cigars taking hits of my wine
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.
Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring ...
One of the beautiful things about the idea of living forever is what that does to your soul and how it changes you.
It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based ...
More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The
And finally there was the sleepless nightwhen i decided to explore and fightthe foul, the inadmissible abyss,devoting all my twisted life to thisone task. today ...
No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or ...
We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their ...
We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
I was on the plane with Dwayne You can call me Whitley, I go to Hillman
A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.
I got with PETA for a fur campaign, specifically for fur.
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas ...
Is this you trying to cheer me up?" "What are you ... going ... to do about it?" I asked. "Your Wussiness?" He touched his ...
If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to ...
I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you ...
Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden ...
I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and ...
If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus ...
You've always been my safe place, my escape when life gets crazy. You're my calm through every storm.
Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
For the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe ...
Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream?The Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it.
We may still have as many questions after the game as we did before the game. But that's OK. Good teams answer their questions as ...
Take care, Seeker. You have the gift. Use it. Use everything you have to fight. Don't give in. Don't let him rule you. If you ...
Well, probably the best way to put it might be that at some time, not just in an instant, but over some period of time ...
Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether ...
Although watching her three children toddle to her, sleep-stained from their nap, rubbing their eyes while they make their way to Mama, little hands touching ...
Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.
No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take ...
And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a ...
Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
It's always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
Yeah, a lot of people ask me to take my shirt off, which is aggressive. I wish that I were just one of those guys ...
Madness doesn't get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.
When this story ends, a new story starts. That's how it goes. How it always goes. -Amy, Willowgrove
The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself ...
Being more aware will enable you to have only astonishing impressions, avoiding any of the disappointing experiences like some of those we went through.
There will be some one at the White House whom you will like more than me," Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the ...
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders and planners marry dreamers.
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance ...
Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, ...
To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in ...
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.
Comedy is, of course, closely associated with eggs.
I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and ...
To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.
What a glorious thing it is for us to have the privilege of going to the temple for our own blessings. Then after going to ...
All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.
I was a great friend of the Europeans. I grew up in Wiesbaden. I love Germany very much.
A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, ...
Founder Rouse wanted to challenge a lot of ingrained biases in our culture; taste was not among them. He gave people the ticky-tacky houses they ...
This is the city of uncertainty, where routes and faces look alike and are not. Death will be like that. We will forever be recognizing ...
First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of ...
We kept eating for a while and I though maybe this would be enough for one night. We'd moved into a very safe territiory. I ...
In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy ...
He kissed me tenderly as my heart thumped out of control. My fingers slipped into his thick, black hair and held tightly. He paused, not ...
Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
You're born, you take shitget out in the world, you take more shitclimb a little higher, take less shit. till one day you're in the ...
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The ...
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
We know the story of the Deluge from the Holy Scripture. Why did the first race of men come to such a tragic end? Because ...
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even ...
Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity." "FYI, philosophy bores me." "Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives ...
Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going ...
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state ...
Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.
A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp ...
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, ...
Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album ...
She was one of the unfortunates trying to get some sort of human grasp of Earth's economics, and deserved all the light relief she could ...
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live nowLOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick ...
I do have an important question, but I can ask it from out here. Are you dry?Of course I'm dry. Why do you ask that?So ...
Jenna nodded, wiping tears away with the back of her hand. She leaned toward David and they hugged again. "I was never okay with losing ...
Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.
Was that what it was all about? To know everything - the ultimate quest of the philosopher, to comprehend the universe from the highest heaven ...
You see what I'm saying?" Mooner said. "Something else always comes along. You go to jail, you don't have to worry about anything. No rent ...
The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising ...
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, ...
Here I am ... wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all endthat there is such a thing as death.
You should never turn your back on the market that gave you notoriety and be who you are and give you the numbers it gives ...
I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As ...
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.