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The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, ...

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into ...

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently ...

If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box - no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her ...

Curran looked at me. What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling?

An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I ...

Man-made fabrics? What provenance do they have? A squirt of gloop into a petri dish? Strands of plastic spun in sterile laboratories? They are but ...

I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required ...

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more ...

Sir William Thomson, also known as Lord Kelvin, was an ingenious physicist and engineer, and he said that when you can measure something and express ...

Crying only makes your problems last longer.

You don't have to compromise to be recognized.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff too prove that they are worthy of a woman's attention.

Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna ...

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted ...

Looked like a toothless walnut.

We are all puppets hanging over an ocean of madness.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns ...

Class is not defined by our circumstances - it is our reaction to those circumstances that defines who we are.

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you ...

What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you ...

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.

The sick were a ferocious lot. They'd walk right through you if they thought that health was on the other side.

The quarterback has to get rid of the ball quickly, so there's not a lot of time to make moves to gain separation.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is your ...

I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.

It is the surest test of genuine love, that it brings back our early simplicity to the worldliest of us.

You're my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

Stated most simply, New Death is the condition whereby human corpses now lie always on a horizontal vector - no matter the angle of the ...

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live ...

I'm doing all sizes. It's a strange thing to stop at a certain size. Women don't, so why should clothes?

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for ...

I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.

The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous ...

Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.

There is nothing to lose in life. Be courageous!

It seemed bleakly ironic to me that someone who craved, deserved and had worked so hard to earn a tragic, early death appeared to be ...

When you do something that people watch and enjoy as children, that's great because it stays with you, throughout your life. The things you loved ...

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

The baby understands that its mother loves it. [ ... ] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.

We're on a planet, relax!

College-educated workers are more likely to enjoy what they do for a living, and identify closely with their careers, so work long hours willingly.

I'm a fucking coward.""Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.

As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and ...

I love watching a movie that is smart, that makes me think, that includes me as an audience member, and I especially love it when ...

Abby's eyes fell on a wooden sign hanging near the foot of his bed:I'm only passing through ... this world is not my home.

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can ...

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

You want me to ask you why you left? Why you chose the open sea over my bed? A criminal's brand over my touch? I ...

Wowers never speede well, that have a false harte.

Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have ...

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make ...

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 ...

You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory ...

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.

He went to sleep as soon as they'd gone, waking in the middle of the night and walking outside into a sky whose stars hung ...

But Warden cared if I laughed. He cared if I lived or died. He had seen me as I was, not as the world saw ...

Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the "mystery of ...

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

1. The picture must, by its mere arrangement, make you look at it. 2. Having looked - see! 3. Having seen - enjoy! The ...

Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same ...

The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the ...

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this ...

So," Asa said conversationally, "want to go home and play butterflies?" Sebastian grimaced. "Do you promise not to pull my wings off?" Asa looked at ...

One thinks one is going to the tropics and one finds oneself in the Chinese version of Welwyn Garden City.

The only relationship where you'll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.

Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to ...

We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no ...

When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.

The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.

If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent ...

The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that ...

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom ...

Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser

There is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school ...

The skies she retained in memory were dramas of cloud and sea storm, or the electric sheen before summer thunder in the city, always belonging ...

I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my lifebut dancing and sexI'd go to night clubs and danceThen I'd meet someone and have sexit ...

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory ...

Secrets are such hard things to manage whwn you're not the only one who knows.

The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag ...

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

We're needed to save an innocent barrel of wine from a lecherous duke's son.

One of the beauties of B2B is that there is a finite number of customers. So the marketing costs are much different. You don't have ...

Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to ...

Until you find where the goal post is, you shall only exert all your precious energy and ability shooting in the direction of goal kick ...

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone ...

The bronze rider of Mnementh, Lord F'lar, will require quarters for himself. I, F'nor, brown rider, prefer to be lodged with the wingmen. We are, ...

Y'cannae see can ye? Y'know who christened you lot the 'underclass'? The same sinister bastards that changed Windscale to Sellafield...they're nuthin' but a lot of ...

God never gives us more than what we can carry.

I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I can count on ...

On a cold bubbling spring, covered dishes and crocks and pitchers of milk and butter and so on flouated in a circle in the mild ...

Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is ...