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In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts ...
To be engaged to marry some one with whom you are not in love is an inevitable step in a world where the existence of ...
It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk ...
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 ...
You dont have to know a soul to know what I know to expect what I'm expecting to feel yourself alive and dying in your ...
And only well-informed, warm-hearted people can teach others things they'll always remember and love. Computers and TV don't do that. A computer teaches a child ...
Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.
I remember you organized the big laundry party and all of our friends took their dirty clothes to the laundromat and drank wine out of ...
Parsons are soules waggoners.
No holy place existed without us then,no woodland, no dance, no sound.Beyond all hope, I prayed those timelessdays we spent might be made twice as ...
In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover ...
There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black ...
Reading a stranger's words and finding yourself in them.
If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job.
I am not nor have I ever been a 'wild-eyed' charismatic, but rather an 'empowered evangelical' (Nathan)". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]
The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement ...
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the ...
If you wake up and this is a dream,call me. I'll come running. I swear.
That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.
The wild night is calling.
That whole generation that's gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to ...
Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do ...
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?
Got my country's five hundredth anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it,
I am a big fan of cosy. I get very excited by a roaring fire and even a perfectly made cup of tea. And being ...
Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I ...
I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up ...
You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are ...
I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.
Toys have taken over my family room. I watch Mary Poppins, and no matter how many spoonfuls of sugar I eat, action figures won't march ...
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 ...
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong ...
There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.
Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.
I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I ...
In a moment like this, there were so many beautiful and uncommon things worth saying. Aidan would have said them all, stealing this spectacle from ...
If I looked good in 'Wolf of Wall Street,' I cannot take full credit; it was because of the hair extensions and makeup.
I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, ...
I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down ...
The things you fear are undefeatablenot by their nature but by your approach
Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own ...
My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set ...
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if ...
I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here ...
It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and ...
Soda was glaring at him. Leave my kid brother alone, you hear? It ain't his fault he likes to go to the movies, and it ...
Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!When it comes, never be inert and take your ...
When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness, that is the ...
In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any ...
You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to ...
I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...
The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating ...
I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.
We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You ...
Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.
I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe ...
Miss Sorrows is a wonderful teacher. She really is so good at this. I'll never be half as good as she is. That's what she ...
You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.
Change is uncomfortable and awkward at first. It has a ripping effect on those who refuse to go along with it. It is not fixed ...
I'm willing to be seen.I'm willing to speak up.I'm willing to keep going.I'm willing to listen to what others have to say.I'm willing to go ...
Coward is the most misused word in our society.
Madly is the way I love you. Forever is how long it will be.
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, ...
Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. ...
To say "we're happy" might not be entirely true. Everyone is happy apart from me, as I travel to work wondering what's wrong.
Guilt and Regret always pulls one down.They have an impact like that of gravity.They heavy you like few tons of concrete,Therefore,Instead of growing, moving on ...
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our ...
I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read ...
It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive ...
Do you think, Ari, that love has anything to do with the secrets of the universe?" "I don't know. Maybe.
A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,' like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey Scott. A lot ...
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 ...
Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, ...
As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
You have a destination that doesn't include acting like this moment isn't inhabitable, hasn't happened before, and the before isn't part of the now as ...
Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, ...
Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.
I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or ...
Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker
Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to ...
When the last leaf falls,what will die within us?
The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the "I do" of the wedding ...
...life, like a wire, requires tension on both ends. You care to live and someone else cares that you live. What's the point of holding ...
Many of our students say, 'We wish we had a mentor in high school. We wish we had someone we could spend more time with, ...
Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, ...
To give my next novel balance, I'm going to begin it with "The start" followed by a dozen carriage returns. It offsets the words, "The ...
A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.
For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be ...
As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and ...
Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.
If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, ...
It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her early childhood, when ...