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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 ...
I'm not a big prank guy, because I don't like them done to me. I've been on movies sets where one guys goes into his ...
I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.
However weary he might be of life after three centuries of it, he was more weary of witnessing death.
I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny ...
I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an ...
John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.
Two conspirators with a frog, following the line of a whiffletree.
Allowing yourself to be a conduitfor opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortunecannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to ...
Then, with a stately leap, the sun bounded into the sky, and the whole, messy, beautiful, broken world was stained with fire.
The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six ...
Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more ...
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.
So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter ...
I used to waterski on the Niagara River.
You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.
Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against ...
Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as ...
I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving ...
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. ...
I have consumed so many Weisinger-era Superman comics that they ooze back out through my pores!
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world ...
New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and ...
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
Every footstep we take, every action has a consequence. We breathe in weather, but we breathe out CO2. We're responsible for weather and for climate.
Pakistan's foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors.
Forget the fake syrupy stuff. Melt down a bar of chocolate, mix it into some warmed up whipping cream, and put it on top of ...
There are three things you never want to find in your boyfriend's locker: a sweaty jockstrap, a D minus on last week's history test, and ...
The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding ...
I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I ...
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. ...
Yeah, well, your people happen to be soul-sucking demons. (Wulf)You ever met a banker or a lawyer? Tell me who's worse, my Urian or one ...
Marina Warner's Monuments and Maidens explains how it comes about that individual men's names and faces are enshrined in monuments, supported by identical, anonymous (and ...
When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
In a shadowy place something white flew up. It was a heron, and it went away over the dark treetops. William Wallace followed it with ...
So you do have some claws after all!' (Wyea)'You have no idea,' Ren responded and charged.
When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break ...
He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.
Beside him, Gauri looked distraught. Chivalry demanded that heshould inquire after the Princess's well- being. She caughthim looking at her and frowned:"You're heaving like a ...
There's a bigger cause out there. It's bigger than any of us here. But we stick together, all right? We stick together and look out ...
I watched him playing with the long blades of grass, weaving them into patterns as he hummed an unfamiliar song, a waltz."What are you doing?" ...
I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart
That's the nature of the truth, though. What's fun about being dropped into ice water? That's why half the world walks around wearing rose-colored glasses, ...
Nice to meet ya," Popeye said. He sort of held his hand out. "Do we shake?" "Of course," Ronald said, enveloping the small man's hand ...
Dark Fae are evil. They do evil things to each other, but there is an unspoken rule that you never harm family." She held him ...
It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why ...
The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: ...
The only people who should play for England are English people
To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!
Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, ...
My mom was always like, "If I know that my kid is having fun, she's gonna do whatever she wants. Whether that's gymnastics, learning the ...
(At an intersection on the main road from Nyon to Geneva, for instance, there is a neat villa, window-boxes and all, that reveals itself on ...
It's meant to be seen rolling so it should be big and readable. Wildstyles on trains didn't make much sense to me when I first ...
Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.
A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.~Welsh Proverb~
Warmblood now a bloodborne death,Will rob your body of it's breathMark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate
The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough ...
Mackenzie, the truth shall set you free and the truth has a name; he's over in the woodshop right now covered in sawdust. Everything is ...
The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as ...
As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet.
I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
I would like to write my life story, but it seems to write itself.
I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going ...
The average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily either has a ...
To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.
If you're the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you're reducing significantly the scope ...
As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of ...
To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning.
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ...
Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,Where about the graves of the ...
Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.
If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?
****NOTE 6-30-2015 --Something weird is going on w/my GR profile. This one isn't attached to INTO THE DIM any more, and the one that is ...
The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades ...
We may argue and have our ups and downs, but any poor soul who ever tries to get between us will find out that our ...
Smoking does not make one ill, but worrying makes. Drinking two pegs in the evening would not make you ill, but sleeping with tensions and ...
A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling ...
It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator ...
Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.
Regalverborgenheiten" word found in Gabriele Wohmann's short story "Die Feindin" meaning the comforting seclusion of being surrounded by book cases.
Sometime a #lie is more #honest than the #truth . At least that lie will guide you to the #path you really believe TO walk" ...
I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and ...
The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us ...
Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making ...
In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.
When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it ...
To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, ...
Everyone is from Russia. Sometimes I think I'm from Russia, too. All these new Ovas. I don't know anyone. I don't really recognise anyone. That's ...
Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar,My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the ...
A howl is as infectious to a wolf as a yawn is to a human.
So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps ...
The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.
What did I do to deserve you?" I wonder aloud, feeling like this woman just doesn't stop bewitching me."Nothing really. You bossed me into dating ...
You've got one life, live it. Follow your dreams, quit your job, drop out of school, tell your boyfriend that he's lousy and walk out ...
Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as ...
A guy and a girl can just be friends, but at one point or another they will fall for each other, maybe temporarily, maybe at ...
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science ...
At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not ...