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By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall ...

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.

FRANK: Do you know Yeats?RITA: The wine lodge?FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.RITA: No.FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the ...

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something ...

You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is ...

Waiting for her answer was like pulling out my fingernails one by one.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends.Past the pits where the asphalt flowers growWe shall ...

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 ...

You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a false mask of gaiety when she ...

Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I'm writing about is me. It seems wiser to ...

We are different races, nationalities, and ethnic groups. We are all Americans. Yes, we fuss, we have differences of opinions, but we are all Americans. ...

You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.

I don't wase time thinking, 'Am I doing it right?' I say, 'Am I doing it?'

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the ...

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

I don't care anymore. Even if she never speaks to me again because of the press, she's worth it. She makes me a person, not ...

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

We've been down the road of your hasty exits too many times, Mrs. Danvers. You married your master, and you married a sadist--of your own ...

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church ...

Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when ...

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you ...

Work smarter, not harder

If I find out that you wasted the best years of my little girl's life because of your fine-wine-aging process, I'm going to kill you.

Edward shook his head. "I'm going to do the same thing with Miss Marshall that I do to everyone I love. I'm going to leave ...

From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

But the main reason you should read this is that I don't see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible things and ...

We're all conditioned that we shouldn't like our brothers and sisters, that we should be angry and fight. But that's abnormal. A lot of people ...

No effort is ever wasted.

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

Time could only be seen in the falling leaves, a wound that healed, a woodworm's tunneling, rust that spread, and hearts that grew weary. Without ...

Why be happy when you could be normal ?

I've always loved the wild rumpus in 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole ...

I jog, actually; I go at night. A lot of women, they don't like to go jogging alone at night. They're afraid they might get ...

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

It's just that the last thing Adam ever said to me.......I remember it all so clear....'Can you go with me, Jordy? I'm not so scared ...

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn't put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life feels ...

What the fuck are you talking about?" I asked, wondering if I was in some crazy surrealist movie, wandering from telepathic sheriffs to homosexual assassins, ...

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake ...

If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 ...

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found ...

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of ...

Are you sleep walking through life? When you move towards your dreams with open eyes and a conscious mind.. then you truly wake up.

I guess that's the thing about a hero's journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. ...

My toaster could have a soul,and the walnut grove to the east of my house could be just a bunch of trees or could be ...

Dinted dimpled wimpledhis mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty ...

Then I added a dash of salt, which counteracts the natural bitterness of coffee,

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom," she said. "It's often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite

Which suggested to me that a novel could be fashioned as a raft of hope, perception and entertainment that might help keep us afloat as ...

Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I ...

If God was able to create [from nothing] that which had never existed, He can certainly recreate that which had already existed.

Brightlord Wistiow let men do as they wished. And so they ignored him. Roshone lets them know he finds them contemptible. And so they scramble ...

Southly thru shrubby heath we tromped now till we got to wideway. Wideway I'd heard o' from storymen an' here it was, an open, long, ...

So many rings, my fingers starting to hizzurt. If you didnt know me you did swear I had that wizzork.. and I am from Pittsburgh.

I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you ...

The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bieber, who'd be locked up if he ...

All I see is sissies in magazines smiling ... Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent?Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass ...

The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and ...

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's ...

Once you've wretled everthing else in life is easy.

Gut reaction is not always God's path. What feels right at the moment has nearly led me down some wrong avenues.

The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" ...

But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne ...

Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when ...

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to ...

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look ...

Something has worked in the past, until - well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to ...

If you look and listen for it, you'll see and hear synchronistic clues from the Universe that go past everyone else but have special meaning ...

As for the end of the universe ... I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ...

Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.

When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.

Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered ...

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and ...

It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the only way for ...

The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; ...

There's certain things that you cannot cross, no matter who you are, what you're doing or where you're coming from.

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

Life is a disease ...

In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject ...

I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team..

Great minds think alike.

My choices were either too much alcohol or a whirl with my vibrator, and I was damned if I'd have a battery-provided orgasm starring Dark ...

We'd like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs