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Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and ...

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be ...

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Daryl Dixon: You got some balls for a Chinaman. Glenn: I'm Korean. Daryl Dixon: Whatever.

You always debate with yourself about whether or not you made the right decision. And you have to then give the person that you're working ...

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking ...

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old ...

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than ...

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat ...

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

I was always pretty funny with my friends.

A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws ...

America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless ... but now the security of the ...

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we ...

Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly ...

What beauty could be your life's mountain peak which you could climb all the way up?

Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor?

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't ...

Had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things ...

I love deadlines," he has said. "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Watch out! Someone taught me that I should watch the people in my boat; some may be rolling the boat while others may be drilling ...

Sammy is Upoopia!" my baby shouted and clapped his hands, instantly bringing all the furniture in the room to life. Couches and chairs upended their ...

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a ...

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even ...

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

We are the fine print that was made to become the BOLD print.

I try to be the best version of me that I can be, whether it's acting or on a personal level.

... And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.

I know when one door closes God will open up another door. What was meant for my harm God will use to my advantage. I'm ...

I don't have a brilliant body at all. I've got very broad shoulders. I've got very big feet. I've also got a very muscular neck.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. ...

May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May ...

We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies.

Felicia's Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.

I stare into his eyes, I shake my head, sorry for the chance we lost. The chance we maybe never had. But not for saving ...

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn ...

Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

Although I don't live there anymore, Scotland is a great place for the people coming over to visit and to tour around the Highlands, because ...

An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God's gift. Be grateful.

What happens over the next few months is like the plot of a children's movie, the kind where a dog finds its owner in spite ...

The alt-right 2016 is like punk rock 1977: it's daring, new, socially unacceptable, inevitable, and scaring the crap out of everyone.

Given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at ...

I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I ...

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

I can't think of any decision where the entire Congress immediately rushes to condemn a decision by the court. It's getting to be election time ...

But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils ...

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said ...

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

Everyday in your life is eventually the last one

1I said, I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin; I will put a muzzle on my mouth while in the presence ...

Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which ...

Thou doth not know the tragedy of a tale between two hearts till the tears of a forgotten love dissolve into the scars of yearning ...

Frohike ... had a long-standing crush on Dana Scully, but basically it was all talk. Mulder suspected Frohike would turn into a jittering mass of ...

Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because ...

I wanted to get out, Vyme, to keep going and not be trapped, to be free ... only I was cruel. I had the chance ...

I used to always be the young one playing without pressure, but I am just happy to be where I am and enjoying my time.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our ...

The Pre highlighted things I needed to tweak. I'm glad I ran there and found the things I needed to tweak and didn't find those ...

We have to think about what level of mercilessness we feel comfortable with.

The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically.What is created by us is the ...

The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes.)

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

Those guys who wore a wedding ring that didn't really look like a wedding ring - or maybe it wasn't a wedding ring at all ...

In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came ...

Looking for a snack? Try wheat or a wheat by-product. Dinner? Wheat &/or its by-product. Trying to patch a leaky roof? We have just the ...

He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it. This is one of the most bizarre things that's ...

He who empties his purse into his mind, shall never go bankrupt.

The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is - they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ...

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

We are told to "despair of nothing we would attain," as "unwearied diligence our point would gain

Reach for the sky but keep your feet on the ground

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, ...

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. ...

Are you waiting for the end of the world? It normally coincides with your own.

In the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else ...

Losing your job is a great blessing in disguise

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not ...

He leaned against her door and sighed. "All right. Here's the deal. You and I can get together over dinner, and you can tell me ...

The love hidden within is always greater than the hate displayed without.