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I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the ...

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

How did you know??? I'm Erin. I know all. ;)

People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.

We live in a complex age where many of the problems we face can, whatever their origins, only have solutions that involve a deep understanding ...

You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing ...

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. ...

After a while, the fear became a habit, too.

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.

Guys, IMDB right there, 62 movies, a ton of success, I mean, come on bro, I won best picture at 20. I wasn't even trying.

As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that ...

Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale ...

We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.

To understand love, use the heart, not the brain.To understand the mind, use the love, not the brain.

Never doubt in the darkness what God has told you in the light.

The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart. -Charles Spurgeon

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective ...

When you see yourself in a shattered mirror, don't think of it as the broken pieces of yourself. Think of it as all of the ...

If a woman wanted a man to think of her constantly, she should tell him he could only have her once a wee and bam ...

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.

Never disregard a person who u really loves u cause in todays world true love is hard to find ... Things come and go but ...

Nice tree, he says.That boy has unexpected depth.

He settled down in his favorite armchair and read. Soon he was lost to all else but the rhythm of the words talking to him ...

But there's something about him that makes her heart quicken in the way it does when she's surprised. And she supposes that might just be ...

He also gives a good picture of the profound chaos unleashed in Muslim countries in 1924 by Ataturk's sudden abolition of the caliphate, an institution ...

Know what you do not know.

Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.

Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the ...

It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.

Listening's reading if you close your eyes. Music's a wood you walk through.

I don't think they get paid very much, because they never stay very long. But they should get a million dollars. What they do is ...

And to do something that helps your coven survive, even after your own death, is the greatest gift you can possibly give them ... Angela ...

My life was pretty rough.

Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal.

He dismounts his albino steed, the horse's pinked nostrils flaring, dirty mane matted with ice.

A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

I don't know what popping-and-locking is but I know to lock my car door whenever people are doing it.

My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of ...

If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,When other petty griefs have done their spite,But in the onset come: so shall I tasteAt ...

Her gaze follows my every move. I think she can feel something is weird but hasn't put her finger on it yet. Maybe she's seen ...

You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified ...

I thought you were disgusted by the people that come to my club." "They're still people." He presses the button again. "If you go outside, ...

A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of ...

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

By the time you're my age, you'll realize that everything you once thought mattered so much turns out to mean very little.

Both Jefferson and Madison remained convinced to the end of their lives that all parts of America's government had equal authority to interpret the fundamental ...

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions ...

Our anger is a product of our insecurities.

At Monticello, the peach dominated.

I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's ...

Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he ...

Speculation is not knowledge.

It drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight - the sound of them fighting and not getting along.

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. ...

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of ...

From a thread of skyto the warp and weft of your beingYou're beautiful, graceful,like no other;You're pretty damn good as you are.

Sometimes we meet someone and feel like we have known them all our lives.

Hurry up, please, its time.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is ...

The Torah itself sets obedience in the context of trust.

Still, there are many things we can toss at them that don't require magic at all. Acid. Hot oil. Bookshelves.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

Human bodies are such garbage bags.

Law Number XLVIII: The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you ...

Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

Punishment - shaming a person, caging them, making them unemployable - traps them in addiction. Taking that money and spending it instead on helping them ...

The gravedigger looks like Santa Claus, and I don't believe for a minute he doesn't know it. With his long white beard and stout build, ...

When people weren't allowed to go their own way, they were more likely to break than bend.

My integrity refuses to be altered to fit in with what I'm expected or intimidated to believe.

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

We didn't think that," Jon said. "It might have escaped your attention, Lavinia, but you are not a terribly subtle person.

Take action now, because tomorrow never comes.

I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a ...

The genuine artist, Harris is saying, finds reality in a point of identity between subject and object, a point at which the created world and ...

There is no "secret sauce," but there is a lot of hard work, dedication, and drive.

No way!" I yelled, taking it from him. "I can't believe I made a pink knife.""It's so cute! I love it. Finally, a companion worthy ...

Law Number XLVIII: The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you ...

Serving Leaders have to reduce their wisdom on 'how to succeed' into bite-sized packages.

But what I hope for in a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the ...

That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever I ...

8:3 Loving God (and your fellow man) is so easy when you understand that he knows you! Let God's knowledge of you inspire your love ...

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - ...

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back ...

Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears ...

I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, ...

You die and you die and then you are beyond death.

Never turn your back on government.

If we study it is not to store up knowledge but to deepen our understanding. Our understanding, in turn, can only deepen as we put ...