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There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
If you could just see your face," she told me. "You look like a cat in a bathtub.
I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God.
It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you ...
You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you lovewho you really are. And have the courage to do ...
The years would not wait for Zealers and saviors, not for chance nor hope. The erratic line would scribble on until Nyra washed away from ...
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Think about it - just getting rid of the fat doesn't get rid of the toxins, which are reabsorbed into your body. This creates a ...
IF YOU WANT TO transfer a few hundred gigabytes of data, it's generally faster to FedEx a hard drive than to send the files over ...
Pessimism is not good for the soul.""I sold my soul years ago.""To whom?""The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.
To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of glasses I had, looking ...
A leader is firm enough to be responsive to changes.
While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM or Other Peoples Minutes.-RVM
Let the world go to hell around you so long as you can get to her
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority ...
The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies ...
The labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and ...
A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a ...
I wear quite fitted clothing. I don't like wearing baggy stuff.
Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!
In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of ...
As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.
This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist - and that's what an editor has to be, a student ...
Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even ...
Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your ...
Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis ...
Banking is a branch of the information business.
A woman's life is the sum of her choices.
The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong ...
Many people open their mind through different things like music and painting, as well as Parkour. How is not important. What is important is to ...
You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
I never look at a note. I just roam the stage. The people do not want to leave.
Or that time she made a snowman in Britt-Marie and Kent's garden right under their balcony and dressed it up in grown-up clothes so it ...
Pain has a way of making us more honest.
We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory of the victims ...
Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.
The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.
This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.
Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.
There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, ...
Silence has many advantages ... I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.
Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose.
I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either ...
I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do feel ...
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
Scott had some sort of power, or force field. In essence, he was like fucking gay guy repellant. Not a single gay guy would come ...
Private Zombie is Squad Fifty-three's very own catcher in the fucking rye. Private Zombie, I think I have a crush on you. You make me ...
You must work hard to get what you want.
Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.
I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the ...
Discipleship is developing a personal, lifelong, obedient relationship with Jesus Christ in which He transforms your character into Christlikeness; changes your values to Kingdom values; ...
I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...
The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
The tears that had been threatening to overflow finally did, coursing down my cheeks. I wanted to run after him, to take back what I'd ...
Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need ...
One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be ...
A little tiny person with nothing to worry about running in circles, worried out of her mind.
History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
I don't mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.
I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a ...
I always knew you'd try this Viking shit on me.
How ya doing?" Gabby's face came into view, and she grinned down at me. She'd stopped doing her healing thing, and the pain rushed in."I'm ...
My biggest regret is being naive enough in thinking that what happened is a big enough reason to miss out on each other's live.
You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills
You cannot give to others what you have not given to yourself first.
Let's allow Poland and the Czech Republic to have that missile shield that they were entitled to by joining NATO. I think that's the right ...
Every person is a possibility.
I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.
After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes ...
No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?
Your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
Mere knowledge is not power; it is only possibility. Action is power; and its highest manifestation is when it is directed by knowledge.
I am the moth and he is the flame, and I'm going to get burned. I know.
They don't know it, but they are doing it.
Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In ...
I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.
There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's ...
Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.
Just met a boy, just met a boy when he could become my little problem.
These Sutras are reminiscent of the Four Noble Truths of Lord Buddha: the misery of the world, the cause of misery, the removal of that ...
Georgie never thought she'd be old enough to talk about life in big decade-long chunks like this.
Really, darling, it's a no-brainer. You know, I understand not everybody is for gay marriage. But if you're not for gay marriage, don't marry a ...
If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're ...
Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. ...
Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
I hope we're not gonna just watch.
Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of ...
We are not to lead events, but to follow them.
She'll be intelligent and know more than Connor and me put together.""That's impossible," Connor tells her. "We're the two smartest people in the entire world. ...
The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.
There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always ...