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Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)
I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.
There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.
Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.
When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.
Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.
The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.
All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.
The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.
The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.
It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.
That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.
If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.
I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for him
There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.
These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.
The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.
Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.
How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.
The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.
If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.
Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
London Zoo is amazing. I want to take my child there so that she can feel the awe and wonder I felt (and feel) myself.
Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.