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Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.
I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.
I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.
Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.
Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.
whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.
We're all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE
I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends.
I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.
Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.
Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.
I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.
Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.
If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.
I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.
I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.
Xenon? What kind of name is that?” – Nick “The only kind I answer to.” – Xenon “Don’t eat the help, X. We need him.” – Caleb
Maybe they’re customers. (Simone) For a doll store? Yes, I can just see them now…I’ll take the frilly pink baby doll. (Liza)
And I’m calling in a favor. (Savitar) Sav, you can’t keep doing this. I’m running out of places to put the bodies. (Takeshi)
Well, we better be quick and not become human popsicles. I’m going to be really upset at you if I freeze to death. (Shahara)
What are you, a baby? Jeez, if you’re going to kill humans, the least you could do is learn to die with some dignity. (Wulf)
Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)
I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.
"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent them to you.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Hey there.' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?' I'm engaged!' Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.
All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.