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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.
I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.
The closer you get to what's happening in TV now and the ways it's evolving, the more danger you get into.
... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.
Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!
It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.
The show [ Too Much Tuna] changed a lot, actually, which is risky when you get positive critical feedback.
I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.
If you care too much about Singapore, first it'll break your spirit, and finally it will break your heart.
Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.
John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him
Yeah, but they're PURPLE pants," Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. "Hence, I'm awesome.
Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.
India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?
Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.
Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.
I would have loved to have worked with Kurt Angle. He would have been a lot of fun to be in the ring with.
The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same
There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.
She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.