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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Angel clicked on a few more pictures on the screen, and Alex made small talk about the place. Then h...
ELIZABETH REYES My mission, which I chose to accept, is to infiltrate the enemy. Jack and
Alex are the enemy. I...
SARAH ALDERSON![]()
Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him spe...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ![]()
Love, the deadliest of all deadly things.
It kills you.
Alex.
When you have it.
LAUREN OLIVER![]()
you think you've never been wrong before?"-alex
"sure i have why just last week I bought bobbi ...
SIMONE ELKELES![]()
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love.<...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. ROSE: I love you, Jack.
JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. ...
JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON![]()
He Is Not Dead
I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY ![]()
I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life...
MARY OLIVER![]()
I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my li...
MARY OLIVER Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor...
KELLY JONES Angel clicked on a few more pictures on the screen, and Alex made small talk about the place. Then h...
ELIZABETH REYES My mission, which I chose to accept, is to infiltrate the enemy. Jack and
Alex are the enemy. I...
SARAH ALDERSON
Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him spe... ANTHONY HOROWITZ
Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you.
Alex.
When you have it.
LAUREN OLIVER
you think you've never been wrong before?"-alex"sure i have why just last week I bought bobbi ...
SIMONE ELKELES
It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love.<... KURT VONNEGUT JR. ROSE: I love you, Jack.
JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. ...
JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON
He Is Not DeadI cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away.
I wanted the past to go away, I wantedto leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life...
MARY OLIVER
I wanted the past to go away, I wantedto leave it, like another country; I wanted
my li...
MARY OLIVER Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor...
If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. 
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: mish... 
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said th... 
I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition. 
We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution. 
Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I ... 
If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with a... 
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer becau... 
Buck up or stay in the truck. 
There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing an... 
To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don... 
To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann. 
Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless. 
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless. 
Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humani... 
You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sort... 
[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not ... 
Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling ... 
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; 
But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”
But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open ... 
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. 
There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those ... 
She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot. 
You are an author, a public figure. You are going to be judged no matter what you write, so live you... 
For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the... 
I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix. 
I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I... 
All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient ... 
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know the... 
Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the strivin... 
As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill. 
I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only le... 
There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. 
If the mind is open and awake
then.... do the gods partake
to fill the spaces inbetween
the dreamer ... 
My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That&... 
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then ne... 
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotion... 
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, d... 
Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will on... 
I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' ca... 