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She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.


Thomas Harris

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ALAN HARRIS That is, we would still not know better than one-chance-in-five whether the impact would really occu...
ALAN HARRIS Whether you could see it from the center of London is another matter.
ALAN HARRIS However, to actually know what your seeing, a small telescope would be useful.
ALAN HARRIS Yesterday, we had a great rain storm for about 15 to 30 minutes, which helped matters a lot. However...
ALAN HARRIS I think my mom used to wonder, 'What are you saying when you're saying that?'
ALAN HARRIS create more difficulty than solving the problem.
ALAN HARRIS In a large telescope the motion would be perceptible against any stars in the field more or less in ...
ALAN HARRIS Because of the nature of the orbit, we cannot predict thousands of years into the future for this ob...
ALAN HARRIS If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!
EMMYLOU HARRIS Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
EMMYLOU HARRIS From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate ...
CALVIN HARRIS While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England ...
PAUL HARRIS The real vibe with us, like everybody's saying, is that this is best team that has ever played footb...
AARON HARRIS We can't play them any time soon anyway. I know we're not playing them next week.
AARON HARRIS I could care less. Oklahoma wouldn't care.
AARON HARRIS Our plan was to get him in situations where he's not comfortable. We just wanted to get to him and f...
AARON HARRIS I signed up for it. It's going to be fun.
AARON HARRIS I guess we'd feel like Auburn did last year. I guess I'd call them and ask them how they felt.
AARON HARRIS We definitely see Tech on the same level with Oklahoma and Texas A&M.
AARON HARRIS I'm tired of having to go home and hear about losing to them. You never want to lose to any team mor...
AARON HARRIS He's like a disease. He's like an infection. He just spreads.
AARON HARRIS I hated to see that because it wasn't us beating them. But you really don't want to put too much emp...
AARON HARRIS The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly ...
ALYSIA HARRIS A Woman's Question

Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by t...
JOSHUA HARRIS It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolut...
CHARLAINE HARRIS The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as...
JOSHUA HARRIS My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
CHARLAINE HARRIS