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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare... MARGARET MITCHELL Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson. DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth... NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight, Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite, E... CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door. “Ri... JEANIENE FROST Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars. DAVID MACKAY Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead. JIM GENOVESE Everything has it's own time and place,
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow. SHELLI THOMPSON If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect ch... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST The sons of God are not supposed to go into battle against their problems, they should always go eve... SUNDAY ADELAJA Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves A... STEVE BUYER They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO America's veterans have earned more than this President and the Republican Congress have provided. W... DAMIEN LAVERA May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new. BURT RUTAN Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that.... JOHN GREEN Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. DOUGLAS ADAMS The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizab... DOUGLAS ADAMS God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience. DOUGLAS ADAMS Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov... JOSS WHEDON Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE He created us for adventure, not ease. MARY E. DEMUTH You learned right away that applause sounds like love. AVA DELLAIRA ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ... NATALIE GOLDBERG This Arthur Dent," comes the cry from the furthest reaches of the galaxy, and has even now been foun... DOUGLAS ADAMS The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet. 'Not always,' I countered. 'Yes, alw... RUTA SEPETYS The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite... MARGARET MITCHELL [Director Bill Paxton] told me to watch 'The Legend of Bagger Vance,' ... I go watch it, and I come ... SHIA LABEOUF [Director Bill Paxton] told me to watch 'The Legend of Bagger Vance,' ... I go watch it, and I come... SHIA LABEOUF Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave vete... KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t... ANTONIA PERDU Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL Well there may very well be home visits for these animals to make sure that they're going to go into... LINDA MILES Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. ATTRIBUTED TO THE REV. DENNY BRAKE Promise me you'll always remember that you're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and s... CRISTOPHER ROBIN TO WINNIE THE POOH All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... MARGARET ATWOOD PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Life is a competition to eliminate fear and doubts to double our life to live better not bitter in t... NAZIM AMBALATH We create refugees, and then our Democratic Party, together with the Republicans, who are also a par... JILL STEIN If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to... DREW HOUSTON It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. ... JAMES C. DOBSON A walk?" said Catharine. "One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bri... KURT VONNEGUT JR. The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Kompjuter je samom sebi zbrinuto zaćeretao primijetivši da se jedna zračna komora otvorila i zati... DOUGLAS ADAMS He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much... 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There's a word I really hate. It's a phoney. I could puke every time I hear it J. D. SALINGER Mothers are all slightly insane. J. D. SALINGER That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ... J. D. SALINGER It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anythi... J. D. SALINGER Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a h... J. D. SALINGER Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep ma... J. D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. J. D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow. J. D. SALINGER People never notice anything. J. D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin... J. D. SALINGER Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to ... J. D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp... J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e... J. D. SALINGER When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom whe... J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. J. D. SALINGER You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o... J. D. SALINGER How do you know your going to do something, untill you do it? J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. J. D. SALINGER Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all r... J. D. SALINGER I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl ... J. D. SALINGER Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. J. D. SALINGER The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not s... J. D. SALINGER Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse... J D GABRIEL Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. J. D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. SALINGER I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of wr... J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyo... J. D. SALINGER It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it. J. D. SALINGER Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit ac... J. D. SALINGER If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. J. D. SALINGER I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. J. D. SALINGER Where there's smoke, there's usually strawberry Jello. J. D. SALINGER