You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be...
What is your itinerary?To meet my maker.Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to your maker?A most mechanical and dirty hand {laughs}. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The...
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way...
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities,...
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.
We were in the gondolas at The Venetian. You said you couldn't swim, that I'd have to save you if we capsized.His Adam's apple jumped. Yeah.I was terrified for you.I know. You hung onto me so tight I...
A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and...
James Hollis correctly observes, Wisdom is always humbling, never inflationary. . . . The realistic thinking of midlife has as its necessary goal the righting of a balance, the restoration of a person...
once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the deeds, both good and bad, that we do?
He glanced at me, then chuckled. Sprezzatura's an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. -Mark Nepo
before speaking, notice what motivates your words.
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the bold. He'd been bold all right, but Fortune hadn't gotten the memo.
Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.
The heart is an organ of perception.
enjoyed both places. But it's nice
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and...
The sense of fear and loss that accompanies the letting go of dreams that will never be is best described by the German word torschlusspanik, defined as "panic at the thought that a door between...
One of his closest friends, Owen Barfield, once said of Lewis that "what he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything."12
...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.
The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like {Chris Kimsington}.
The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability-true stability-is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth.
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
then they had pollo con ajillo, chicken with garlic, and a bottle of portuguese red wine."my god, we're going to stink after this," angela said.
Ana thought eyebrow rings were stupid. She liked earrings, and she could understand nose rings, belly-button rings and even pierced tongues, but metal sticking out of random facial places like...
Mr. Responsible Media was looking rebellious, but this was my country. I was the Cinnamon Roll Queen and most of those assembled were my devoted subjects.
Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.
Another huge advantage of learning as much as you can in different fields is that the more concepts you understand, the easier it is to learn new ones. Imagine explaining to an extraterrestrial...
As it happened I did not grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come...
When I ask my students to journal daily, I ask them not to judge and not to filter. Just put it down, I say-whatever you think of, however you want. A week goes by, and I send along a copy of Joan...
The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.The duty of government is to help them do it.This is the pasta of politics.The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be...
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. Those environments are changing.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
