When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
Harold Ramis
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
Orson Scott Card
Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
Liz Phair
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Ambrose Bierce
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
Billy Sunday
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.
Zoe Kazan
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings
Friedrich Nietzsche
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
Kevin Costner
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Lord Byron
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow
The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.
Steve Jobs
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.
Nicole Scherzinger
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.
Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage
C.S. Lewis
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
Madeleine Albright
I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.
Miroslav Vitous
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
George Bernard Shaw
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
Samuel Rogers
Education begins with life.
Benjamin Franklin
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon
It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.
Gus O'Donnell
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
Chita Rivera
I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.
Karlie Kloss
Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?'I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said Caspian. 'I am only a kid.'Good,' said Aslan. 'If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
Leo Rosten
Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern form, would have been meaningless. The 'beauties' which they chiefly regarded in every composition were those which we either dislike or simply do not notice.This change of taste makes an invisible wall between us and them.
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Jane Roberts
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Hugh Miller
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
Thomas Bulfinch
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