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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
We're learning more about Osama bin Laden. His father was married 16 times, and he has five wives. I think we're getting… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the premiere of Hairspray on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's mom said to my mom, "Didn't we raise great sons?" and my mother… — John Waters Copy Share Image
You know, I keep having this really weird feeling that you’re going to take me someplace later and tie me up so… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night,… — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
Longhaired preachers come out every night, Tryin' to tell us what's wrong and what's right. But when asked about something to eat,… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The money men make from their willingness to work the least desirable hours is not a sign of discrimination against women, but… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help… — David Gergen Copy Share Image
I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
“It begins to rain. The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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Too bad. There's a party on the coast. I thought we could go." He actually sounded sincere. ( a bit after) I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record… — Moby Copy Share Image
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I can't just sit on my daughter's bed and just say 'n---' all night and then put her to sleep. I just… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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Why did you do it?" I say. "You want me dead. You were willing to do it yourself! What changed?" He presses… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
My hair is God's aura. Everything went up when I got home from the penitentiary. One night I went to lie down… — Don King Copy Share Image
I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on… — Ivor Cutler Copy Share Image
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do.… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“I feel like a parent whose children prefer to stay inside and watch TV. The father pleads, "It's a beautiful day. Why… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she's born she'll scream and I'll tell her to never… — Nicole Blackman Copy Share Image
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...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image