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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation,… — Joey Sturgis Copy Share Image
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half,… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
“History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we… — Edward Bloor Copy Share Image
“And, er, these stories about you..." "Oh, all true. Most of them. A bit of exaggeration, but mostly true." "The one about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And it took to "The Devil Wears Prada" to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
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I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise,… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
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There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs.… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
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