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I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five… — Ben Webster Copy Share Image
When we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or prideand both are closely connectedwe should… — Sue Sanders Copy Share Image
Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in America. If this is as big as people believe… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?"… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and… — Maeve Brennan Copy Share Image
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt,… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits:… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we… — John Curtin Copy Share Image
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not… — Robert South Copy Share Image
I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery… — Joy Covey Copy Share Image
And what am I? (Adron) You’re kind and decent. You have a good heart. (Livia) I have no heart at all. What… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said… — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp,… — Edward Smith Copy Share Image
The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image