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As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on.
A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.
I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.
I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.
Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.
You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny.
I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.
“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”
Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.
I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.
Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?
I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together".
I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.
"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."
It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.
I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'
Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.
I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is.
Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".
People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.