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I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.

He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.

I blew my voice out and the doctor said, don't even talk for a week.

So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"

So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff

He said, 'Always. Always.

you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'

Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

Someone said to me, "Hey, what's it like kissing Marilyn Monroe?" I said, "It's like kissing Hitler. What are you doing asking me such a stupid question?"

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.

I always find that I'm at my best,' Eric said leadingly, 'when I'm at my worst.

There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'

Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me.

I think women have a lack of confidence. They often apologize; I was guilty of that too. When people have said, "Oh, look at your success," I would downplay it.

And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

[Black-ish creator] Kenya Bariss wrote on Girlfriends. We've been friendly since then. He sent me [the pilot] and said, "I wrote it for you." But I know what that means in this industry.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.

My mother never stagnated in a place where she said, I have it all.

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.

If you look at my columns I precisely said we have to avoid that. That it's important not to stereotype [Donald] Trump voters.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

There was a loophole in the law that said if I was working, I could be in the clubs as long as I didn't drink alcohol and had someone with me.

I literally would have been the guy that would have played pro ball until they came to me and said, "Go home, you don't work here anymore."

Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.