The list below begins to illustrate how different personalities can be assigned to different vocal qualities . . .•

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.

My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!