The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.
Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home.
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
Neighbors: Hi. Joyce: You all are hiding in there like a bunch of old hermit crabs.
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.
We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.
