I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.
I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.
I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time.
My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
The right books are like crowbars for our imaginations. When we find ourselves stuck at some place in life, the right book can pry open our inner idea banks. You know those moments: life has become so routine you could do it in your sleep-in fact, yo...
Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a few small steps. She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails gliding across the spinal cord of each book. It sounded l...
if everything happens that can't be done (and anything's righter than books could plan) the stupidest teacher will almost guess (with a run skip around we go yes) there's nothing as something as one one hasn't a why or because or although (and buds k...
She raised her hand to cut me off. "I am aware of your epistolary flirtation. Which is all well and good--as long as it's well and good. Before I ask you some questions, perhaps you would like some tea?" "That would depend on what kind of tea you wer...
There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through ...
Finding the Father My friend, this body offers to carry us for nothing– as the ocean carries logs. So on some days the body wails with its great energy; it smashes up the boulders, lifting small crabs, that flow around the sides. Someone knocks on ...
I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in Los Angeles, and spent long days every summer in the library. I used to steal magazines from a s...
A girl with a golden cradle doesn't remain long in her father's house.
Words that come from the heart stay warm three winters long.
If you take too long to choose, you will end up with the leftovers.
He who wants to jump high must take a long run.
He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.
One finds little ingratitude so long as one is in a position to grant favors.
He who dreams for too long will become like his shadow.
If you think about things too long, good thoughts will disappear.
