Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there's not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk ...
Violence is the most popular political commodity. Politicians are the wholesalers of violence. Ruling elites are the main beneficiary of violence and working classes are the innocent and silent victims of violence. When politician and corporate force...
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. ...
When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
During the summers, when I'm in Maine, I work at a desk that's located beyond all tendrilly wi-fi reaches. It takes me a few days to break the constant e-mail-checking habit, then I find I don't want to check my e-mail ever, and often don't for days.
I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
I've always heard that heli-skiing in Alaska is amazing. I would love to be able to do that at some point in my life.
I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.
It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
Jesus is more likely to lead you across the street than across the ocean.
We are all alone; the difference is someone of us in the bed and some of us on the street.
So basically,” Calvin said, “this is in a walk-up on West Twenty-Second Street with no music and no Julie Andrews.
Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one. - Courtney
When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.
I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.
I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.
You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
