You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine
The absence of theistic belief... { }
Nothing like an orange and olive green-striped couch sitting on orange carpet and surrounded by dark wood paneling to get the inspiration rolling.
Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river...that's romance.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.
Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.
Mamoru, each & every one of us have stars in our hearts, & you know that the star is shining when you feel that heat…-Usagi/Sailor Moon
Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
