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Parker, I'm old," She said matter-of-factly. "I get away with these things." She continued to wave and smile wildly. "People treat me like an idiot so I'm allowed to act like one from time to time. It's one of the perks.

Letters In Cardboard Boxes

Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are those good times valuable.

Team Of One: We Believe

At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason is this: On the islands one has both the time and the inclination to communicate with the stars and the trees and the waves drifting ashore, one ...

World Is My Home

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green ...

Confessions of a Barbarian

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broke...

Stanley Hauerwas

State trooper: I never gave a ticket to a nun before. I gave a ticket to a guy from the IRS one time. Got audited the next year. I'll tell you what, this time I'll let this one slide, but keep your speed down, yeah?

Dead Man Walking

Sharkey: [O'Donnell has been shot in the leg by Crowning's henchmen] Don't worry, Jimmy. With one leg a little shy, you're gonna take giant steps. James Conway O'Donnell: Yeah... always one step behind you, eh Sharkey?

Once Upon a Time in America

The big, burly oaf offended my girl, so without hesitation I rushed to her defense. I did, however, make a few stops along the way, and by the time I got home and back, the dispute was settled and she had found another way home.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never ...

Memento mori

I'm not sure how old I am, mainly because there are so many different ways to tel time-one one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what ...

Gorden dahlquist

When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The idea here is to exact a full look at the worst. The reason boredom deser...

Joseph Brodsky

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.

Persian

I chug coffee—for fun and for love.


My love can only occupy one person at a time

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better.

Margaret Oliphant

Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.

Mercedes M. Yardley

Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.

Paul Sadler

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Chuck Palahniuk

...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.

Charlie Brooker

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Jean Rostand

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

Eli Roth

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

Juliette Binoche