When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. Wh...
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these wal...
I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered w...
Don Altobello: You are my 'ace in the hole,' as we say in America. I have a stone in my shoe. You can remove it. Mosca: Only one stone? Don Altobello: [regarding Michael] It's dangerous. A famous man. You will have to take precautions. Mosca: Tell me...
I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.
Oatmeal is a cheap and healthy breakfast.
I don't believe we're the party of big business.
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
Most Like an Arch This Marriage BY JOHN CIARDI Most like an arch—an entrance which upholds and shores the stone-crush up the air like lace. Mass made idea, and idea held in place. A lock in time. Inside half-heaven unfolds. Most like an arch—two ...
Okay, what in Hades just happened? Stones don’t glow blue or any other color and they certainly don’t burn circles on you.” The stone wasn’t talking. Alexandra considered herself well grounded, yet here she stood, talking to a stone that glow...
Change for the better... Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change!
Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.
Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.
It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.
The Bible says, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”41 It’s saying, “Don’t live to get, live to give.
You never know how the little things you do can make a big difference in someone's life.
You may be hard pressed with time, but you can make a little room to be good to someone today.
