Quotes of: Television-set Keyword

The way I choose to start my day sets its tone. When I make the decision to begin by giving thanks for the positive things in my life, no matter how seemingly few or bountiful they might be, I am setting the flow for new opportunities to come my way....

It's Your Life, Live BIG

[Lizzie Bennington to a reporter who has asked for her opinion about Jack Archer's celebrated thighs.] “When you come back from a set down and bring the match to a final set tiebreak and are a point away from winning the match, only to have what lo...

It's a Love Game

It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in...

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and j...

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

On to the library. And all through his time at the card catalog, combing the shelves, filling out the request cards, he danced a silent, flirtatious minuet of the eyes with a rosy-cheeked redhead in the biology section, pages of notes spread before h...

A no doubt mad idea

Now, in Mr. Thornton’s face the straight brows fell over the clear deep-set earnest eyes, which, without being unpleasantly sharp, seemed intent enough to penetrate into the very heart and core of what he was looking at. The lines in the face were ...

North and South

Afternoon experience: autographing exposed legs, outstretched in lines like matchsticks. Afternoon epiphany: Those with smooth, hairless legs would soon lose all evidence of my contact when the sweat causes the ink from the marker to run. I am epheme...

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

The intersection of pork and man was circumscribed with vagueness. Until now sausage was a mysterious world: the fenced-in landscapes of strange, exotic muds, the cloak-and-dagger butchers that veiled their conversations in Old French, the silencing ...

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

Frosting was his favorite. He liked to eat doughnuts at every meal. Because it was healthier to eat six small meals a day than three large ones, he restricted himself: jellied for breakfast, glazed for brunch, cream-filled for lunch, frosting for lin...

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

I may not carry a detective’s badge, but I’m certainly the highest ranking member of Albatross Harbor’s neighborhood watch program. And like tilapia, I know something smells fishy when I taste it. In my neighborhood, nobody can take a shit in t...

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

O world, why do you wish to persecute me? How do I offend you, when I intend only to fix beauty in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on beauty? I do not set store by treasures or riches; & therefore it always brings me more joy only to fix riche...

Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Selected Writings

The interdependent couple is the new setting and their knowledge of Self is an ancient treasure."-Serena Jade

Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

On Christian Liberty

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.

Dragon Moon

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Eat, Pray, Love

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

The French Art of Revenge

One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors.

Gone Girl

Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.

The Bane Chronicles