Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.
I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.
...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t
While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.
Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
While it's true that Washington would benefit from more civility, the Senate, behind the scenes, is an extraordinarily collegial institution.
While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
Jackie Brown: Aw, the milk went bad while I was in jail. Max Cherry: Black's fine.
Juno MacGuff: I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.
Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.
The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.
America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.
