As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.
A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
There is this presumption, in those who feel destined for art and above all literature: we act as if we had received an investiture, but in fact no one has invested us with anything, it is we who have...
He needed the hand on his shoulder, the kiss to his temple and the hot, ragged breath of his Master over his face.
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be...
Whoa, whoa! Hold up, there, kid. She lives in Forks, remember? So she gets rained on.
Know that you are divinely guided and watched over in every moment of every day.
Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.
For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot rest till it be healed up, closed up, smeared with th...
...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.
If I don't make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!
It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son.
someday i will walk under the soul-blossom tree with my hand eternally woven in yours.
Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need
To understand why I jumped from the Mormon wagon train requires an understanding of what Mormons are and how they think. While Mormons have some quaint, quirky and fanatical ideas, they really aren't...
When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg.
Carry good cheer in the morning;Carry good cheer in the night.Effort is sweeter and living completer,If ever we walk in love's light.
River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me.
Paul is a liar, he said so. (Romans 3:7.)
It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.