Durante mucho tiempo consideré la imagen negativa que tenía de mí como una virtud. Me habían prevenido tantas veces contra el orgullo y la vanidad que llegué a pensar que era bueno despreciarme a mí m...

Creed scowls. Hardly. All he does now is mope like a goddamn teenage girl. Anytime I'm home, he's in his room with the door locked. I'm telling you guys, he got worked over really bad in San Diego. I...

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more...

But you have such dimples, said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple...

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

Bailey sat on the edge of the couch and fed Maddy grapes. The very swollen mommy-to-be initially complained about being fed like a pet. Eventually, she gave in and enjoyed the attention. Not to be out...

And across these mean Dwellings of Black Step Lane, where as a Boy I dwell'd for a while, the Shaddowe of my last Church will fall: what the Mobb has torn down I will build again in Splendour. And thu...

And I've never been wicked,' said the Witch firmly. 'Least, not by my measure. Just independant-minded.''Wickedness depends on where you're standing, doesn't it?' said Jenny.

An enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection. Baudelaire thought him a profound philosopher... Poe was much the greater charlatan of the two, as well as the greater g...

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?

Here we have baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

Alpha, known as the fine-structure constant, characterizes the interactions between matter and light. It has been very accurately measured in the laboratory. It is indeed the most precisely measured o...

It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong.

Fashion and public relations share a charter to turn life to their own advantage, to make malleable and commercially useful the naked human perception. Both interests consider life too small, dull, an...

I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... of the pain of the Yazidi women

sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions.