The weight of your baggage never stops true love from taking flight.
The past can not be cured.
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan.
The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the protagonist are at one. In fact Woolrich often makes us pull away fro...
Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.
It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.
Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something...
I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.
I glanced in the first open door and stopped short. Desks. Four tiny desks. A wall of faded posters of alphabet animals. A blackboard, still showing the ghost of numbers. I blinked, certain I was seei...
He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt!
He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn't want to actually sit across...
Goody Two-shoes Evie Greene got herself pickled, for true. If I'd known you were such a juvenile delinquent, I might've asked for a new history Juvenile delinquent? Hmm. Aren't your initials J.D.? If...
At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese...
A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her...
You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.
To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.
At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.