I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.
I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
what am I supposed to do? My teacher says spit it out and the train says shew chew. What am I?
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
Last week, my aunt Martha forgot her driver's license at home. She was traveling down a one way street in the wrong direction and did not stop at an intersection to let pedestrians go. A police man was watching her but did not give her a ticket or even a warning. Why not?
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
You are in a cold house in the winter. It is dark. You have one match. There is a candle and there is a wood burning stove. Which do you light first?
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
What has root as nobody sees. Grows taller than a tree. Up up it goes. But yet never grows.
Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
I am no insect, some people think I am. Some people think I'm scary but mostly I'm harmless. What am I?
BAby corn and mama corn were walking home one day when babycorn found squashed corn on the floor. He asked mamma corn who that is? What did she say?
In terms of filming, yes, it really does feel over now. There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
short and simple. a poor man has me homeless and free but a rich man needs me loathsome with greed
Whats black, white and re(a)d all over?
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
You can't see me during the day or when there is light but when it is night i am always there what am i!
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
This thing all things devour: Birds,beasts,treas,flowers knalws iron bites steel; grinds hard stone to meal; slays kings, ruins towns and beats high moutains down. What am I?
Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
What is the beging of everything the end of time and space the beginig of every end and the end of every place
All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.
a man arrived into town on his hoarse on friday he was stood for 2 days but left on friday, how did he leave?
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
They put chains on me they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.
I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
What is 1 plus 1?
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
I am a key but i open no door I will never fit into any lock I help to play music but only with others of my own kind I can not do my job alone, What am I?
I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
A man in standing in a room, and someone dumps water on him. Without conciousness of what has happened, he falls to the floor instantly, dead.
What do you call a dog with no legs?
I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.
your grandma wants a 7oz cup of water. she gives you a 5oz and a 3oz how do you get 7oz's.
I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
I tall and green But not a tree Light comes of the top of me turn me on at night fall If i go off you make a call To fix me up Im in london or yours alone I was most popular in great great GREAT granys time zone..... I Am A...................................
While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
If a rooster lays an egg on the top of a steeple,which way will the egg roll down?
You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify this magnet?
My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.
THERES A KID WHO RUNS AWAY FROM HOME HE RUNS TURENS LEFT RUNS TURNS LEFT RUNS TUERNS LEFT WHEN HE GETS BACK HOME THERE ARE TWO GUEYS IN MASKS WHO ARE THEY?
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
a house has four walls a cieling and a beam going across the middle. The front door is locked from the inside and there are no windows. There is a man hanging from a rope tied to the beam and there is a puddle of water under him on the floor. How did the man hang himself?
Movies are an expensive business.
We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.