Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.
A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later?
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.
what is brown and shaped like a bucket.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
there are 5 worker men and a little girl had enough for all of them so she gave each of the 4 guys and there was still one apple left in the basket...do you know the answer?
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.
what does a ghost call their parents?
Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
If a rooster lays an egg on top of a house with an angle of an upside-down v ( /\ ). What side does the egg fall down? The left or the right?
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
There is a man and he is locked in a steel room, with NO windows and NO doors...all he has is a piece of wood and a saw he cuts the wood in half but how does he get out?
I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
Two young men loved a girl.the father of the girl said the last camel two the finsh line wins (they each have a camel)what did they do?
If u eat --------- u'll die. Rich people need -----, poor people have -----------. put ONE word that fits in all those 3 blanks.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?
My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the sacred writings.
if there are 5 fish in a bowl and one fish drowned how many fishes are there left
A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?
Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
if you utter my name my name i will cease to exist what am i?
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
A psychologist goes to a village in Africa and decides to compare foot size to intelligence. He notes that in general, as foot size increases, so does intelligence. How can this be?
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.
You are the bus driver you pick up 3 people and drop of 5, pick up 10 and drop of 2 whats the bus drivers name?
Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.
The man who made it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who's using it.. doesn't know he's using it. What is "it"?
Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
you are stuck in a room with no windows, doors, holes, or anywhere to escape from. you only have a mirror and a dresser. how do you escape?
Some stories are true that never happened.
L.A.'s cool I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
do guns kill?