Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Ambrose Bierce

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WayMysteriousPropertyMoveAnother

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Jennifer Aniston

LovePainFeelGreaterTo LoveYour

My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it.

Michael Connelly

HopeBestFocusBookSayingFeeling

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

John Zorn

I CanTryAlwaysStageUpBeing

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Suge Knight

ChancePrisonYouSeeGetWho

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

MusicArtPoetryMindPainting

The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes.

Simon Conway Morris

EyeSolutionCameraClearlyAncient

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.

Tommy Lee Jones

WorkPeopleFriendsKnowDoneKeep

They make three types of movies, and if you don't make one of those three, you have to find independent financing: It's either big-action superhero tent-pole thing, or it's an animated film, or it's an R-rated, raunchy sex comedy. They don't make movies about real people.

Rob Reiner

PeopleComedyYouSexFindThree

We spend millions on fitness each year, yet we seem to get fatter.

Mary Pilon

FitnessYearSeemGetEachSpend

As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

Douglas Rushkoff

PeopleBehaviorFastNeverFacebook

I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.

Daya

TeacherSongStartVoiceHideNew

The thing about the Internet is we take everything too far. Once something becomes 'popular' in our realm, it's everywhere, and I get sick of hearing about it quickly.

Connor Franta

SickInternetEverythingHearingGet

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