Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Joseph Joubert
Recitation: by Male by Female
Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.
Jim Harrison
EasyYouWantOthersCallEither
Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a challenge to being one of the industry leaders in that everything you do is scrutinized and watched.
Jim Lee
ChallengeYouImageEverythingBeing
I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Cooper's 'The Wake of the Wind.' That one makes me cry from joy. I'll mourn - I'll actually mourn - and then I'll cry from joy. She's wonderful.
Jill Scott
JoyMeWindSeedCryWild
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
John Milius
LearningWritingLanguageCreateHow
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Jeanette Winterson
ArtPeopleLuxuryWhyUnderstand
Obligations may be universal or particular.
Tom G. Palmer
MayUniversalObligationsParticular
I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.
Robin Gibb
WalkPeopleMeUncomfortableStairs
I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.
Mary Roach
AnxietyLoseDownDoneWriteLevel
I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.
Mike Rogers
TodayHopeI CanDangerousWill
I like helping children. I have a big thing with children. You can correspond with the child, send something to them as a gift. You know it's actually getting there and you are doing something to help.
Lisa Marie Presley
ChildrenChildGiftDoingHelpYou
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
Dolly Parton
FailureGodTimeReflectionFeel
Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.
Dennis Prager
DogResultsKnowVoteTryFirst
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