I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel.
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Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE There have been times over the past few weeks, I will admit, that I was concerned that we weren't go... TIMOTHY ADAMS It's overdue. There's been a few times this year that I could've scored if it hadn't been called bac... CHRIS PERRY My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times appre... DAVID BRAINERD I like palm trees. I've been to Hawaii with my family a few times. Maybe we'll study it. ASHLEY CRISELL I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been abl... TROIAN BELLISARIO The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn... MARKUS ZUSAK We have a project on the books right now to replace the women's jail, ... but it's only partially fu... JIM GRANT But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly,... JAMES BELUSHI Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER I visited Lou Reed in New York a few times before I went away. I visited them a few times when I was... JONATHAN RICHMAN I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home ... MICHELLE PFEIFFER She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her. SAMUEL JACKSON Cannibal, there are outside people which have already eaten a person and have described the taste in... DEYTH BANGER I've only been back a few weeks but it really feels like I never left. I only had to be at Orange Co... CORY REED We played against each other in England, and we've been out a few times together. ANDRE NEL It was mainly opportunists and locals, ... We've had a few out of state. They hit convenience stores... GEORGE PAYNE When I came to play in Pittsburgh, I had been in the league 11 years. I had been through the ringer ... ED OLCZYK The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The Love Child of a Wildflower : Someone who has been around the "Rock " a few times.. KJFORCE At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone... DAVID SOUL There's been several times that I thought this would be my last start, but we've been able to get th... ANDY PETTITTE A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO The three days in jail he's had now could be like a year for some. In jail I worry about his ability... ROBERT HUNT You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution. FRED HAMPTON I think I'd make a better president than George Bush. I'll tell you what, George Bush and Dick Chene... DAVE MUSTAINE I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well. ERIC DANE He's very proud. When they put that shift on, sometimes he loses hits. He's been robbed a few times ... TERRY FRANCONA Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I am what I have ever read BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his min... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths. BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple m... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A writer is a thought smith; he educates men to think for themselves BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not ... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them w... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, com... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer abo... FLOYD ABRAMS
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ROMAN REIGNS It's always been my expectation to be the top guy, the face of the company, the one with all of ... ROMAN REIGNS After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first... ROMAN ROMANENKO You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and... ROMAN POLANSKI A lot of people tune in to 'Monday Night Raw,' and they can hear these boos or these mixed r... ROMAN REIGNS If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit... ROMAN POLANSKI Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that... ROMAN POLANSKI Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ROMAN GARY I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of alge... NANCY ROMAN At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic featur... ROMAN JAKOBSON When I started to make more or less serious money - for those times - then, of course, I wanted to s... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, ... ROMAN COPPOLA As far as match-ups are concerned, I feel pretty good about matching up with anybody. I'm sort o... ROMAN REIGNS Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ROMAN POLANSKI I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories... ROMAN COPPOLA Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the t... ROMAN JAKOBSON It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbin... ROMAN JAKOBSON To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: on... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,... JOSHUA ROMAN Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a ... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Our strategy for expansion of the Borders brand outside the US is one that we view as essential to o... ANNE ROMAN Borders absolutely supports the customers' right to choose what to read and what to buy, and Free In... ANNE ROMAN When you have good people, you want to do what you can to retain them. If part of that is helping th... ANNE ROMAN Every effort is made to offer positions to current staff. ANNE ROMAN We do often attract former teachers and other professionals who spend their lives around books and e... ANNE ROMAN If it's a good tourism season, there'll be some hiring done at our stores. Tourism drives (hiring) t... ANNE ROMAN You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would ... ROMAN REIGNS Most of my hobbies involve athletics and outdoor activities. I'm willing to learn about anything... ROMAN REIGNS Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to b... NANCY ROMAN In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism bec... ROMAN JAKOBSON The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director mysel... ROMAN COPPOLA I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks dese... ROMAN COPPOLA Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as comi... ROMAN JAKOBSON I used to be a lot better looking before I joined WWE. Whatever happens in the ring is real, and for... ROMAN REIGNS Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a pa... ROMAN COPPOLA I'm a curious person. 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