The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.
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Related It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t... CRISTIANO RONALDO 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is... DREW BREES Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-of... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Do the thing and you will have the power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you. Either you just let the grudge go, or mak... TOBA BETA It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they... ALBERTO CAEIRO If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the fig... ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the ... ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning ... ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be... RENEE JAMES If you don't think it. You'll never do it! ANTHONY T. HINCKS The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction.
Cause I still love the cause of my destruction
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN You know your value,
Only when someone else crumbles it...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno... GARY F EVANS... Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart..
- Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept... ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love...
-Anshika. ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself ....
... ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him...
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RAY BRADBURY There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ... RAY BRADBURY Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà... RAY BRADBURY Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr... RAY BRADBURY Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ... RAY BRADBURY First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done. RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ... RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ... RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i... RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I... RAY BRADBURY I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav... RAY BRADBURY If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ... RAY BRADBURY One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor... RAY BRADBURY Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,... RAY BRADBURY We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v... RAY BRADBURY I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. RAY BRADBURY That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi... RAY BRADBURY The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school. RAY BRADBURY There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go... RAY BRADBURY Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha... RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi... RAY BRADBURY The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on... RAY BRADBURY If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne... RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi... RAY BRADBURY Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? RAY BRADBURY Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. RAY BRADBURY You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... RAY BRADBURY You fail only if you stop writing RAY BRADBURY Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious... RAY BRADBURY