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I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Libba Bray

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

Orlando Bloom

I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

Libba Bray

Sometimes God allows you to taste the bitterness of this world so that you could fully appreciate the sweetness of faith.

Omar Suleiman

The one thing I couldn't identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

Dwayne Johnson

While DNA could be claimed to be both simple and elegant, it must be remembered that DNA almost certainly originated fairly close to the origin of life when things were necessarily simple or they would not have got going.

Francis Crick

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Orhan Pamuk

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Orison Swett Marden

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Frank Zappa

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

Frank Zappa

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Frank Zappa

God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

Francis of Assisi

What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.

Francis of Assisi

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.

Francis Chan

Fulton J. Sheen

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Orson Welles

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Frank Lloyd

Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

Patrick Dempsey

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Florence Nightingale

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Hippocrates

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Frank Sinatra

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Frederick Douglass

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Frederick Douglass

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

Hugh Hefner

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Oliver Goldsmith

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

Quentin Tarantino

A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same.

Guy Kawasaki

In the Franco era, we couldn't defend our ideas.

Gerard Pique

Sometimes stop what you are doing and smell the flowers. It could help you focus on the significant and truly see what matters the most.

Linda Ikeji

No one really sees pro athletes behind the scenes. They don't know how hard they work. They don't see how you work on the basics. They couldn't possibly know. You wouldn't think that someone who hits like Alex Rodriguez needs to use a tee every day. But that's how he stayed on top of it.

Patrick Mahomes

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