This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Flurries early, pristine and pearly. Winter's come calling! Can we endure so premature a falling? Some may find this trend distressing- others bend to say a blessing over sage and onion dressing
The character I am trying to create for [Perry Mason] is that of a fighter who is possessed of infinite patience.
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Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal
Jenny, if you're so conÂvinced I'm a loser, why did you bullÂdoze me into buyÂing you cofÂfee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like your body,' she said.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
I would like to bear thy son and hy daughter, she told him. And how can the world be made better if there are no children of us who fight against the fascists?
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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
If you have plenty of money, want not to see but to have seen a bullfight and plan no matter whether you like it or not to leave after the first bull, buy a barrera seat so that someone who has never had enough money to sit in a barrera can make a quick rush from above and occupy your expensive seat as you go out taking your pre-conceived opinions with you.
Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies, you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature.
Individual | Power | Right | World | Wrong |
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Since nothing is free, to each his price.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adjective is often applied to those “liberals” who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the highest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.
Eugene McCarthy, fully Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.