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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.

To my abusers: I forgive you.

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen. Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

This is my friend that we use a lot. Say hello to the trampoline.

My mom instilled in me at a young age how important it is to be properly dressed when you leave the house, no matter the time of day. Even if it's 4:30 A.M. and you're heading to the airport, you want to look and feel your best.

Life is a huge privilege and opportunity. God has trusted you with gifts and abilities, which he wants you to use.

Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.

It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.

If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they will go home and have a slab of marble they can chip away at, but people do have LEGO. I don't have any LEGO specially made for me, all of the shapes, sizes and colours I use are available in stores so that if someone is inspired to create on their own, they can go and buy the very same bricks.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.

I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.

Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man