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A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

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• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Planning
  • Details

• People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • War
  • Political

• I do a lot of ceramics.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Party

• I still have a sweet tooth, so I bake a lot, but I'd much rather have one of my sweet potato brownies than a processed chocolate bar.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Sweet
  • Chocolate

• I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Up
  • Time
  • American

• There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Hand
  • Player
  • Baseball

• Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.

  

  Frank Miller
  • War
  • Effort
  • Military

• I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

  

  Jason Ralph
  • Country
  • America
  • Value

• I didn't watch TV or movies as a kid.

  

  Jason Ralph

• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mad

• I resist lists. It must be all those 'Most Important' and 'Best of the Year' ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Important
  • Guilty

• There is a power of God for salvation. And it is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  

  Paul Washer
  • God
  • Power
  • Jesus

• I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Work
  • Independent

• We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Why
  • Science
  • Challenge

• You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Needs

• The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Night
  • Freedom
  • Cold

• Trying to get answers from this creature was like manhandling a fat cow.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Answers
  • Creature
  • Cow

• The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Cat
  • Alleys
  • Slums

• A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Cat
  • Creature
  • Cries