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Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

First off, the PS2 and PSP can play against each other online.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.