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asleep couple helped issue sort until wheel
Until a couple years ago, the FCC was sort of asleep at the wheel when it comes to indecency enforcement, ... We helped jump-start the FCC and get them to look at this issue seriously. Melissa Caldwell
asleep companies simply
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel. Nathan Kirsh
asleep fall question raise
What this does, at the very least, is raise the question of competence. Did someone fall asleep at the switch? Dennis Goldford
asleep beauty boy break castle courage court curse fairy frogs girl haunting hide hundred love magical royal tales worlds
I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness. Kate Forsyth
asleep believe fall
I believe I am blessed with the ability to fall asleep just about anytime, anywhere. I can sleep on a flight, on a couch, and even on a bus. Shilpa Shetty
asleep people putting
We're not consistently putting people asleep when we need to. Tom Inman
asleep deal dreams gradually great life occurred spend
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?' Sue Monk Kidd
asleep blessed fell hands husband light meet visions
She and her husband fell asleep with hands tenderly clasped, and awoke, from visions of unearthly radiance, to meet the more blessed light of one another's eyes. Nathaniel Hawthorne
asleep debate drab fall front people percent tv watching
Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competition. They like not to fall asleep in front of the TV set, watching the drab debate the dreary. Ralph Nader
falling-in-love mind vision
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see. Chogyam Trungpa
falling-in-love vision clarity
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see. Chogyam Trungpa
falling-in-love ideas design
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores... Chip Kidd
falling-in-love jobs technology
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another. Chip Kidd
falling-in-love tv-shows america
I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad. David Schwimmer
falling-in-love buying firsts
If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding. David Sedaris
falling-in-love book writing
When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars. David Guterson
falling-in-love firsts albums
I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer! David Crosby
falling-in-love zero-gravity percent
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. Dave Barry
games two lawyer
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant. Charles Dickens
games words-of-wisdom delight
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. Charles Dickens
games planning designer
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. Charles Stross
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts
games fire giving
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all. Alan Watts
games boards vendetta
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with. Al Alvarez
running men roots
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. Charles Caleb Colton
running vices common
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. Charles Caleb Colton
running moving views
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. Charles Caleb Colton
running men hands
Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes. Charles Caleb Colton
running eye two
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. Charles Dickens
running pain boys
I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir. Charles Dickens
running church-bells religion
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. Charles Studd
running europe usa
My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period. Charles Stross
running wall real
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast? Charles Stross
sudden-death
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable. Dick Cavett
suddenly
She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done. Donita Stewart
sudden three
(Miller) just hoisted us up. Defensively, she got about three picks. We were down two at half, and all of a sudden we're up by five, that was critical. Mark Woodhead
suddenly wrote
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first. Feist
sudden
I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I'm pregnant. Nicole Ari Parker
suddenly wake
I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man. Charles Nelson Reilly
sudden
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk. Harry Hamlin
suddenly
It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are. Gillian Armstrong
suddenly
I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day. Elizabeth Warren
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Charles Caleb Colton
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. Charles Caleb Colton
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Charles Caleb Colton
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. Charles Caleb Colton
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. Charles Caleb Colton
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. Charles Caleb Colton
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. Charles Dickens
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. Charles Caleb Colton
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race. Charles Caleb Colton
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. Charles Caleb Colton
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings. Charles Caleb Colton
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race. Charles Dickens
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. Charles Dickens
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race. Charles Caleb Colton
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race. Charles Dickens
winning giving soul
You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power. Charles Spurgeon
winning men fire
Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves. Charles Spurgeon
winning soul pearls
The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul Charles Spurgeon
winning men gambling
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win Charles Spurgeon
winning soul glorifying-god
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly. Charles Spurgeon
winning victory sides
We are not alarmed because Satan hinders us, for it is a proof that we are on the Lord’s side, and are doing the Lord’s work, and in his strength we shall win the victory, and triumph over our adversary. Charles Spurgeon
winning actors prize
Parts win prizes, not actors. Alan Rickman