"The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear"

“They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.”

“I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.”

“Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.”

“Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.”

“I really don't have a guilty pleasure.”

Source : "Meet the Lawmaker Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), 25th District". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. April 4, 2011.

“Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.”

“I struggled with carpal tunnel for about 15 years to the point where I was going anywhere from acupuncture to chiropractor to actually getting a shot or two of cortisone to dipping my hand in a bucket of ice water during a show to buying a can of air. You turn it upside down and spray it on your wrist to get the frozen aspect of it and hopefully it wakes your hand up so I could get the feeling back in my hand.”

Source : Source: www.alternativenation.net

“It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity like 'Om Namah Shivaya', 'Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya', 'Om Namo Narayanaya', 'Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare', 'Om Shivashaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha' or even the names of Christ, Allah or Buddha.”