Sunday, December 30, 2007

A few websites I love and that I visit often

1www.silentera.com
2.www.wordspy.com
3.www.foodreference.com
4.www.suediaz.com
5.www.bookreporter.com
6 www.wikipedia.org
7.www.brainyquote.com
8.www.humorscope.com
9.www.horoscope.com
10.http://montanajones.blogspot.com

Great dance song that I cannot find on any CD in the music store

While watching the film ASTERIX IN AMERICA(1994),I heard a superb dance song on the soundtrack by Right Said Fred titled 'Dance,Dance,Dance(Under the moon).I read the closing credits to verify the name of the artist.I cannot find this song on any Right Said Fred CD or any other compilation CD in any music store.I wish this song was easily available in music stores.

A Bucketful of quotes and proverbs

1.Beware of a man of one book.-Latin proverb
2.Treasure this day,and treasure yourself.Truly,neither will ever happen again.-Ray Bradbury
3.Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing on one's own sunshine.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.A nail is driven out by another nail.Habit is overcome by habit.-Desiderius Erasmus
5.A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.To live is to be slowly born.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
6.Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
7.People seldom do what they believe in.They do what is convenient,then repent.-Bob Dylan
8.Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.-Will Durant

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Nine great quotes and proverbs

1.Worry is a misuse of imagination.-Dan Zadra
2.Passion makes us desperate.-V.C.Andrews
3.The insane,on occasion,are not without their charms.-Kurt Vonnegut,THE SIRENS OF TITAN
4.There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.-Beverly Sills
5.Gems are polished by rubbing;just as men are made brilliant by trials.-Chinese proverb
6.Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on Earth.It has expanded our knowledge and our power but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.-J.William Fulbright
7.An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.A pessimist stays to make sure the old one leaves.-Bill Vaughan
8.If you think women are the weaker sex,try pulling the blankets back to your side.-Stuart Turner
9.If you are afraid of being lonely,don't try to be right.-Jules Renard

An addition of fresh quotes and proverbs

1.Ask thy purse what thou should spend.-Scotts proverb
2.We are what we think.All that we are arises with our thoughts.With our thoughts we make the world.-The Buddha
3.Greed comes out into one's heart to steal peace of mind.-Chinese proverb
4.We all have many gifts that we've never opened.It's time to open some of yours.-Dan Zadra
5.One who secures the good of others has secured one's own.-Chinese proverb
6.The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon,but only hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.-Thomas Henry Huxley
7.Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism.It is not the conviction that something will turn out well,but the certainty that something makes sense,regardless of how it turns out.-Vaclav Havel
8.That is happiness-to be dissolved into something complete and great.-Willa Cather
9.Be happy while you're living,For you're a long time dead.-Scottish proverb
10.National research conducted for my book THE MILLIONAIRE ZONE
found that,among millionaires 'perseverance'was the No.1 key to success.-Jennifer Openshaw
11.Money costs too much.-Lew Archer in Ross Macdonald's novel THE GOODBYE LOOK
12.Being rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.-Belgian philosopher Raoul Vaneigem
13.Money's a convenience.It lets me hire people to do things I'd be wasting my time at.I was underpaid for the first half of my life;I don't mind being overpaid for the second half.-Pierre Berton
14.Success is the side-effect of your personal dedication to a course greater than yourself.-Victor Frankl

Sunday, December 23, 2007

An interesting addition of quotes and proverbs

1.If you would be loved,love and be lovable.-Benjamin Franklin
2.Ask the experienced rather than the learned.-Arabic proverb
3.What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?-Henry David Thoreau
4.Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.-Maya Angelou
5.The best tacticians are never impulsive;the best leaders are never arrogant.-Chinese proverb
6.Mishaps are like knives,that either serve us or cut us,as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.-James Russell Lowell
7.The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.-Julia Ward Howe
8.I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.-Ann Richards

Saturday, December 22, 2007

A spoonful of quotes and proverbs

1.In a way winter is the real thing,the time when the inner things happen,the resurge of nature.-Edna O'Brien
2.When you think at that moment that it is possible-then the magic starts.-Siegfried
3.When we are tired,we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.-Friedrich Nietzsche
4.Be assured that any worthwhile action will create change and attract support.-Philip Marvin
5.If you don't know where you are going,any road will take you there.-Lewis Carroll
6.Ability in itself is nothing when denied opportunity.-Chinese proverb
7.Wheresoever you go,go with all your heart.-Confucius
8.You are free to choose,but the choices you make today will determine what you will have,be and do in the tomorrow of your life.-Zig Ziglar
9.The best tactitians are neverimpulsive;the best leaders are never arrogant.-Chinese proverb

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Five great quotes or proverbs

1.Malice is only another name for mediocrity.-Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh(1904-67)
2.Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.-Rabindranath Tagore
3.Can't I ask a rhetorical question?Well,can I?
4.Some writers take to drink,others take to audiences.-Gore Vidal
5.It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek---Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.-Marlon Brando

Monday, December 17, 2007

Four great quotes or proverbs

1.When you have no choice,mobilize the spirit of courage.-Jewish proverb
2.An idle story can quickly become fact in the mouths of hundreds.-Chinese proverb
3.We live,not as we wish to,but as we can.-Menander
4.When you are thirsty,it is too late to think about digging a well.-Japanese proverb

Friday, December 14, 2007

An addition of quotes and proverbs

1.No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.-Samuel Goldwyn
2.When walking through a melon patch,don't adjust your sandals.-Chinese proverb
3.Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.-Truman Capote
4.A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all your life.-Maxwell Maltz
5.When friends ask,there is no tomorrow.-Miscellaneous proverb
6.Do not remain in the open when the enemy is concealed.-Chinese proverb
7.Unless the bastards have the courage to give you unqualified praise,I say ignore them.-John Steinbeck
8.We find a little of everything in our memory;it is a sort of pharmacy,a sort of clinical laboratory ,in which our groping hand may come to rest,now on a sedative drug,now on a dangerous poison.-Marcel Proust
9.What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?-Dr.Robert Schuller
10.Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day.-Chinese proverb
11.When fire and water are at war,it is the fire that loses.-Spanish proverb

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Eight great quotes or proverbs

1.He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.-Confucius
2.Unhurt people are not much good in the world.-Enid Starkie(1897-1970)
3.One day it will finally dawn on you that anything is possible--that nothing is too good to be true.-Kobi Yamada
4.Sarcasm:the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5.A Democrat sees the glass of water as half full.A Republican looks at the same glass and wonders who the hell drank half his glass of water.-Jeff Cesario
6.Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance.-H.L.Mencken
7.Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.-Spanish proverb
8.Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what each man wishes,that he also believes to be true.-Demosthenes

Friday, December 07, 2007

Three great quotes

1.Just do what must be done.This may not be happiness,but it is greatness.-George Bernard Shaw
2.The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your forces:loses your time,blears the impression of your character----Do your thing and I shall know you.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,1839
3.Laughter is free,legal,has no calories,no cholesterol,no preservatives,and is absolutely safe.-Dale Irvin

Thursday, December 06, 2007

A dropping of more quotes or proverbs

1.To know and to act are one and the same.-Samurai proverb
2.There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act,where your heart is in it,than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.-Mark Twain
3.Time makes more converts than reason.-Thomas Paine
4.To want to forget something is to remember it.-French proverb
5.With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.-Chinese proverb
6.When you want to test the depths of a stream,don't use both feet.-Chinese proverb
7.To a friend's house the road is never long.-Danish proverb

Saturday, December 01, 2007

A Whirlwind of quotes and proverbs

1.Three Spaniards,four opinions.-Spanish proverb
2.A weapon has no loyalty but to the one who wields it.-Chinese proverb
3.The best smell is bread;the best saver,salt;the best love ,that of children.-George Herbert
4.If 50 is the new 40,is 20 the new 10?-Manish Patwari(I had this published in The Globe And Mail,Nov 5,2007)
5.Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.-Robert Frost