Monday, June 30, 2008

22nd list of 10 French songs you love

1.Le Petit Roi-Jean Pierre Ferland
2.Bonnie and Clyde-Serge Gainsbourg
3.J'ai marche pour une nation-Michel Pagliaro
4.C'est Extra(1969)-Leo Ferre
5.Oh!Lady Mary-Jean Nichol
6.Le Sable et la mer-Ginette Reno and Jacques Boulanger
7.Je ne pense qu'a toi(1969)-Bruce Huard
8.A t'Aimer(1969)-Michel Pagliaro
9.Quand tu liras Cette Lettre(1968)-Stephane (This is a French version of the 1967 Engelbert Humperdinck hit song 'THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING.'
10.Ce n'est pas rien (1971)-Julien Clerc

Some more interesting blogs

Three great quotes

1.In politics,absurdity is not a handicap.-Napoleon Bonaparte
2.How beautiful the leaves grow old.How full of light and color are their last days.-John Burroughs
3.If everyone gives one thread,the poor man will have a shirt.-Russian proverb

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Four great websites for the environmentalist

Great quote by Albert Einstein

Only who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master.For this reason mastery demands all of a person.-Albert Einstein

Six great quotes and proverbs

1.The foundation of justice is good faith.-Cicero
2.Friends may come and go,but enemies accumulate.-Thomas Jones
3.When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations,the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.-Dresden James
4.No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.-John Stuart Mill
5.Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.-Maria Schell
6.He who asks is a fool for five minutes,but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.-Chinese proverb

Even more websites or blogs about the environment

More websites about the environment

Saturday, June 28, 2008

More green blogs and websites on the environment

Some great green blogs and websites-for environmentalists

Blogs and websites on gossip

21st list of 10 French songs you live

1.Quelques mots d'amour-Michel Sardou
2.L'Orage-France Gall
3.Bebe Requin-France Gall
4.Qu'elle disait(1983)-Alain Barriere
5.Avec Tout Mon Amour(1968)-Song by Les Miladys.(This is a French version of the 1968 Lulu
hit song 'TO SIR WITH LOVE')
6.Cette annee la-Claude Francois
7.Je t'aime a la folie-Serge Lama
8.Viens Tout Connaitre-Dick Rivers
9.L'Etoile d'Amerique-Claude Eveillee
10.Un jour,un jour(1967)-Theme song of Expo 67 by Michele Richard

Some great websites and blogs for environmentalists

Some interesting blogs about slow food

Friday, June 27, 2008

Five great quotes and proverbs

1.I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.-Charlotte Bronte
2.Don't let them tame you!-Isadora Duncan
3.The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow,he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.-Eric Berne
4.Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship.It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together.It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.-Robertson Davies
5.Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts,patients who have nothing better to do with their lives
often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship increasingly the enormity of the offences committed against them.
-U.S.psychiatrist Thomas Szasz

Good websites and blogs about the environment

1 www.alternativeconsumer.com
2 http://climatechangeaction.blogspot.com
3 http://consciousearth.blogspot.com
4 www.eco-chick.com
5 www.ecorazzi.com
6 http://ecostreet.com/blog/
7 www.enviroblog.org
8 http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com
9 www.ewg.org -Environmental Working Group
10 http://greenbrooklyn.com
11 http://greenbuildblog.com
12 www.greenbuildingsnyc.com
13 www.greengirlsglobal.com
14 http://greenlagirl.com
15 http://greenloop.blogspot.com
16 www.greenoptions.com
17 www.greenthinkers.org
18 www.grist.org
19 www.lazyenvironmentalist.com
20 www.oneatlantic.net
21 http://moon-pie.blogspot.com
22 www.practicalenvironmentalist.com
23 www.ramsayhome.com
24 www.savingsimply.com
25 www.stylewillsaveus.com
26 www.triplepundit.com
27 www.worldchanging.com
28 www.worstedwitch.com
29 www.wbcsd.org -World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Some great national blogs

Three great websites

Great website for vegetarians

www.worldvegetarianday.org is a website worth visiting.

Three great quotes

1.Art is not a mirror held up to reality,but a hammer in which to shape it.-Bertolt Brecht
2.What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.-Will Rogers
3.Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.Great works are performed not by strength,but
perseverance.-Samuel Johnson

A dozen great quotes and proverbs

1.Art is not a mirror held up to reality,but a hammer in which to shapre it.-Bertolt Brecht
2.Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights.Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.-Larry Flynt
3.Between stimulus and response,there is a space.In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response.In our response lies our growth and freedom.-Victor Frankl
4.None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.-Samuel Johnson
5.There must always be a struggle between a father and son,while one aims at power and the other at independence.-Samuel Johnson
6.Communication is the universal solvent.-L.Ron Hubbard
7.Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
8.Money talks,and in marriage sometimes it dictates.-John K.Galbraith
9.Money:power at its most liquid.-Mason Cooley
10.The future influences the present just as much as the past.-Friedrich Nietzsche
11.Forget injuries,never forget kindnesses.-Chinese proverb
12.In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.-Unknown

Ten great quotes or proverbs

1.Go and wake up your cook.-Arab proverb
2.A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ''individuality'' is the key to success.-Robert Orben
3.I don't wait for moods.You accomplish nothing if you do that.Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.-Pearl Buck
4.Greatness lies not in being strong,but in the right use of strength.-Henry Ward Beecher
5.Democracy is when the indigent,and not the men of property,are the rulers.-Aristotle
6.The great books are not merely a record of civilization,but the most potent force in the world
today.-Mortimer Adler
7.The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.-John Adams
8.I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.-Diane Ackerman
9.Nobody picks on a strong man.-Charles Atlas
10.The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.-Steven Biko.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Great website for muscle-building exercise guides and nutrition info

Visit the website www.shapefit.com .The website offers a lot of exercise guides for those wanting to build muscles or six-pack abs.A lot of useful nutritional info is also included in the website.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Interesting websites for environmentalists and the like

Great website for idealists

www.howtosavetheworldforfree.com is a website worth visiting for idealists and all people hoping to make of this world a much better place.

Five great quotes and proverbs

1.Too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.-Robert F.Kennedy
2.Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.-Jewish proverb
3.I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.-Lisa Alther in SKINFLICKS(1976)
4.The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.-Winston Churchill
5.Women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.-Ellen Glasgow(1873-1945),American novelist

Monday, June 23, 2008

Some blogs from Idaho and the Northwest

Four great quotes and proverbs

1.Charity sees the need,not the cause.-German proverb
2.Time will explain it all.He is a talker ,and needs no questioning before he speaks.-Euripides
3.Do it now.It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.-Thomas Guthrie
4.The past is never dead----It's not even past.-William Faulkner

20th list of 10 French songs you love

1.A Demain Mon Darling-Renee Martel
2.L'Amitie-Francoise Hardy
3.Comment Te Dire Adieu-Francoise Hardy
4.Vivre Au Soleil(1971)-Michele Richard
5.La Mer(1971)-Alain Barriere
6.Au Chant de l'Alouette(1971)-Les Karrik
7.Prends Ma Main(1971)-Renee Martel
8.Pourtant-Roch Voisin
9.Non,je n'ai rien oublie-Charles Aznavour
10.La Mer(1947)-Charles Trenet

Saturday, June 21, 2008

19th list of 10 French songs you love

1.Les Millionnaires du Dimanche(1967)-Enrico Macias
2.Il faut Savoir-Charles Aznavour
3.Discomotion-Michele Torr
4.Un Baiser de Toi-Robert DeMontigny
5.Les petites femmes de pigalle(1973)-Serge Lamas
6.Vivre En Amour(1976)-Luc Cousineau
7.Femme est la Nuit-Dalida
8.Tout peut recommencer(1968)-Alain Barriere
9.L'Essentiel-Ginette Reno
10.C'est Bon La Vie (1967)-Nana Mouskouri(This is a version of the song THE 59TH BRIDGE STREET SONG)

Three great quotes and proverbs

1.Better be quarreling than lonesome.-Irish proverb
2.Life is easier to take than you think;all that is necessary is to accept the impossible,do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.-Kathleen Norris
3.One of the great victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.-Josh Billings

Friday, June 20, 2008

Some blogs about Montana

Five great quotes

1.The future is no place to place your better days.-Dave Matthews
2.Once the grammar has been learned writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.-Beryl Bainbridge
3.The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view,I think.All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.-Dutch painter Willem de Kooning(1904-97)
4.Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.-Ruth E.Renkel
5.I am never bored anywhere:being bored is an insult to oneself.-Jules Renard

Nine great quotes and proverbs

1.At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend.-Arab proverb
2.Death is not extinguishing the light----it is letting the lamp go out----because the dawn has come.-Rabindranath Tagore
3.Books,it has always seemed to me,must be read with passion or they are hardly worth reading at all.-Michael Dirda
4.In summer,the song sings itself.-William Carlos Williams
5.Experience is a good school,but the fees are high.-Heinrich Heine
6.It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying;it's separating himself from all the others.-Helen Rowland
7.I haven't been to sleep for over a year.That's why I go to bed early.One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.-Evelyn Waugh in THE DECLINE AND FALL
8.But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.-Albert Camus
9.Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.-Erich Fromm in MAN FOR HIMSELF(1947)

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Some great blogs and websites

Another interesting blog

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Great website on interior decoration

Visit the website www.apartmenttherapy.com for great ideas and tips on interior decoration and space management.

Some great blogs on food

1.www.foodbuzz.com
2.www.gabbygourmet.com
3.http://culinary-colorado.blogspot.com
4.http://habeasbrulee.com
5.www.slashfood.com
6.www.gourmetsleuth.com
7.www.avenuefood.com
8.www.culinary-colorado.com
9.www.cookingforengineers.com
10.www.curdnerds.com-Blog on cheese
11.www.denvergreenchili.com
12.http://milehigheater.blogspot.com
13.http://yumblebus.com
14.http://feistyfoodie.blogspot.com

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Eight great quotes and proverbs

1.Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind.-The Rolling Stones,RUBY TUESDAY.
2.When you call my name,I salivate like Pavlov's dog.-Line from The Rolling Stones,BITCH
3.To know all is not to forgive all.It is to despise everybody.-Quentin Crisp
4.We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface,having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.-U.S.academic Allan Bloom(1930-92)
5.Meetings---are rather like cocktail parties.You don't want to go,but you're cross not to be asked.-Jilly Cooper in HOW TO SURVIVE FROM NINE TO FIVE.
6.Fairness is what justice really is.-Potter Stewart
7.Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do.Bad manners are better than no manners at all.-Flannery O'Connor
8.Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.-Rebecca West

Great website for lovers of pop music trivia

Lovers of pop music trivia should visit the website www.songfacts.com for a great time.

18th list of 10 French songs you love

1.Les Plaisirs Demodes-Charles Aznavour
2.Arizona-Eddy Mitchell
3.Mourir d'aimer-Charles Aznavour
4.Quelques mots d'amour(1979)-Michel Berger
5.Dans les Yeux d'Emilie-Joe Dassin
6.Ce Serait la fin du Monde-Donald Lautrec
7.Pardonne-moi ce caprice d'enfant-Mireille Mathieu
8.Tu Sais je t'aime(You Know I Love You)(1976)-Shake
9.Le Chemin Pour San Jose-Ginette Reno
10.Toute La Pluie Tombe Sur Moi-Sacha Distel

Monday, June 09, 2008

A slew of interesting quotes

1.To set a lofty example is the richest bequest you can leave behind you.-S.Smiles
2.Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions,new aspirations,new efforts,new vision.-Papyrus
3.Every person who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.-Bulwer-Lytton
4.Shun idleness.It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.-Voltaire
5.It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self-examiner.-Shaftesbury
6.You will never ''find'' time for anything.If you want time,you must make it.-Charles Bixton
7.Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.Every one must be challenged.-Maltbie Babcock

Eight great quotes for Monday

1.I'm not sure I want public opinion on my side----I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.-Bethania McKenstry
2.Idealism is what precedes experience;cynicism is what follows.-David A.Wolf
3.Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.-Rachel Carson
4.Take the time to stop and be the flowers.-Albert Hoffman,the Swiss scientist who discovered LSD and lived to age 102
5.Dost thou love life?Then do not squander time,for that is the stuff life is made of.-Benjamin Franklin
6.No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.-Fran Lebowitz
7.What you don't see with your eyes,don't invent with your mouth.-Jewish proverb
8.When a person tells you ,''I'll think it over and let you know'-you know.-Olin Miller

Saturday, June 07, 2008

Eight great quotes and proverbs

1.It takes a lot of time to get experience,and once you have it you ought to go on using it.-Benjamin M.Duggar
2.If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors,we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.-Charles B.Newcomb
3.I can give you a six-word formula for success:''Think things through-then follow through.''-Edward Rickenbacker
4.In the democratic way of life it is not 'the best things in life are free,' but rather 'the best things in life are worth working for!''-Ruth M.Leverton
5.A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.-Beecher
6.You don't get ulcers from what you eat,but from what's eating you.-Albert Cliffe
7.Do not let yourself be tainted with barren skepticism.-Louis Pasteur
8.Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted.Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.-Hans Margolius

Nine more good quotes or proverbs

1.It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.-William Cobbett
2.The private and personal blessings we enjoy,the blessings of immunity,safeguard,liberty and integrity,deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.-Jeremy Taylor
3.The more an idea is developed,the more concise becomes its expression;the more a tree is pruned,the better is the fruit.-Alfred Bougeart
4.We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.-French proverb
5.We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.-French proverb
6.What can't be cured,must be endured.-French proverb
7.I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.-Garrison Keillor
8.Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates.Compatibility was not a big issue,nor,of course,was there any tension over who would
control the remote.-Barbara Ehrenreich in THE SNARLING CITIZEN:ESSAYS(1995)

Eight great quotes and proverbs

1.When we are flat on our backs,there is no way to look but up.-Roger W.Babson
2.Scientists are explorers,philosophers are tourists.-Richard Feynman,Nobel Laureate
3.Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.-Scottish proverb
4.It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am,because the world could use a few people like that.-Alan Alda
5.We inherit nothing truly,but what our actions make us worthy of.-George Chapman
6.What one knows is,in youth,of little moment;they know enough who know how to learn.-Henry Adams(1838-1918)
7.Reason has never failed men.Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.-William Allen White
8.In order to really enjoy a dog,one doesn't merely try to train him to be self-human.The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.-U.S.essayist Edward Hoagland

Monday, June 02, 2008

Ten great quotes

1.Money always implies the promise of magic,but the effect is much magnified when,as now,people have lost faith in everything else.-Lewis Lapham
2.Nature provides a free lunch,but only if we control our appetites.-William Ruckelshaus
3.To change and change for the better are two different things.-German proverb
4.When you betray somebody else,you also betray yourself.-Isaac Bashevis Singer
5.To deceive a diplomat speak the truth,he has no experience with it.-Greek proverb
6.Empty pockets never held anyone back.Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.-Norman Vincent Peale
7.Vision without action is a daydream.Action without vision is a nightmare.-Japanese proverb
8.Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.-Jorge Luis Borges
9.The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein;it rejects it.-P.B.Medawar
10.Two watermelons cannot be held under one arm.-Turkish proverb