Two great blogs

1 http://optimisticvoices.blogspot.com
2 http://wearebookworms.blogspot.com

A trio of good quotes

1.Dancers are both athletes and artists.-Margot Fonteyn
2.You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.-Sol Lewitt
3.A career is a series of comebacks.-Ricky Nelson

Five great quotes for Friday

1.Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.-Bill Maher
2.The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance,born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.-Rachel Carson,marine biologist and author
3.Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.-Publilius Syrus
4.Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.-Edgar Cayce
5.Canada must be considered the Vichyssoise of nations-cold,half-French,and difficult to stir.-Stuart Keate

Three great quotes

1.Arguments are to be avoided:they are always vulgar and often convincing.-Oscar Wilde
2.Life is the flower of which love is the honey.-Victor Hugo
3.Be courteous to all,but intimate with few,and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.-George Washington

A quintet of interesting quotes

1.The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.-Richard Bach
2.The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.-Horace Walpole
3.Aerodynamically,the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly,but the bumblebee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.-Mary Kay Ash
4.Marvelous Truth,confront us at every turn,in every guise.-Denise Levertov
5.When ideas fail,words come in very handy.-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Four great quotes

1.You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.-Cecil Baxter
2.Do not men die fast enough without being destroyed by one another?-Francois Fenelon
3.A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.-Doug Larson
4.Nobody really cares if you're miserable so you might as well be happy.-Cynthia Nelms

79th list of 10 French songs you love

1.Les Comédiens-Charles Aznavour
2.La Fille à Aimer(1971)-Mike Brant.(You love this song)
3.Embrasse-moi-Jacques Salvail
4.Reste avec moi-Jacques Salvail
5.Angela mon amour-Les Alexandrins
6.Jamais je ne vivrai sans toi-Margot Lefebvre
7.Il faut sourire-Karo
8.Le Secret du bonheur-Francois et Liette
9.Le Temps Des Lilas-Tony Massarelli(This song sounds to you like a French version of the Tom Jones hit song 'LOVE ME TONIGHT.')
10.Le Bonheur(1963)-Rosita Salvador(You first listened to this song on Saturday ,July 11,2009 on You Tube on earbuds and loved it ).

A duo of good quotes

1.The future is the past returning through another gate.-Arnold Glasgow
2.Success is a lousy teacher.It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.-Bill Gates

Two good quotes

1.We are here and it is now.Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.-H.L.Mencken
2.There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.-Chester Bowles

78th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Il fait trè`s beau pour travailler(1964)-Les Parisiennes
2.Ces mots qu'on oublie un jour-Dick Rivers
3.Mister Pitiful(1966)-Dick Rivers
4.Ne raccroche pas(1963)-Sheila(This song is a French version of The Orlons song 'DON'T HANG UP' from 1962)
5.Le Sifflet des Copains(1963)-Sheila
6.Papa t'es plus dans le coup(1963)-Sheila
7.Elle-Didier Barbevilien
8.C'est moi-C.Jérome
9.J'Habite En France-Michel Sardou
10.Pardonne moi si je t'aime-Céline Lomez

Two great quotes

1.A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice,even if it's a whisper.-Barry Neil Kaufman
2.The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.-John Maynard Keynes

A couple of good quotes

1.As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.-William James
2.Utility is our national shibboleth:the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother,statistics.-Edward Dahlberg

Five great quotes

1.All sorrows can be borne,if you put them into a story.-Isak Dinesen
2.Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.-William Wordsworth
3.Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages:convenient,huge,hard to avoid,superficially friendly,and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.-Mark Abley(b.1955,Montreal author and journalist for THE MONTREAL GAZETTE).
4.The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.-Oscar Wilde
5.If one really loves nature,one can find beauty everywhere.-Vincent Van Gogh

Seven great quotes

1.Innovation:One cannot forever be innovating.I want to create classics.-Coco Chanel(1883-1971)
2.Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.-Primo Levi,Italian author.
3.If people never did silly things,nothing intelligent would ever get done.-Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.Science may be learned by rote,but wisdom not.-Laurence Sterne
5.Manifest plainness,embrace simplicity ,reduce selfishness;have few desires.-Lao-Tzu
6.Normal is not something to aspire to.It's something to get away from.-Jodie Foster
7.The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.-Ralph Nader(b.1934)