Sunday, February 28, 2010

Great quote on consultants

A consultant is a man who knows 49 ways to make love but doesn't know any women.-James Dent(1928-1992),U.S.humorist

A couple of interesting quotes for Sunday

1.Pornography is about dominance.Erotica is about mutuality.-Gloria Steinem
2.It is not a disgrace to fail.Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.-Charles F.Kettering

Two great quotes

1.Blame someone else and get on with your life.-Alan Woods
2.We start with gifts.Merit comes from what we make of them.-Jean Toomer

Thursday, February 25, 2010

A couple more interesting quotes for Thursday

1.Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.-Bruce Oldfield(1950-),English fashion designer
2.We cannot change anything until we accept it.Condemnation does not liberate,it oppresses.-Carl Jung
2.Everything is complicated.If that were not so,life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.-Wallace Stevens

Three interesting quotes

1.My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.-Errol Flynn(1909-1959),U.S.(Australian-born actor)
2.Think like a man of action;act like a man of thought.-Henri Bergson
3.The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.-Robert Benchley

Good quote by Ovid

Luck affects everything.Let your hook always be cast.In the stream where you least expect it,there will be fish.-Ovid

A couple of good quotes

1.A good model can advance fashion by ten years.-Yves Saint Laurent
2.It is not bigotry to be certain we are right;but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.-G.K.Chesterton

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Two interesting quotes

1.The most beautiful thing in the world is,of course,the world itself.-Wallace Stevens
2.Whatever gets in the way of the work is the work.-Poet Jason Shinder

Thought-provoking quote by Cyril Connolly

As we grow older we discover that what seemed at the time an absorbing interest or preoccupation which we had taken up and thrown over,was in reality an appetite or passion which had swept over us and passed on.-Cyril Connolly

Great quote by Nancy Astor

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything---or nothing.-Nancy Astor

Great quote by George Arliss

I eat nothing I can pat.-George Arliss

Good website on lost radio episodes and lost television history and recovery of lost audiovisual history

Monday, February 22, 2010

Three great blogs or websites

Great website for lovers of art deco-A must-visit blog

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Good websites or blogs for writers

Two great quotes for Sunday

1.Play by the rules,but be ferocious.-Phil Knight
2.No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.-Frederick Banting(1891-1941),Canadian scientist

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Great quote by I.F.Stone

If you live long enough,the venerability factor creeps in;first,you get accused of things you never did,and later,credited for virtues you never had.-I.F.Stone

Interesting website for miscellaneous tips

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Great quote by Jesse Owens

Awards become corroded,friends gather no dust.-Jesse Owens

A triplet of interesting quotes

1.Confusion is always the most honest response.-Marty Indik
2.No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.-Susan B.Anthony
3.While there are no perfect families,there are perfect family moments.-Canadian journalist Judith Timson

Monday, February 15, 2010

Another interesting blog

Three interesting blogs

Three insightful quotes

1.Liberty for the wolves is death for the lambs.-Isaiah Berlin
2.Once you board the thieves' ship,you can only go forward.-Old Beijing saying
3.For me,it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion,however satisfying and reassuring.-Carl Sagan

Two oddly interesting websites

Great quote on power

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.-US author Alice Walker

A triplet of interesting quotes

1.Everything happens for a reason;if you can't find a reason for something,there's a reason for that.-Chris Levi
2.The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.-Claudia Taylor Johnson(1912-2007),U.S. stateswoman
3.If two men agree on everything,you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.-Lyndon B.Johnson(1908-1973),U.S politician and president

Two good quotes on love after Valentine's day

1.Hate leaves ugly scars,but love leaves beautiful ones.-Author Mignon McLaughlin
2.Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.-Mignon McLaughlin

Five good quotes for Monday

1.Beyond the mountains,more mountains.-Haitian proverb
2.Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls-Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.-Warren Buffett
3.A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.-Jules Henry
4.My mind is my own church.-Thomas Paine
5.Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.-Franz Kafka

Monday, February 08, 2010

Some good blogs

Two thought-provoking quotes

1.Defining myself,as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.-Carol Moseley Braun
2.Some people see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot,others as a cow to be milked,but few see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.-Winston Churchill

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Four great quotes

1.To be a successful gambler you have to have a complete disregard for money.-Doyle Brunson(b.1933),U.S.card player
2.I guess if luck were involved,I'd win every hand.-Phil Hellmuth(b.1964),US card player
3.Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.-Rebecca West(1892-1983),Irish writer
4.I think housework is the reason most women go to office.-Heloise Cruse(1919-77),US columnist

Two great quotes for Sunday

1.Credit is a system whereby a person who cannot pay gets another person who cannot pay to guarantee that he can pay.-Charles Dickens
2.No great science was discovered in the spirit of humility.-Heinz Pagels

Great quote by Abraham Lincoln

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?
Four.Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.-Abraham Lincoln

Friday, February 05, 2010

Three interesting websites

Three great quotes

1.A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.-Herbert Victor Prochnow
2.Strong people have strong weaknesses.-Peter Drucker
3.Dogma is long on belief and short on understanding.-Bruce Thimmig

Good trivia question on actress Lillian Gish

Which was the only film that actress Lillian Gish directed?
Answer.'Remodeling Her Husband'(1920).
This film starred Dorothy Gish,James Rennie,Marie Burke and Frank Kingdon
This film is sadly presumed lost.No known prints of this film exist.I hope very much that a complete print of this film is soon discovered.

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Two more good websites for vegans

Interesting website of a philosopher

Insightful quote on politics

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.-Henri Queuille

Interesting quote by Canadian hockey player

I was so excited on my first start,I would have made coffee nervous.-Dan Bouchard(b.195o),Canadian hockey player

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

An interesting blog for pet lovers

A duo of interesting quotes

1.Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.-Sue Grafton (1940-),U.S.author
2.In war,there are no unwounded soldiers.-José Narosky

Great French quote I heard on TV

Les excuses sont la richesse des pauvres.-I heard this quote on a French Tv station

Two great quotes

1.The cruelest lies are often told in silence.-Robert Louis Stevenson
2.The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.-Woody Allen