Friday, October 29, 2010
A Hot dog is:''A cartridge filled with the sweepings of abattoirs.''-H.L.Mencken(1880-1956)
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1.A hero is someone we can admire without apology.-Kitty Kelley(1942-),US journalist and biographer
2.Power is getting others to do one's will.-Garry Wills(1934-),U.S. author and historian
2.Power is getting others to do one's will.-Garry Wills(1934-),U.S. author and historian
Rice bran oil you used
In October 2010,you bought and finished consuming a 750 g of Alpha Plus Rice bran oil.It was delicious,very light,and had a low smoke point.It is worth recommending this brand to others.Rice bran oil is very rich in Vitamin E and is great for frying and stir-fries.
Quote by Charles Dudley Warner
We are half-ruined by conformity,but we should be wholly ruined without it.-Charles Dudley Warner(1829-1900),American essayist and novelist
A couple of good quotes
1.Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.-Lord Raglan
2.We never really grow up;we only learn how to act in public.-Bryan White
2.We never really grow up;we only learn how to act in public.-Bryan White
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Great quote by Edgar Morin
Humanity must stop behaving like a Genghis Khan of the solar system and think of itself---as nature's co-pilot.-Edgar Morin,French sociologist
Great quote by Sultannah
Those who sit on the fence only end up with splinters in their bums.-Sultannah
Great quote by Brigid Brophy
Whenever people say 'we musn't be sentimental',you can take it they are about to do something cruel.And if they add 'We must be realistic',they mean they are going to make money out of it.-Brigid Brophy
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Great quote by Lord Brabazon
I take the view,and always have,that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.-Lord Brabazon
Great quote by F.Scott Fitzgerald
If you're strong enough,there are no precedents.-Novelist F.Scott Fitzgerald
A couple of good quotes
1.Words are a form of action,capable of influencing change.-Author Ingrid Bengis
2.One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.-Rita Mae Brown
2.One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.-Rita Mae Brown
Monday, October 25, 2010
Great quote on immorality
Immorality:the morality of those who are having a better time.-H.L Mencken(1880-1956),U.S.journalist
Quote on marriage
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.-French writer André Maurois(1885-1967)
Sunday, October 24, 2010
A couple of good quotes
1.As you grow older,you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.-Zachary Scott.
2.If you don't like something,change it;if you can't change it,change the way you think about it.-Mary Engelbreit
2.If you don't like something,change it;if you can't change it,change the way you think about it.-Mary Engelbreit
Friday, October 22, 2010
Quote by Milton Berle with which I do not always agree
There's no such thing as a new joke.All jokes are public domain.It's not the gag,it's how you deliver it.-Milton Berle
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Quote on lobsters
If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster,people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.-George Carlin
Quote by Edna Ferber
Big doesn't necessarily mean better.Sunflowers aren't better than violets.-Edna Ferber
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Great quote by John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.-John Wooden(1910-2010),U.S.basketball coach
Quote by Martin Mull
The trouble with jogging is that ice falls out of your glass.-Martin Mull(1943-),U.S.comedian and actor
Quote by Jane Fonda
Women are not forgiven for aging.Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.-Jane Fonda(1937-),U.S.actress
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Interesting quote by Mignon McLaughlin
Grasp your opportunities,no matter how poor your health;nothing is worse for your health than boredom.-Mignon McLaughlin,THE SECOND NEUROTIC'S NOTEBOOK.
Quote by Jodi Picoult
There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up,first there's got to be someone worth saving.-Jodi Picoult
Three great quotes
1.Always do what you are afraid to do.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2.Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period,but wakes up during adversity.-Jean Jacques Rousseau
3.True love stories never have endings.-Richard Bach
2.Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period,but wakes up during adversity.-Jean Jacques Rousseau
3.True love stories never have endings.-Richard Bach
Friday, October 15, 2010
A couple of interesting quotes
1.When heaven breaks,who fixes it?-Jodi Picoult
2.Trust is often a misplaced emotion.Like love.-Maha Mondragon
2.Trust is often a misplaced emotion.Like love.-Maha Mondragon
Great quote by Leon Uris
How often in life is it that we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.-Leon Uris
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Great quote by Florence Nightingale
I attribute my success to this-that I never gave or took an excuse.-Florence Nightingale(1820-1910),British nurse and educator
Great quote by Robert Brault
Enjoy the little things,for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.-Robert Brault,veteran U.S. freelance writer
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A couple of good quotes
1.All men have crimes,and most of them are hidden.-Maxwell Anderson
2.The body contains the life story just as much as the brain.-Edna O'Brien
2.The body contains the life story just as much as the brain.-Edna O'Brien
Saturday, October 09, 2010
Portuguese olive oil brand you finished consuming in September 2010
In September 2010,you finished consuming a 750 ml bottle of Ferma extra-virgin olive oil ,imported from Portugal.It was pretty good.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Quote by Nadezha Mandelstam
A person with inner freedom and memory,and fear is that reed,that twig that changes the direction of a rushing river.-Nadezha Mandelstam
Good quote by John Ruskin
What we think,or what we know or what we believe in is,in the end,of little consequence.The only consequence is what we do.-John Ruskin(1819-1900),British art critic and writer
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Quote by Gaston Bachelard
Creative reverie animates the nerves of the future.-French philosopher Gaston Bachelard
Another quote by Winston Churchill
We shape our buildings;thereafter they shape us.-Winston Churchill
Great Mark Twain quote on the Bible
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me,it is the parts that I do understand.-Mark Twain
Quote by Winston Churchill
The grass grows green over the battlefield but over the scaffold?Never.-Winston Churchill
Quote by Leonard Cohen
Poetry is just the evidence of life.If your life is burning well,poetry is just the ash.-Leonard Cohen
Great quote from the Alfred Hitchcock film REAR WINDOW
We've become a race of Peeping Toms.What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.-Jimmy Stewart's nurse in the Alfred Hitchcock film REAR WINDOW
Quote on judges
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice,and they are also the most protected.-Alan B.Dershowitz
Great English proverb
The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.-English proverb
Great quote by the Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else ;you're the one who gets burned.-Buddha
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Great but underused quote of Aldous Huxley
All gods are homemade,and it is we who pull their strings,and so,give them the power to pull ours.-Aldous Huxley
Friday, October 01, 2010
Great quote on advertising
In the world of advertising,there's no such thing as a lie.There's only expedient exaggeration.-Cary Grant,as Roger Thornhill in the 1959 movie NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Quote on plastic surgery
I wish I had a twin,so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.-Joan Rivers(b.1933),American comedian and talk show host
Quote on Television
Television is the triumph of the image over the printed word.-Moses Znaimer(1942-),Canadian producer and entrepreneur