Friday, May 31, 2013
Narcotics cannot still the tooth that Nibbles at the soul.-Emily Dickinson
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Quote on God
They said that God is everywhere,and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.-Emily Dickinson
143rd list of 10 French songs you like
1.Rosalie(1979)-Carlos.(You love this song)
2.Je ne Veux pas Rentrer Chez Moi Seule-Regrets & Agathe
3.Le Sirop Typhon-Richard Anthony(This song is a beautiful version of the 1968 hit song 'LILY THE PINK' by Scaffold.)
4.En Souvenir De Toi-Rosita Salvador
5.Accrochons-nous à l'amour-Mike Brant
6.Petit Oreille(1969)-Francine Robert
7.Le Taxi De L'Amour(1969)-Francine Robert
8.Les Ballons(1968)-Richard Anthony.
9.L'An 2005(1969)-Richard Anthony(This song is a French version of the Zager and Evans 1969 song 'IN THE YEAR 2525')
10.Des Nuits Blanches Sans Toi(1968)-Robert Demontigny.(This song is a French version of the 1968 song 'OVER YOU' by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap).
2.Je ne Veux pas Rentrer Chez Moi Seule-Regrets & Agathe
3.Le Sirop Typhon-Richard Anthony(This song is a beautiful version of the 1968 hit song 'LILY THE PINK' by Scaffold.)
4.En Souvenir De Toi-Rosita Salvador
5.Accrochons-nous à l'amour-Mike Brant
6.Petit Oreille(1969)-Francine Robert
7.Le Taxi De L'Amour(1969)-Francine Robert
8.Les Ballons(1968)-Richard Anthony.
9.L'An 2005(1969)-Richard Anthony(This song is a French version of the Zager and Evans 1969 song 'IN THE YEAR 2525')
10.Des Nuits Blanches Sans Toi(1968)-Robert Demontigny.(This song is a French version of the 1968 song 'OVER YOU' by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap).
Quote from Thomas EDison
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.-Thomas Edison
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Quote from Emily Dickinson
The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstyatic experience.-Emily Dickinson
Superb verse from Emily Dickinson
The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee.-Emily Dickinson
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee.-Emily Dickinson
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Great quote from Fannie Flagg
Remember,if people talk behind your back,it only means you're two steps ahead.-Fannie Flagg
Great quote from Ed Cunningham
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.-Ed Cunningham
Quote from Thomas Edison
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source-frequently starting where the last person left off-I am sometimes accurately described as more of a sponge than an inventor.-Thomas Edison(1847-1931),American inventor.
Great quote from Steve Jobs
Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.-Steve Jobs
Quote from Jerry Seinfeld
Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for.-Jerry Seinfeld
Monday, May 27, 2013
Quote on rationalization
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.-Karen Horney
Quote from Dorothy Dix
Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism.You can think yourself happy or you can think yourself miserable.-Dorothy Dix
Quote from William Osler
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.-William Osler
A Senegalese proverb
A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small.-Senegalese proverb
Quote on confession
Confession is always weakness.The grave soul keeps its own secrets,and takes its own punishment in silence.-Dorothy Dix
A Chinese proverb
If you rescue someone from drowning you're responsible for them forever.-Chinese proverb
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Another quote from Dorothy Dix
I have learned to live each day as it comes,and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us all.-Dorothy Dix
Quote from Dorothy Dix
The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.-Dorothy Dix(1870-1951),American journalist and columnist.
Quote on celebrity
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.-Emily Dickinson
Another quote from Lauren Weisberger
I've always expressed my thoughts in color,but we remain blind.-Lauren Weisberger,THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA.
Quote from Lauren Weisberger
A few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.-Lauren Weisberger(b.1977),CHASING HARRY WINSTON.
Quote from Marie T.Freeman
Keeping up with the Joneses is like keeping up with a scared jackrabbit-only harder.-Marie T.Freeman
Friday, May 24, 2013
A Senegalese proverb
If a centipede loses a leg,it does not prevent him from walking.-Senegalese proverb
Quote from Dorothea Brande
If you simply let a problem wash around in your mind,it will seem greater and much more vague than it will appear on close examination.-Dorothea Brande
Excellent Senegalese proverb
Three kinds of people die poor: those who divorce,those who incur debts,and those who move around too much.-Senegalese proverb
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Quote on trouble
Trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our heads.-Claire Weeks
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Unusual Senegalese proverb
What is the point of consulting a dead man's horoscope?-Senegalese proverb
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Quote from Dorothy Dix
Surely the consolation prize of old age is finding out how few things are worth worrying over.-Dorothy Dix
Another Senegalese proverb
The chameleon changes color to match the earth,the earth doesn't change color to match the chameleon.-Senegalese proverb
An interesting Senegalese proverb
Trusting in wealth is like looking for feathers on turtles.-Senegalese proverb
Quote from Dr.Joyce Brothers
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.-Dr.Joyce Brothers
Quote from George Santayana
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.-Philosopher George Santayana
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Quote from Mabel L.Robinson
From a dog's point of view his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.-Mabel L.Robinson,American children's author(1874-1962)
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Quote from Ada Adams
There is a light at the end of every tunnel.Some tunnels just happen to be longer than others.-Ada Adams
Friday, May 17, 2013
Quote from Gilda Radner
Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.-Gilda Radner
Quote from Michael Ignatieff
One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth ,the good and the bad-but yours,shaped by your own choices,and not someone else's.-Michael Ignatieff(b.1947)
Great quote on bicycling
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.-Grant Petersen
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Quote from John Locke
New opinions are always suspected,and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.-John Locke
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Quote from Chick Hearn
He has two chances,slim and none,and slim just left the building.-Chick Hearn
D'Aragon street in Ville Émard
D'Aragon street in Ville Émard in Montreal was formerly named Victoria street.
Montmagny street in Ville Émard
Montmagny Avenue in Ville Émard in Montreal was formerly named Kelly Avenue.
Quote from Luke Khumalo
The tragedy of truth evasion is that it dulls the edge of guilt---slows down or kills altogether the process of soul-searching.-Luke Khumalo,1977.
Quote on starvation
All is fair in war and starvation is one of the weapons of war.-Chief Obafemi Awolowo
Quote from Joe Brown
Learn to smile at any situation.See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability.-Joe Brown
Quote from Naomi Klein
In moments of crisis,people are willing to hand over a great deal of power to anyone who claims to have a magic cure.-Naomi Klein,2007
Monday, May 13, 2013
Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Another quote from Louise Bogan
Rank does not confer privilege or give power.It imposes responsibility.-Louise Bogan(1897-1970)
Quote from Louise Bogan
True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.-Louise Bogan(1897-1970),American poet who was poetry editor for NEW YORKER magazine for 38 years.
Quote from Michael Ignatieff
Myth is a narrative shaped by desire,not by truth.-Michael Ignatieff,1988
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Quote on intellectuals
The intellectual is a middle-class product;if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it,in order to exist.He is the finenervous flower of the bourgeoisie.-Louise Bogan
Another quote from Louise Bogan
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.-Louise Bogan,American poet.
Great quote from Louise Bogan
Stupidity always accompanies evil.Or evil,stupidity.-Louise Bogan(1897-170),American poet
Quote from Robert Heller
Never ignore a gut feeling,but never believe that it's enough.-Robert Heller
Quote from Louise Bogan
Because language is the carrier of ideas,it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.-American poet Louise Bogan(1897-1970)
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Quote on grandparents
There should be a law requiring married couples to become grandparents before they be permitted to become parents.
Babies are so much better off in the hands of older people who value life so much more.
Any kid who has been raised by grandparents would never want to live with young,impatient,irritable,cranky parents.-Sam Levenson
Babies are so much better off in the hands of older people who value life so much more.
Any kid who has been raised by grandparents would never want to live with young,impatient,irritable,cranky parents.-Sam Levenson
Another quote from Edith Sitwell
The public will believe anything,so long as it is not founded on truth.-Edith Sitwell
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Quote on sex education
My sex education was far from ideal.It was typical of its time.Waiting was never easy.(The urge was often urgent).Yet,I sometimes wonder whether it wasn't easier for us to wait than to have to prove our maturity upon demand.Instant sex like instant coffee may not necessarily be the best.-American author Sam Levenson
Great T-shirt inscription
FBI-Female body inspector.-I saw this on a young man's T-shirt on Peel street in downtown Montreal.
Quote from Zach Manal
I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile.I tried---but they wanted cash.-Zach Manal
Monday, May 06, 2013
Great quote from Oscar Wilde
We degenerate into hideous puppets,haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid,and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.-Oscar Wilde
Sunday, May 05, 2013
Quote on civilization
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath,just about a coat of varnish.-Carrie P.Snow
Saturday, May 04, 2013
Quote from Kahlil Gibran
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.-Kahlil Gibran(1883-1931)
Friday, May 03, 2013
Quote from Edgar R.Fiedler
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.-Edgar R.Fiedler
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Another quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves that all of life is not black and white.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quote from Alexis Carrel
The atmosphere of libraries,lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.It separates us from reality like a fog.-Alexis Carrel
Another great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I reach toward the shining mountains beyond the fog of daily worries.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Great quote from Antonio Machado
Travelers,there is no path.Paths are made by walking.-Antonio Machado