Friday, May 31, 2013

Quote from Emily Dickinson

Narcotics cannot still the tooth that Nibbles at the soul.-Emily Dickinson

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Quote from Karen Horney

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.-Karen Horney

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).

Quote from Emily Dickinson

Bring me the sunset in a cup.-Emily Dickson

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

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

Quote from Thomas Edison

Vision without execution is hallucination.-Thomas Alva Edison

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 Jim Rohn

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.-Jim Rohn

Unusual quote from Mr.Miyagi

To make honey,young bee need young flower,not old prune.-Mr.Miyagi

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

Quote from Karen Horney

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.-Karen Horney

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

Quote on Dying

Dying is a wild night and a new road.-Emily Dickinson

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 Dorothea Brande

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.-Dorothea Brande

Quote from Dorothy Dix

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.-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

Quote from Gwendolyn Brooks

Exhaust the little moment.Soon it dies.-Gwendolyn Brooks

Quote from W.H.Auden

Thousands have lived without love,not one without water.-W.H.Auden

A Senegalese proverb

Even the fall of a dancer is a somersault.-Senegalese proverb

Friday, May 24, 2013

Another Senegalese proverb

The heart is not a knee that can be bent.-Senegalese proverb

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

A Senegalese proverb

A lobster loves water,but not when he's being cooked in it.-Senegalese proverb

Quote on attitude

Attitude is the mind's paintbrush;it can color any situation.-Barbara Johnson

Quote on worry

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.-Mitzi Chandler

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

Another Senegalese proverb

The night is the king of shadows.-Senegalese proverb

A Senegalese proverb

Rising early makes the road short.-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 Toni Morrison

If you surrender to the wind,you can ride it.-Toni Morrison

Quote from Barbara Jordan

Each day,look for a kernel of excitement.-Barbara Jordan

Quote from George Santayana

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation  in the world.-Philosopher George Santayana

Quote from Emma Goldman

When we can't dream any longer,we die.-Emma Goldman

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Quote from Jack Johnson

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.-Jack Johnson

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

Quote from Gustave Flaubert

God is in the details.-Gustave Flaubert

Friday, May 17, 2013

Quote from Seneca

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.-Seneca

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

Monk Avenue in Ville Émard

Monk Avenue in Ville Émard was named Davidson street before 1967.

Hurteau street in Ville Émard

Hurteau street in Ville Émard was formerly named Orchard street.

Old quote on South Africa

South Africa is a pigmentocracy.-Bloke Modisane,1961.

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 Emily Dickinson

A wounded deer leaps the highest.-Emily Dickinson

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 Louise Bogan

Tea instead of gin will warm the heart.-Louise Bogan

Quote from Robert Heller

Never ignore a gut feeling,but never believe that it's enough.-Robert Heller

Quote from 50 cent

I'm a track star running thru life,chasing my dream.-50 cent

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

Another quote from Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything,so long as it is not founded on truth.-Edith Sitwell

Quote from Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.-Edith Sitwell

Quote on poetry

Poetry is the deification of reality.-Edith Sitwell,LIFE MAGAZINE,1-4-1963

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Quote from Alex O' Loughlin

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.-Alex O' Loughlin

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 quote from Edith Sitwell

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.-Edith Sitwell

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

Proverb on hunger

Hunger makes raw beans taste sweet.-French proverb

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

Quote from Sam Levenson

Manslaughter is but an apostrophe removed from man's laughter.-Sam Levenson

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

Quote from Jimmy Cannon

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a Tv set.-Jimmy Cannon

Great quote from Antonio Machado

Travelers,there is no path.Paths are made by walking.-Antonio Machado

Great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quote from Tom Lehrer

I went from adolescence to senility,trying to bypass maturity.-Tom Lehrer