Monday, September 30, 2013
Quote from George Bernard Shaw
I never climbed any ladder.I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.-George Bernard Shaw
Quote from Ralph Marston
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.-Ralph Marston
Superb quote from Jean Anyon
Attempting to fix inner-city schools without fixing the city in which they are embedded is like trying to clean the air on one side of a screen door.-Jean Anyon(Jean Anyon sadly died in September 2013 at the age of 72).
Three interesting quotes
1.The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.-Ralph W.Sockman
2.Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies,telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your life.-Marilyn Ferguson
3.No one can persuade another to change.Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.We cannot open the gate of another,either by argument or emotional appeal.-Marilyn Ferguson
2.Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies,telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your life.-Marilyn Ferguson
3.No one can persuade another to change.Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.We cannot open the gate of another,either by argument or emotional appeal.-Marilyn Ferguson
Another quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.We are never tired,so long as we can see far enough.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote from Norman Mailer
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.-Norman Mailer
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose.It cannot have both.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote on Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple had charisma as a child.But it cleared up as an adult.-Totie Fields,American actress(1930-1978)
Great quote from Hubert H.Humphrey
Compassion is not weakness,and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.-Hubert H.Humphrey
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Insightful quote from Marilyn Ferguson
Over the years our bodies become walking autobiographies telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your life.-Marilyn Ferguson
Quote from Ralph W.Sockman
Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.-Ralph W.Sockman
Inspiring quote from Marilyn Ferguson
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.-Marilyn Ferguson
Superb quote from Ralph W.Sockman
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.-Ralph W.Sockman
Great quote from Bill Cosby
Every closed eye is not sleeping,and every open eye is not seeing.-Bill Cosby
Quote from Thomas Hobbes
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone;the mind,those of the past and future as well as the present.Gluttony is a lust of the mind.-Thomas Hobbes
Great quote from Ralph Marston
You can close your eyes to reality,but not to memories.-Ralph Marston(b.1907)
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Quote from John Chancellor
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride,Covetousness and Lust;the cross streets are Anger,Gluttony,Envy and Sloth.I live over on Sloth,and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.-John Chancellor
Quote from Ralph Marston
Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day,but also of the additional day it takes to regain ground.-Ralph Marston
Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quote from Edith Wharton
Life is the only real counselor;wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.-Edith Wharton
Wise quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.Life is death reborn.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quote from George Bernard Shaw
The best place to seek God is in a garden.You can dig for him there.-George Bernard Shaw
Great quote from Charlie Chaplin
I always like walking in the rain,so noone can see me crying.-Charlie Chaplin
Friday, September 27, 2013
Quote from George Wherry
Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man.-George Wherry
Quote from Aldous Huxley
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church-going.-Aldous Huxley(1894-1963)
Interesting quote from Pepper Giardino
The moon is like a mystery novel,the sun like a motivational self-help book,and the stars a coffee table book of photography.The sky is the whole library,and God the librarian.-Pepper Giardino
Quote from Oscar Wilde
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.-Oscar Wilde
Great quote from Pepper Giardino
Since the coming of air pollution and city lights,the stars have become much more shy than they used to be.-Pepper Giardino
Quote from Jean Rostand
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.-Jean Rostand(1894-1977),French historian and biologist.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Great quote from Ralph Chaplin
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth,upon which the race depends on food,clothing and shelter,should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.-Ralph Chaplin
Great quote from Edward R.Murrow
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.When the loyal opposition dies ,I think the soul of America dies with it.-Edward R.Murrow
Quote from Charles M.Schulz
All you need is love.But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.-Charles M.Schulz
Wise quote from Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.-Epictetus
Great quote from Pepper Giardino
Walking is good for solving problems-it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.-Pepper Giardino
Quote from Mary Anne Radmacher
Understand you die a little in every moment.Be Enlivened.-Mary Anne Radmacher
Insightful quote from Erich Fromm
Love is an act of faith,and whoever is of little faith is of little love.-Erich Fromm
Great quote from Edward R.Murrow
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up,at least a little bit.-Edward R.Murrow
Great quote from Lewis Mumford
Restore human legs as a means of travel.Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.-Lewis Mumford(1895-1990),U.S. urban planner,author and social critic.
Quote from Edgar Watson Howe
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.-Edgar Watson Howe
Quote on parasites
Parasites seldom altogether abandon a monarch so long as the crown still glitters on his head.-William Beckford,`'EPISODES OF VATHEK'
Great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time is like going to a restaurant,ordering everything on the menu,and complaining about indigestion.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quote from Harold Bell Wright
There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.-Harold Bell Wright
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Extraordinary quote from Grace Murray Hopper
Humans are allergic to change.They love to say 'We've always done it this way.'I try to fight that.That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.-Grace Murray Hopper
Great quote on George Carlin
Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws(at most an occasional visit to the cemetery).-George Carlin(b.1937)
Quote from H.L.Mencken
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.-H.L.Mencken(1880-1956).
An odd English proverb
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow,sharp and short.-English proverb
Quote from Ivan Kozloff
Money is a bottomless sea,in which honor,conscience,and truth may be drowned.-Ivan Kozloff
Quote from Ralph Marston
When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal,that's not a reason to abandon the goal.Instead,it is time to devise another approach.-Ralph Marston
Quote on dreams
Dreams are unrealistic,impractical,demanding---and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.-Ralph Marston
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Quote from Ralph Marston
Rest when you're weary.
Refresh and renew yourself,your body,your mind,your spirit.
Then get back to work.-Ralph Marston
Refresh and renew yourself,your body,your mind,your spirit.
Then get back to work.-Ralph Marston
Quote on solitude
Solitude is creativity's best friend,and solitude is refreshment for our souls.-Naomi Judd
Monday, September 23, 2013
Great quote from Ralph Marston
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance.Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.Expect the best of yourself,and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.-Ralph Marston
Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I won't give up till goats sing and walruses fly.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quote from Pierre Berton
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant.It seeks to divide and to destroy.-Pierre Berton
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Another nice quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile broadly,sing loudly,paint your rooms in bold colors,search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,wear a purple coat with a red hat-dance lightly with life.Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quote from Henry Ford
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business,always shaving away at costs.-Henry Ford(1863-1947).
Great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,celebrate your differences-make a great fruit salad.Love isn't about being the same-it's about being sweet with each other.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great quote on enemies
You have enemies?Good.That means you've stood up for something ,sometime in your life.-Winston Churchill
Quote from Robert Brault
You do not wake up one morning a bad person.It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.-Robert Brault
Friday, September 20, 2013
Great quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground as you reach for the stars.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Great quote on empathy
Empathy---must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet.Because,ultimately the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim,between the successful and the defeated.-Philip K.Dick
Quote from Peter Adejimi
A cockroach cannot attend the meeting of chicken and be offered innocent.-Peter Adejimi
Quote from Wyndham Lewis
Prostration is our natural position.A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade,and back,is the type of movement that is natural to men.-Wyndham Lewis
Superb quote from Arthur C.Clarke
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.-Arthur C.Clarke(b.1917),British writer of science fiction
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Quote from Barbara Christine Seifert
A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.-Barbara Christine Seifert
Quote from Zachary Taylor
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.-Zachary Taylor
Quote from Ezra Pound
The Image is more than an idea.It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.-Ezra Pound(1885-1972)
Quote from Emma Goodman
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity;the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)
Quote from Daj Hammarskjold
Life yields only to the conqueror.Never accept what can be gained by giving in.You will be living off stolen goods,and your muscles will atrophy.-Daj Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Quote from Emma Goodman
All claims of education notwithstanding,the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)
Monday, September 16, 2013
Quote from Martha Gellhorn
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.-Martha Gellhorn
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Quote from Theodore Sorensen
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gang of self-denial from our voices,we can restore our country to greatness.-Theodore Sorensen
A mark of olive oil you finished consuming in September 2013
In September 2013,you finished consuming a 750 g glass bottle of CLEOPATRA Extra-Virgin Olive Oil.Packed in Italy.(Contains high-quality Extra-virgin olive oils from Greece,Spain and Italy).
It was not bad.You bought it from the newly opened Adonis supermarket on Ste.Catherine Street,near Atwater metro,on special,for $2.99.
It was not bad.You bought it from the newly opened Adonis supermarket on Ste.Catherine Street,near Atwater metro,on special,for $2.99.
Great quote from Steve Albini
Know what you're trying to do before you do it.Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.-Steve Albini
Funny quote from Steve Martin
I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal-high enough so you can look up her dress.-Steve Martin(b.1945),American comedian,actor,writer,producer and musician.
Superb quote on apathy
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.-William Lloyd Garrison(1805-1879),American social activist,Journalist and Abolitionist.
Great quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true artist has the planet for his pedestal;the adventurer,after years of strife,has nothing broader than his shoes.-Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882),American poet,essayist,lecturer and philosopher.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Great quote from Frank Lloyd Wright
If it keeps up,man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.-Frank Lloyd Wright(1867-1959),American architect and writer,the most abundantly creative genius of American architecture.
Insightful quote from Emma Goldman
The political arena leaves one no alternative,one must either be a dunce or a rogue.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940).
Quote from Gloria Steinem
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small,confined space.-Gloria Steinem(b.1935)
Provocative quote on prostitution
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body,but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)
Quote from Desmond Doig
The first tram cars rattled noisily through the empty streets,dilapidated monsters that just hours later would be festooned with people on their way to work.-Desmond Doig
Quote from Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance----poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.-Ezra Pound(1885-1972),American editor,poet,critic and translator.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Insightful quote on puritanism
Puritanism,in whatever expression,is a poisonous germ.On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous,yet the poison works its way persistently,until the entire fabric is doomed.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)
Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quote from Mary Anne Radmacher
Weariness comes on some days,from lack of service to self.-Mary Anne Radmacher
Quote from Dick Raymond
Before moving on,you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.-Dick Raymond
Quote from Rabindranath Tagore
By plucking her petals,you do not gather the beauty of the flower.-Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941)
Quote from Emma Goldman
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)
Quote on Idealists
Idealists---foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed,have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.-Emma Goldman(1869-1940)
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Great line from Woody Allen film
Life's like Vegas.You're up,you're down,but in the end the house always wins.Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.-Line from the Woody Allen film DECONSTRUCTING HARRY.
Great quote from Marianne Williamson
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,but by the love we're not extending in the present.-Marianne Williamson
Great quote from Colin Firth
If you don't mind haunting the margins,I think there is more freedom there.-Colin Firth
Quote from John W.Gardner
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.-John Gardner
Great quote on public relations
Public-relations specialists make flower arrangements of the facts,placing them so that the wilted and less attractive petals are hidden by sturdy blooms.-Alan Harrington
Quote from Ezra Pound
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.-Ezra Pound
Quote from Theodore Bikel
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.-Theodore Bikel
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Quote on silence
Silence is exhilarating at first -as noise is-but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration,akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.-Edward Hoagland
Quote from Edward Hoagland
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga-stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.-Edward Hoagland
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Quote on solitude
True solitude is a din of birdsong,seething leaves,whirling colors,or a clamor of tracks in the snow.-Edward Hoagland
Quote on grandparents
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.-Gene Perret
Quote from Edward Hoagland
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly,even at the height of summer.-Edward Hoagland
Monday, September 09, 2013
Quote from Johnny Bench
Slumps are like a soft bed.They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.-Johnny Bench
Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The common denominator of our heroes is that each set their own course.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sunday, September 08, 2013
Quote from Ernst Fischer
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.-Ernst Fischer
Funny quote from Jean Kerr
When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales'',they don't necessarily think of chairs.- Jean Kerr,American writer(1923-2003).
Great quote from Edward Hoagland
Like a kick in the butt,the force of events wakes slumberous talents.-Edward Hoagland
Insightful quote from Jean Kerr
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy,because the poor person has hope.He thinks money could help.-Jean Kerr(1923-2003)
Quote from Jacob Riis
The slum is the measure of civilization.-Jacob Riis(1849-1914),American newspaper reporter and photographer.
Quote from Christopher Morley
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.-Christopher Morley
Interesting quote from Jean Kerr
Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.-Jean Kerr(1922-2003),American writer.
Saturday, September 07, 2013
Quote from Winston Churchill
The maxim "Nothing but perfection'' may be spelled "Paralysis."-Sir Winston Churchill(1874-1965)
Quote from George Carlin
Let a smile be your umbrella,and you'll end up with a face full of rain.-George Carlin
Quote from Jean Kerr
Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?-Jean Kerr(1923-2003),American writer.
Friday, September 06, 2013
Quote from Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art.Whatever is popular is wrong.-Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)
Great quote from John Steinbeck
Perhaps the less we have,the more we are required to brag.-John Steinbeck,EAST OF EDEN.
Great quote from Karol Newlin
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.-Karol Newlin
Quote from John Steinbeck
Men do not change,and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn,and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.-John Steinbeck
Thursday, September 05, 2013
Quote from Patti Smith
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon.In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.-Patti Smith
Quote from Donna Lynn Hope
It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.-Donna Lynn Hope
Quote from Jeremy Collier
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency,and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.-Jeremy Collier
Quote from Louis L'Amour
Actually,all education is self-education.A teacher is only a guide,to point out the way,and no school,no matter how excellent,can give you education.What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book.You must fill in the colors yourself.-Louis L'Amour(1908-1988)
Superb quote on jealousy
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read.It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.-Margaret Mead
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
Great quote from Lloyd Alexander
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.-Lloyd Alexander
Quote from G.K.Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education---Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.-G.K.Chesterton
Interesting quote from Theodore H.White
The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted.Then he doesn't lie.-Theodore H.White(1915-1986)
Quote from Jawaharlal Nehru
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.-Jawaharlal Nehru(1889-1964),Indian prime minister and freedom fighter
Insightful quote from Theodore H.White
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.-Theodore H.White(1915-1986)
Quote on the press
I take a grave view of the press.It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.-A.J.Liebling(1904-1963)
Great quote from Leonardo DaVinci
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health ,so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory,and it retains nothing it takes in.-Leonardo DaVinci
Sunday, September 01, 2013
Great quote from A.J.Liebling
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.-A.J.Liebling(1904-1963)
Quote from Don DeLillo
Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.-Don DeLillo
Superb quote from Theodore H.White
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,of most of the people you see every day,is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.-Theodore H.White(1915-1986),English historian,journalist and novelist.
Great quote from Bruce Lee
A goal is not always meant to be reached,it often serves simply as something to aim at.-Bruce Lee
Great quote from Abraham Maslow
You will either step forward into growth,or you will step backward into safety.-Abraham Maslow