Sunday, November 30, 2014
The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.-Michael Moorcock,ELRIC:THE STEALER OF SOULS.
Quote on land
Land,then,is not merely soil;it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils,plants and animals.-Aldo Leopold,A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC.
Quote on obesity
Obesity is a mental state,a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.-Cyril Connolly,THE UNQUIET GRAVE.
Quote from Brendan Francis
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.-Brendan Francis
Quote from Robert Brault
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.-Robert Brault
Great quote on land
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.When we see land as a community to which we belong,we may begin to use it with love and respect.-Aldo Leopold,A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC.
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Great quote from Brendan Francis
Some people are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.-Brendan Francis
Quote from Brendan Francis
Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet.-Brendan Francis
Quote on inspirations
Inspirations never go in for long engagements;they demand immediate marriage to action.-Brendan Francis
Quote from Brendan Francis
Every man,through fear,mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.-Brendan Francis
Quote from Robert Brault
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.-Robert Brault
Friday, November 28, 2014
Very good quote from Aldo Leopold
We face the question whether a still higher ''standard of living''is worth its cost in things natural,wild and free.-Aldo Leopold,A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC,1949.
Quote on alcohol
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.-George Bernard Shaw
Quote on shopping
Shopping is better than sex.If you're not satisfied after shopping you can make an exchange for something you really like.-Adrienne Gusoff
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Quote from Robert Brault
There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.-Robert Brault
Quote on varicose veins
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.-William Osler
Quote from Cicero
A thanmkful heart isd n ot only the greatest virtue,but the parent of all the other virtues.-Cicero
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Quote from Virginia Graham
When some people retire,it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.-Virginia Graham
Quote from Patty Doyle
My retirement plan is to find a shopping cart with good snow tires.-Patty Doyle
Quote from Terri Guillemets
In retirement,every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.-Terri Guillemets
Quote from Robert Half
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.-Robert Half
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Good quote on technology
Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.-Robert M.Pirsig
Interesting quote on retirement
Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment.-Terri Guillemets
Insightful quote from Paul Sweeney
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes,packaged cake mixes,frozen dinners,and instant cameras teach patience to its young?-Paul Sweeney
Monday, November 24, 2014
Quote from Terri Guillemets
Wash out your ego every once in a while,as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.-Terri Guillemets
Quote from Arthur Koestler
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.-Arthur Koestler
Quote from W.Somerset Maugham
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar,but in a city,with its blaze of lights,it is unnatural,hostile and menacing.It is like a monstruous vulture that hovers,biding its time.-W.Somerset Maugham
Quote from Terri Guillemets
Pray on the shadowy hillside of hardship and on the sunny hillside of happiness.-Terri Guillemets
Great quote on leaders
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader;a boss says "Go!''-a leader says "Let's go!''-E.M.Kelly
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Quote from Mary H.Waldrip
When someone sings his own praises,he always gets the tune too high.-Mary H.Waldrip
Another quote from Mignon McLaughlin
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.-Mignon McLaughlin,THE NEUROTIC'S NOTEBOOK,1960.
Quote from James McNeill Whistler
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary,because heaven has granted me no offspring.-James McNeill Whistler
Website of a Montreal intellectual
Maja Nazaruk is a Montreal intellectual,polyglot and PHD student in literary anthropology .She speaks English,French,Italian and Polish fluently.She also speaks Persian.Her articles have been published in many scholarly journals and academic journals. Visit her website at http://majanazaruk.wordpress.com
Quote from Robert Service
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big,worthwhile things.-Robert Service
Quote from Mignon McLaughlin
There are whole years for which I hope I"ll never be cross-examined,for I could not give an alibi.-Mignon McLaughlin,THE NEUROTIC'S NOTEBOOK,1960.
Quote on nudist colonies
I was just thinking,if it is really religion with these nudist colonies,they sure must turn atheists in the winter time.-Will Rogers
Quote from Gina Lindley
People who put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.-Gina Lindley
Great quote on criticism
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.-Robert Brault
Quote from Ashleigh Brilliant
It'sd not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.-Ashleigh Brilliant
Quote from Bern Williams
I like the word ''indolence''.It makes my laziness seem classy.-Bern Williams
The term 'Small talk'
The term 'Small talk' was coined by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski in 1923.
Quote from William Safire
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.-William Safire
Quote from Howard Scott
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.-Howard Scott
Quote from Mary H.Waldrip
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.-Mary H.Waldrip
Quote from Doug Larson
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.-Doug Larson
Quote from Smiley Blanton
Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life,and loving husbands and fathers at home.-Smiley Blanton
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Quote from Patrick Driessen
I love quotes because good quotes are vitamins for the brain!-Patrick Driessen
Quote from Douglas Malloch
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.-Douglas Malloch
Quote from MIgnon McLaughlin
We work for praise,and dawdle once we have it.-Mignon McLaughlin,THE NEUROTIC'S NOTEBOOK,1960
Friday, November 21, 2014
Quote from Polly Adler
I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life-even when it's a kick in the teeth.-Polly Adler
Quote from Nicholas Johnson
It used to be that people needed products to survive.Now products need people to survive.-Nicholas Johnson
Great quote from George McGovern
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.-George McGovern
Quote on authors
Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.--Terri Guillemets
Quote from Nancy Barcus
The closer one gets to the top,the more one finds there is no ''top.''-Nancy Barcus
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Quote from Ross MacDonald
The wall of books around him,dense with the past,formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.-Ross MacDonald
Quote from Louise A.Belcher
Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.-Louise A.Belcher
Quote from Russell Lynes
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.-Russell Lynes
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Quote from Brian Aldiss
Civilization is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.-Brian W.Aldiss,THE DARK LIGHT YEARS.
Quote from Peter Drucker
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.-Peter Drucker
Quote from Elizabeth Russell
Bread and butter,devoid of charm in the drawing-room,is ambrosia eating under a tree.-Elizabeth Russell
Interesting blogs and websites on eating
1 www.seriouseats.com
2 http://cakewardrobe.blogspot.com
3 http://noblepig.com
4 http://passionateeater.blogspot.com
5 www.seriouseats.com
6 www.welikeitraw.com
7 http://tastewiththeeyes.blogspot.com
8 www.thedeliciouslife.blogspot.com
9 www.leftoverqueen.com
10 http://therawfooddetoxdiet.com
11 www.foodmayhem.com
12 www.tastememory.com
13 www.culinate.com
14 http://desertcandy.blogspot.com
15 www.foodhoe.com
16 http://thewanderingeater.wordpress.com
17 www.lifecandy.net
18 www.momsraw.com
19 http://mrspleasantvintage.blogspot.com
20 www.williamrubel.com
2 http://cakewardrobe.blogspot.com
3 http://noblepig.com
4 http://passionateeater.blogspot.com
5 www.seriouseats.com
6 www.welikeitraw.com
7 http://tastewiththeeyes.blogspot.com
8 www.thedeliciouslife.blogspot.com
9 www.leftoverqueen.com
10 http://therawfooddetoxdiet.com
11 www.foodmayhem.com
12 www.tastememory.com
13 www.culinate.com
14 http://desertcandy.blogspot.com
15 www.foodhoe.com
16 http://thewanderingeater.wordpress.com
17 www.lifecandy.net
18 www.momsraw.com
19 http://mrspleasantvintage.blogspot.com
20 www.williamrubel.com
Quote from Paul Brodeur
Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.-Paul Brodeur,OUTRAGEOUS MISCONDUCT.
Quote on maturity
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.-Joshua L.Liebman
Monday, November 17, 2014
Quote from Neil Postman
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.-Neil Postman,American sociologist.
Wise quote from Erma Bombeck
Seize the moment.Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.-Erma Bombeck
Quote on budgets
The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.-Dan Bennett
Quote on condensed milk
Condensed milk is wonderful.I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.-Fred Allen
Old New York proverb
A nickel will get you on the subway,but garlic will get you a seat.-Old New York proverb
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Quote from Ursula K Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?-Ursula K.LeGuin
Quote from Stephen King
Only enemies speak the truth;friends and lovers lie endlessly,caught in the web of duty.-Stephen King
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote from Catherine Aird
If----you can't be a good example,then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.-Catherine Aird
Quote on self-acceptance
A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself;he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.-James A.Pike
Quote from John Wesley
Passion and prejudice govern the world,only under the name of reason.-John Wesley
Quote on self-pity
Self-pity is a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.-Elizabeth Elliot
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Quote from Ayn Rand
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.-Ayn Rand,ATLAS SHRUGGED.
Quote from Christopher Hitchens
The essence of tyranny is not iron law.It is capricious law.-Christopher Hitchens,LOVE,POVERTY AND WAR:JOURNEYS AND ESSAYS.
Quote from Stefan Molyneux
The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.-Stefan Molyneux
Quote on taxation
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons.-Robert Anton Wilson,THE ILLUMINATI PAPERS.
Friday, November 14, 2014
Quote from Lysander Spooner
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.-Lysander Spooner
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Insightful quote on tyrants
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.-Elbert Hubbard
Quote from Edward R.Murrow
No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.-Edward R.Murrow
Quote on literary prizes
The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales,not to reward merit.-Michael Moorcock
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Insightful quote on conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless.If you cannot change your own life,it must be that some greater force controls the world.-Roger Cohen
Quote from Adolf Hitler
To conquer a nation,first disarm its citizens.-Adolf Hitler,German dictator.
Interesting quote from Emily Bronte
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him;they crush those beneath them.-Emily Bronte
Quote from Ernie Pyle
If you go long enough without a bath,even the fleas will leave you alone.-Ernie Pyle
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Quote fgrom John Cheever
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.-John Cheever(1912-1982),American short-story writer.
Interesting quote on fiction
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.-John Cheever
Monday, November 10, 2014
Great quote on trees
I never saw a discontented tree.They grip the ground as though they liked it,and though fast rooted,they travel about as far as we do.-John Muir
Quote from Simon Head
It offends the continuum of human dignity to treat people like the appendage of highly efficient machines.-Simon Head
Quote from John Tudor
Pessimists have already begun to worry about what is going to replace automation.-John Tudor
Quotation from Marshall McLuhan
As technology advances,it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again.The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'-Marshall McLuhan
Quote from David Lodge
Perhaps that's what we're all looking for-desire undiluted by habit.-David Lodge(born 1935).
Quote on fiction
Fiction is experimentation;when it ceases to be that,it ceases to be fiction.-John Cheever(1912-1982)
Sunday, November 09, 2014
Great quote from David Lodge
I never did like working out-it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex.-David Lodge(b.1935),English critic and novelist.
Interesting quote on sex
Sex without love is nothing more than a complex form of masturbation.-August Clearwing,NEVER HAVE I EVER.
Funny quote from Lily Tomlin
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.-Lily Tomlin
Saturday, November 08, 2014
Quote from Marcus Aurelius
The noblest way of taking revenge on others is by refusing to become like them.-Marcus Aurelius
Quote from Alfred North Whitehead
There are no whole truths:all truths are half-truths.It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.-Alfred North Whitehead
Insightful quote from Thomas Paine
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.-Thomas Paine
Quote from Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.-Marcus Aurelius
Quote from Rusty Berkus
When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence,applaud yourself!-Rusty Berkus
Friday, November 07, 2014
Quote from J.R.R.Tolkien
The wide world is all about you:you can fence yourselves in,but you cannot forever fence it out.-J.R.R.Tolkien
Great quote from George Collopy
If you follow the money you'll lose your dreams.If you follow your dreams,the money will come.-George Collopy
Quote on sleep
Sleep was like sex.The less you had,the more you craved it.-Robert Dugoni,MY SISTER'S GRAVE.
Thursday, November 06, 2014
Quote from Margaret Drabble
Too academic an education can inhibit the workings of the creative mind.-Margaret Drabble,THE PARIS REVIEW,fall/winter 1978.
Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Quote on wine and cheese
Wine and cheese are ageless companions,like aspirin and aches,or June and moon,or good people and noble ventures.-M.F.K Fisher
Quote on women's ages
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.-Mignon McLaughlin
Quote from Clarence Day
You can't sweep other people off their feet,if you can't be swept off your own.-Clarence Day
Quote from Frank A.Clark
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.-Frank A.Clark
Tuesday, November 04, 2014
Quote from Ward Just
Watching a baseball game on television is like chasing the great white whale in a goldfish bowl.It trivializes eveything:men two inches high,a ball the size of a bee.It is like looking at the heavens through a dime-store telescope.-Ward Just
Quote from Bill Vaughan
The whale is endangered,while the ant continues to do just fine.-Bill Vaughan
Great quote on government
A government,for protecting business only,is but a carcass ,and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.-Amos Bronson Alcott(1799-1888),American reformer,philosopher and teacher.
Monday, November 03, 2014
Quote from Elin Hilderbrand
To be early is to be on time,to be on time is to be late,to be late is to be forgotten.-Elin Hilderbrand,THE ISLAND.
Quote from R.Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.-R.Buckminster Fuller
Quote from Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life ''fair'',but you do have the power to make life joyful.-Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Quote from Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door.Notice.-Mary Anne Radmacher
Sunday, November 02, 2014
Thought-provoking quote on capitalism
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history.Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money.The banking system will collapse totally,and we will be left having to barter to stay alive.Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest.I'll be all right;I've got a few veg.-Margaret Drabble,THE GUARDIAN,January 2,1993.
Quote from Margaret Drabble
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition,which I admire,than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.-Margaret Drabble(born 1939)
Quote from Noel Coward
I need to put some roots down somewhere in Europe.I'm tired of the unbrave New world.-Noel Coward,THE NOEL COWARD DIARIES,April 13,1958 entry.
Quote from John D.Rockefeller
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.-John D.Rockefeller
Saturday, November 01, 2014
Quote on rejection
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going,rather than retreat.-Sylvester Stallone
Another quote from Walter Gropius
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.-Walter Gropius
Quote from John D.Rockefeller
A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily.-John D.Rockefeller(1839-1937),American industrialist and philanthropist,Founder of the Standard Oil Company.