Quote on board meetings

Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation.They are ideas that cause thrills,chills and satisfaction,but there is no impregnation.Nothing is ever born of them.It's intellectual masturbation.-Steve Maraboli,UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOU:REFLECTIONS ON LIFE AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

Quote from Wilson Mizner

Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore.-Wilson Mizner(1876-1933)

Quote from Edna St.Vincent Millay

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.-Edna St.Vincent Millay(1892-1950),American poet and dramatist.

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The music that can deepest reach,
And cure all ill,is cordial speech.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,THE CONDUCT OF LIFE.

Quote from Neil Young

I think if you don't have some obsession in your life,you're dead.-Neil Young,Canadian musician and singer

Quote from Abraham Crowley

Words that weep,and Tears that speak.-Abraham Crowley,THE PROPHET.

Quote from Norman Mailer

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.-Norman Mailer

Quote from Christopher Moore

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.-Christopher Moore,PRACTICAL DEMONKEEPING.

Quote from Anais Nin

Art is the method of levitation,in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.-Anais Nin

199th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Celui Qui Chante-Michel Berger
2.Le Paradis Blanc-Michel Berger
3.Give Me Love(1973)-Mimi Hétu
4.Un Simple Mot D'Amour-Mimi Hétu
5.Si Tu Peux Revenir-Mimi Hétu
6.Cet Anneau d'Or-Georges Guétary
7.Cet Anneau d'Or-Patrick Norman
8.Il A Neigé Sur Nos Vingt Ans(1982)-Christine Chartrand et Claude Stében
9.Une Femme Avec Lui(1981)-Mimi Hétu
10.Salade de Fruits-Bourvil
10.Salade de Fruits-Annie Cordy

Quote from Becky Stark

When levitation fails,a ladder prevails.-Becky Stark

Interesting quote from Salman Rushdie

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure,which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure.Dance madly.That is how you get rid of terrorism.-Salman Rushdie

Quote from Gloria Leonard

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.-Gloria Leonard

Quote fromBecky Stark

When levitation fails,a ladder prevails.-Becky Stark

Great quote on pornography

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.-Angela Lambert

Quote from Washington Irving

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting,and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.-Washington Irving

Quote from Walter Winchell

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.-Walter Winchell

Another quote on champagne

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.-Aldous Huxley

Quote from Benjamin Franklin

Little boats should keep near shore.-Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790).

Another quote from Neil Young

I used to walk like a giant on the land.Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream.-Neil Young

Quote on champagne

Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.-Charles Dickens

Quote on mystique

As soon as you start talking about mystique,you have none.-Neil Young

Quote from Neil Young

If you follow every dream,you might get lost.-Neil Young

Quote from Criss Jami

With enough mental gymnastics,just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.-Criss Jami,HEALOLOGY.

Quote from Richard Baxter

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.-Richard Baxter

Quote from Timothy Leary

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.-Timothy Leary

Quote on organized religion

Organized religion is the ball and chain around the leg of science.-Dr Travis A.Erickson

Quote on poets

All poets are idlers,even if all idlers are not poets.-Tom Hodgkinson(born 1968).

Quote from Samuel Butler

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be,but,like our neighbours,we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.-Samuel Butler,NOTEBOOKS.

Exsanguinate

Exsanguinate-To drain of blood.

Quote from Jeanette Winterson

Age is information failure.The body loses fluency.-Jeanette Winterson

Quote from Geoffrey Parfitt

Never take a blind date to a silent film.-Geoffrey Parfitt

Quote from Don Tapscott

Holding back technology to reserve  business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.-Don Tapscott(born 1947).

Quote from Langston Hughes

Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet.-Langston Hughes(1902-1967).

Quote from Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.-Charles Dickens

Quote from Geoffrey Parfitt

People say that age is just a state of mind.I say it's more about the state of your body.-Geoffrey Parfitt

Great quote on Republicans

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.-Julia Roberts

Quote from Carlos Fuentes

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.-Carlos Fuentes(born 1928),Mexican writer.

Quote from George Crane

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure---make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.-George Crane

Quote on cramming

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal.But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.-William James(1842-1910).

Quote from Brooks Atkinson

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true.It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.-Brooks Atkinson(1894-1984)

Quote on poetry

Poetry:three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.-Charles Simic

Quote on family dinners

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion,preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.-M.F.K.Fisher

Quote on marriage

Marriage is not a simple love affair,it's an ordeal,and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.-Joseph Campbell(1904-1987),Author,editor,philosopher and anthropologist

Quote from Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age,of all other times,it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.-Charles Dickens

Quote from Michael Lipsey

If you really believe that all men are created equal,you are comfortable in any company.-Michael Lipsey.

Quote from Diane Von Furstenberg

I must have books everywhere.They're  the soul of the room-they reveal the taste,the interests,and the secrets of whoever lives there.-Fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg

198th list of 10 French songs you like

1.C'est Écrit Dans Le Ciel-Bob Azzam
2.Flagrant Délit(1986)-Herbert Léonard
3.Tombe La Neige-Salvatore Adamo
4.À l'Est d'Éden-Vicky Leandros
5.L'Amitié-Bernard Sauvat.(This song contains the line 'Où tu viens effacer mes petits nuages')
6.Les Moulins de Mykonos-Alain Morisod et Sweet People
7.Marin-Alain Morisod et Sweet People
8.California Blue-Alain Morisod et Sweet People
9.Sierra Madre-Alain Morisod et Sweet People
9.Si on Partait en vacances-Alain Morisod et Sweet People
10.Les Moulins de Mykonos-Alain Morisod et Sweet People
10.Marin-Petula Clark.

Great quote on bookcases

Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle.-May Lamberton Becker

Another quote from Michael Lipsey

Gaining control of your thoughts is as easy as sitting by the ocean and controlling the waves.-Michael Lipsey

Quote from Virginia Woolf

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.-Virginia Woolf,THE WAVES.

Quote from Vivienne Westwood

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.-Vivienne Westwood

Quote from Bob Bitchin

Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure.-Bob Bitchin

Quote from Hillaire Beloc

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.-Hillaire Belloc

Quote from Michael Lipsey

Some people would rather lose the relationship than the argument.-Michael Lipsey

Quote from Michael Lipsey

We find our own skin more fascinating than any abstract painting.-Michael Lipsey

Quote from Mark Twain

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.-Mark Twain

Quote from Marjorie Garber

Yesterday's neologisms,like yesterday's jargon,are often today's essential vocabulary.-Marjorie Garber,ACADEMIC INSTINCTS.

Quote from Michael Lipsey

We worry about losing our memory,yet there are things we wish we could forget.-Michael Lipsey

Quote from Arthur Conan Doyle

Of all ghosts,the ghosts of our loved ones are the worst.-Arthur Conan Doyle

Quote from Christian Barnard

Suffering isn't ennobling;recovery is.-Christian Barnard

Interesting quote from Theodore Roosevelt

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.The young are slaves to dreams;the old servants of regrets.Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.-Theodore Roosevelt

197th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Silver Bird-Alain Morisod et Sweet People.(This song begins with the lines 'Des aéroports qui se ressemblent/New York,Amsterdam ou Santiago).
2.Si Maman Si-France Gall
3.Les Sucettes(1966)-France Gall
4.Bombardier Ski-Doo-Les Jérolas
5.L'Amour et Moi-Les Jérolas(This song is a French version of the Elvis Presley song 'LOVE ME TENDER')
6.Les Goélands-Paolo Noel
7.La Marée-Paolo Noel
8.Tout Au Long-Nicole Cloutier
9.Nous Resterons Bons Amis-Nicole Cloutier
10.Quand Il Partira-Nicole Cloutier
10.Les Yeux Bleus-Roger Whittaker

Quote on technology

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.-Sherry Turkle

Quote on loneliness

Loneliness is failed solitude.-Sherry Turkle(born 1948),professor.

Quote on language

Language cannot be thrust into a vacuum and examined as though it were something existing apart from the people who devised it and the people who use it.To ignore the human origin,the human dependance,the human nexus,is fatal.-Eric Partridge,THE GENTLE ART OF LEXICOGRAPHY.

Quote from Donald Sadoway

If you want to make something dirt cheap,make it out of dirt-preferably dirt that is locally sourced.-Donald Sadoway(born 1950),professor.

Quote from George Scialabba

When you're a hammer,everything looks like a nail;and when you're a left-wing sorehead,everything is an occasion to damn the rich.-George Scialabba

Quote from Earl Wilson

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.-Earl Wilson(1907-1987).

Quote from Dwight Eisenhower

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.-Dwight D.Eisenhower

Quote from Jeff Rich

If you don't have anything nice to say---dead silence creates a lot of awkwardness.-Jeff Rich

Superb quote on modern education

Education is like pruning;it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society.-Tom Hodgkinson,HOW TO BE FREE.

Quote from Tom Hodgkinson

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves.-Tom Hodgkinson,HOW TO BE FREE.

Quote on jobs

The job was invented in order to make things easier for those at the top.-Tom Hodgkinson,HOW TO BE IDLE:A LOAFER'S MANIFESTO.

Great quote from Tom Hodgkinson

Long periods of languor,indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person to develop ideas.-Tom Hodgkinson,HOW TO BE IDLE:A LOAFER'S MANIFESTO.

Quote on career

Career is just posh slavery.-Tom Hodgkinson,THE FREEDOM MANIFESTO.

Quote from Alexander Smith

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.-Alexander Smith,DREAMTHORP.

196th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Le Chemin Du Paradis(1957)-Les Jérolas.(This song is a French version of the Perry Como 1954 hit song 'ROUND AND ROUND')
2.Buenas Noches Mi Amor(1957)-Michel Louvain
3.Candy(1969)-Donald Lautrec.
4.Chantons La bière et L'Amour-Les Jérolas
5.Sunny(1968)-Michel Pagliaro(This song is a French version of the 1966 Bobby Hebb song 'SUNNY')
6.La Dernière Cha Cha-Donald Lautrec
7.C'est L'été-Michel Pagliaro et Renée Martel
8.Mais Combien De Temps(1968)-Michel Pagliaro
9.Je Suis Perdu Sans Toi-Paolo Noel
9.Buenas Noches Mi Amor(1957)-Michel Louvain
10.Pauvre Petite Fille Riche-Michel Louvain
10.Grand-Père(1963)-Les Jérolas.

Quote from Bernard Baruch

Age is only a number,a cipher for the records.A man can't retire his experience.He must use it.-Bernard Baruch

Quote from Harry Mahtar

A lurking pun is the worst pun,one the offender has been waiting to spring on you.-Harry Mahtar

Insightful quote on demagogues

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.-Karl Kraus(1874-1936),Austrian journalist,critic,poet and playwright.

195th list of 10 French songs you like

1.L'Hirondelle-Nicole Cloutier.(This song is a French version of the Anne Murray hit song from 1970 'SNOWBIRD')
2.La Valse Des Rues-Paolo Noel
3.La Pluie-Nicole Cloutier
4.Tango De La Mauricie(1963)-Paolo Noel
5.Je Te Fais Confiance-Nicole Cloutier
6.La Pluie-Nicole Cloutier
7.Il Me Fait Penser à Toi-Nicole Cloutier.(This song is a French version of the 1972 song from Sammy Smith 'HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT.')
8.Chacun Pour Soi-Nicole Cloutier
9.Le Temps Du Soleil-Nicole Cloutier
10.Donne-moi encore la chance de t'aimer-Nicole Cloutier

Quote from Ron Suskind

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people,and quite another to lead them.-Ron Süskind,CONFIDENCE MEN:WALL STREET,WASHINGTON,AND THE EDUCATION OF A PRESIDENT.

194th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Les Aveux(1973)-Michel Delpech
2.Le Roi De Rien-Michel Delpech
3.Ding Ding-Dalida
4.Darla Dirladada(1970)-Dalida
5.Tu Me Fais Planer-Michel Delpech
6.Va Petite Étoile-Dalida
7.Elle Lui et L'Autre-Dalida
8.Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour etre heureux-Sacha Distel(with Henri Salvador)
9.Que Reste-t-il De Nos Amours-Charles Trenet
10.Mes Grands Prés Verts(1972)-Nicole Cloutier

Quote from C.S.Lewis

Hate obscures all distinctions.-C.S.Lewis

Quote from Tom Hodgkinson

When the going gets tough,the tough take a nap.-Tom Hodgkinson

Insightful quote on demagogues

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.-Henry Louis Mencken(1880-1956).

Quote from Constance Hale

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.-Constance Hale

Quote on digital music

Digital music is a picture of sound.-Neil Young

Quote from Bronislaw Malinowski

Questions of language are indeed the most important and central subject of all humanistic studies.-Bronislaw Malinowski,THE PROBLEM OF MEANING IN PRIMITIVE LANGUAGES.

Quote on daylight saving time

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time.With inflation,the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.-Victor Borge

193rd list of 10 French songs you like

1.Roule S'Enroule-Nana Mouskouri
2.Pour Le Plaisir(1981)-Herbert Leonard
3.La Majorette-Dany Aubé
4.Au Revoir Arrivederci-Dany Aubé
5.Zoom bye bye(1969)-Dany Aubé
6.La Valse Des Lilas-Pierre Sénecal
7.Si Demain-Raynald Papillon
8.Tu m'as eue-Nicole Cloutier
9.Fleurs de Papier-Nicole Cloutier
10.Moi je veux vivre ma vie-Nicole Cloutier.

Insightful quote from George Orwell

The great mass of human beings are not accurately selfish.After the age of about thirty they abandon individual ambition-in many cases,indeed,they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all and live chiefly for others,or are simply smothered under drudgery.But there is also the minority of gifted,wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end,and writers belong in this class.-George Orwell,WHY I WRITE.

Quote from K.Lindberg

Personally it's not God I dislike,it's his fan club I can't stand.-K.Lindberg

Great quote from Michael Caine

The basic rule of  human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly--because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.-Michael Caine,quoted in THE TIMES.

Good quote on leaders

A leader takes people where they want to go.A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go,but ought to be.-Rosalynn  Carter

Quote from Tamora Pierce

Without patience,magic would be undiscovered-in rushing everything,we should never hear its whisper inside.-Tamora Pierce,SANDRY'S BOOK.

Quote from Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Books that have become classics-books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal-always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit,find themselves retired on half pay.-Thomas Bailey Aldrich(T.B),PONKAPOG PAPERS.

Quote from Antonin Scalia

People look at rights as if they were muscles-the more you exercise them,the better they get.-Antonin Scalia(1936-2016)

Quote from Hunter S.Thompson

Faster,Faster,until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.-Hunter S.Thompson

Quote from Mary Norris

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.-Mary Norris,BETWEEN YOU AND ME:CONFESSIONS OF A COMMA QUEEN.

Quote from Carrie Underwood

Every day is a new day,and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.-Carrie Underwood

Quote on semcolons

Do not use semicolons.They are transvestite hermaphrodites,representing nothing.All they do is show you've been to college.-Kurt Vonnegut

Quote on moods

Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life.-Raheel Farooq

Quote on grammar

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.-Joan Didion,ESSAYS AND CONVERSATIONS.

Quote from Lex Martin

The past,the present and the future walked into a bar.It was tense.-Lex Martin,DEAREST CLEMENTINE.

Quote on old Americans

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die;old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.-Hunter S.Thompson,FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS.

Quote on Las Vegas

Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American dream.-Hunter S.Thompson

Quote from Hunter S.Thompson

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.-Hunter S.Thompson

Quote from Antonin Scalia

It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.-Antonin Scalia(1936-2016)

Quote on drama

Drama is very important in life:You have to come on with a bang---Everything can have drama if it's done right.Even a pancake.-Julia Child

A Sufi proverb

A donkey stabled in a library does not become literate.-Sufi proverb

192nd list of 10 French songs you like

1.La Place Vide(1963)-Nana Mouskouri.(This song is a French version of the Burt Bacharach song ``THIS EMPTY PLACE.'')
2.Chaque Instant De Chaque Jour-Dalida
3.Je n'ai jamais pu t'oublier(1964)-Dalida
4.Je m'ennuie-Pierre Létourneau
4.D'Amsterdam à Calcutta-Pierre Létourneau
5.Les Gens Qui Attendent L'Autobus(1972)-Pierre Létourneau
6.Mes Amis S'en Vont(1970)-Pierre Létourneau
7.La Vie De Ville-Pierre Létourneau
8.L'Eau Qui Dort-Nana Mouskouri.(This song is a French version of the song 'STILL WATERS RUN DEEP')
9.Revoir Montréal-Didier Barbelivien.(This song starts with the lines 'Si Mon Avion Replie ses Ailes à Dorval ou à Mirabel)
10.Le Ciel Bleu-Dalida
10.Les Nuits Sans Toi(1965)-Dalida
10.Plus Loin Que La Terre-Dalida

Quote on libraries

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends.-Tamora Pierce

Quote from Steven Pressfield

Most of us have two lives.The life we live,and the unlived life within us.-Steven Pressfield

Quote from Hunter S.Thompson

Who is the happier man,he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?-Hunter S.Thompson,THE PROUD HIGHWAY.

Quote from Tamora Pierce

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.-Tamora Pierce

Quote on personality

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.-F.Scott Fitzgerald

Quote on freedom

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.-Hunter S.Thompson,ANCIENT GONZO WISDOM.

Quote from Steven Levitt

No matter how expert you may be,well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.-Steven Levitt(born 1967),Economist.

Quote from C.S.Lewis

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.-C.S.Lewis,SURPRISED BY JOY:THE SHAPE OF MY EARLY LIFE.

191st list of 10 French songs you like

1.Mon Soldat-Les Élégantes.(This song is a French version of the HIT 1962 song 'SOLDIER BOY' by The Shirelles).
2.J'Inventerai L'Amour-Thérèse Deroy
3.Le Bleu Beat-Myriam Martin
4.Un Clin D'Oeil-Myriam Martin(This song is a French version of the 1963 song 'JUST ONE LOOK' by Doris Troy)
5.Un Autre Samedi Soir-Claude Vincent.(Claude Vincent is the brother of Québecois singer Pierre Sénecal).(This song is a French version of the song 'ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT' by Sam Cooke)
6.Comme Toujours-Salvatore Adamo
7.Seize Raisons-Candy.(This song is a French version of the song 'SIXTEEN REASONS' by Connie Stevens).
7.Tu Me Plais-Chantal Vallée.(This song is a French version of the Neil Sedaka song 'STUPID CUPID')
8.Fou D'Amour-Chantal Vallée.(This song is a French version of the song 'CRAZY LOVE')
9.24 Mille Baisers-Dalida
10.Que La Vie Était Jolie-Dalida

Quote from Hunter S.Thompson

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.-Hunter S.Thompson

Quote on money

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube.Easy to take out,hard to put back.-Earl Wilson

Hungarian proverb

Bargain like a gypsy,but pay like a gentleman.-Hungarian proverb

Quote on fear

Fear is a good thing.It means you're paying attention.-Tamora Pierce,PAGE.

Quote from Earl Wilson

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.-Earl Wilson

Quote from James Patterson

You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.-James Patterson,1ST TO DIE.

Quote on high blood pressure

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.-Earl Wilson(1907-1987).

Quote on courage

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.-Earl Wilson(1907-1987),journalist.

Quote from Earl Wilson

To sell something,tell a woman it's a bargain;tell a man it's deductible.-Earl Wilson

German proverb

Forever is a long bargain.-German proverb

An Indian proverb

Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.-Indian proverb

Quote from Hunter S.Thompson

It was the Law of the Sea,they said.Civilization ends at the waterline.Beyond that,we all enter the food chain,and not always right at the top.-Hunter S.Thompson

Quote from Harvey Mackay

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road,just the starting point for the next leap forward.-Harvey Mackay

Quote from James A.Garfield

Man cannot live by bread alone;he must have peanut butter.-James A.Garfield