Quote from Will Rogers

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.-Will Rogers

Quote from C.S.Lewis

The humblest praise most,while cranks and malcontents praise least.Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible.-C.S.Lewis

Quote from Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.-Salvador Dali

Quote on writing

Writing is an act of faith,not a trick of grammar.-E.B.White

Quote from Martin H.Fischer

Don't despise empiric truth.Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.-Martin H.Fischer

Quote from Berzelius

A tidy laboratory means a lazy chemist.-Jons Jacob Berzelius

Quote from Isaac Asimov

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely.It is,after all,so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.-Isaac Asimov

Quote from Norman Cousins

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.-Norman Cousins

Quote from Christopher Lasch

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.-Christopher Lasch

Quote from Martin H.Fischer

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.-Martin H.Fischer

Quote from Hyman Rickover

God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.-Hyman Rickover

Quote from Ben Fountain

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'-Ben Fountain

Quote from Paulo Coelho

If we slow down everything lasts longer.-Paulo Coelho,in THE WITCH OF PORTEBELLO.

Quote from Margaret Atwood

The young habitually mistake lust for love,they're infested with idealism of all kinds.-Margaret Atwood,THE BLIND ASSASSIN.

Quote from Kurt Vonnegut

``Tis better to have love and lust
Than to let our apparatus rust.-Kurt Vonnegut,GOD BLESS YOU,DR.KEVORKIAN.

Quote on jazz

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.-Branford Marsalis

Quote from Jack Anderson

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.-Jack Anderson

Unusual quote on marriage

After a while,marriage is a sibling relationship-marked by occasional,and rather regrettable,episodes of incest.-Martin Amis

Quote on languages

Languages ae the pedigree of nations.-Samuel Johnson

Quote from Jon Bon Jovi

Passion,not pedigree,will win in the end.-Jon Bon Jovi

Quote from Trudy Metzger

Denial forces victims to retreat in lifeless existence,dieting in the shadows of buried trauma and painful memories.-Trudy Metzger

Quote from Lionel Shriver

---Some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil some pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.-Lionel Shriver,WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN.

Quote from Ben Fountain

Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.-Ben Fountain(born 1958),American writer

Quote from Gore Vidal

How hungrily we read about ourselves!-Gore Vidal,Julian.

Quote from John Updike

Suspect each moment,for it is a thief,tiptoeing away with more than it brings.-John Updike

Quote from Sam Levenson

Don't Watch the clock;do what it does.Keep going.-Sam Levenson

Quote from Channing Tatum

Everyone's a nerd inside.I don't care how cool you are.-Channing Tatum

Quote from Violet Haberdasher

If you like nerds,raise your hand.If you don't,raise your standards.-Violet Haberdasher

Quote from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them;nerdiness the reverse.-Nassim NIcholas Taleb

Quote from William Trogdon

There are two kinds of adventurers:those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.-William Trogdon

Quote on shyness

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism,a belief that how we look,how we perform,is truly important to other people.-André Dubus

Quote on fragrance

Inhaling fragrance is to snatch time and memory and hold it tight if only for a fleeting moment.-Marian Bendeth,SIXTH SCENTS.

Quote on perfume

A great perfume will weave an emotional thread in the fabric of our lives.-Marian Bendeth,SIXTH SCENTS.

Interesting quote from Sterling Hayden

The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience.Before we know it,the tomb is sealed.-Sterling Hayden,WANDERER.

Quote on perfume

Perfume can instigate an instant intimacy with a complete stranger.-Marian Bendeth,Global frahrance expert,SIXTH SCENTS.

Quote from Sterling Hayden

In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives are gone.-Sterling Hayden,WANDERER.

Great quote on fragrance

Fragrance should never be worn like a thick scented choker,where the scent emanates from the neck in strong blasts like a foghorn!Rather,it should sparkle us like twinkling stars,where small bursts disperse here and there,they elude us,pique our curiosity and make us want more.-Marian Bendeth,Global fragrance expert.

Quote from Steve Maraboli

One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.-Steve Maraboli

Another quote from Derek Walcott

Break a vase,and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its
symmetry for granted when it was whole.-Derek Walcott(born 1930),poet.

A sleep camel

A sleep camel-A person who gets lots of sleep on the weekend in order to get by on less sleep in the coming week.

Quote from Derek Walcott

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.-Derek Walcott(born 1930),poet.

Quote from Aaron Sorkin

Oratory should raise your heart rate.Oratory should blow the doors off the place.-Aaron Sorkin

Quote on bigots

A bigot is a stone-deaf orator.-Kahlil Gibran,SAND AND FOAM.

Quote on oratory

Oratory is dying:a calculating age has stabbed it to the heart with innumerable dagger-thrusts of statistics.-Keith Hancock,AUSTRALIA.

Quote from Gregor Collins

It's one of the magical things about life,that when you hit a wall,you step back genuinely and humbly---and the answers suddenly flow like a babbling brook.-Gregor Collins

Quote from Rob Kalin

I don't think an economic slump will hurt good ideas.-Rob Kalin,ETSY.

Quote from Steve Jobs

I want to put a ding in the universe.-Steve Jobs

Quote from Andrew Mason

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.-Andrew Mason,GROUPON.

Olive oil brand that you consumed in May 2016

In May 2016,you bought and finished consuming a 1 Litre glass bottle of SPERONI Extra Virgin olive oïl-Obtained from extra-Virgin olive oils of the European Union.It was quite good.

Quote from Thomas Sowell

Most people who read 'The Communist Manifesto' probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives,and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of " the workers."-Thomas Sowell(born 1930),American writer,newspaper columnist and economist.

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is the archives of history.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,THE POET.

Quote from Drew Houston

Learn early,learn often.-Drew Houston,DROPBOX.

Great quote on nerds

Be nice to nerds.Chances are you"ll end up working for one.-Bill Gates

Quote from Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness  and a babbling brook to nowhere.-Dan Harmon(born 1973)

Quote on music

Music,my rampart and my only one.-Edna St.Vincent Millay

Quote on lies

Lies come as natural as the babbling of a creek.-Daniel H.Wilson

Quote from EdnaSt.Vincent Millay

The younger generation forms acountry of its own.-Edna Vincent St.Millay

214th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Ceux que J'Aime-Vicky Leandros
2.Deux Enfants De Même Age(1959)-Germaine Dugas
3.Forts de nos vingt ans(1962)-Germaine Dugas
4.À La Vie(1960)-Germaine Dugas
5.En Parlant De Lui(1967)-Monique Brunet
6.Comme Une Route(1960)-Germaine Dugas
7.Je Suis Un Romantique-Claude Michel
8.Je T'Attendrai My Love-Alain Morisod and Sweet People
9.Un Disque d'Amour-Michèle Torr
10.Vois Comme C'est Beau-Martin Pelletier(This sog contains the line 'Les Enfants Vivent Comme des Oiseaux')

Quote from Italo Calvino

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language;it stretches  out from the utmost limits  of what can be said;what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.-Italo Calvino,THE LITERATURE MACHINE.

Quote on childhood

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.-Edna St.Vincent Millay

Quote from Walter Benjamin

The work of memory collapses time.-Walter Benjamin

Great quote on the Internet

It's been my policy to view The Internet not as an 'information highway',but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.-Mike Royko(1932-1997),American newspaper columnist and journalist.

Quote from Rod Serling

If you need drugs to be a good writer,you are not a good writer.-Rod Serling

Quote from Johnnie Dent Jr.

You are the posterity of your family.You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.-Johnnie Dent Jr.

Great quote from Comte de Mirabeau

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.-Comte de Mirabeau

Quote on language

Language is only homeland.-Czeslaw Milosz

Quote from Maya Angelou

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.-Maya Angelou

Quote from Robert Louis Stevenson

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner:that,in the dinner,the sweets come last.-Robert Louis Stevenson

Quote from Phyllis Battelle

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart,you have been cheated by nature.-Phyllis Battelle

Quote from Johann Kaspar Lavater

There are three classes of men:the retrograde,the stationary and the progressive.-Johann Kaspar Lavater,Swiss theologian(1741-1801).

Quote from Rod Serling

There are weapons that are simply thoughts.For the record,prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.-Rod Serling

Quote from John Steinbeck

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.-John Steinbeck,THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Quote from Thornton Wilder

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.-Thornton Wilder,THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH.

Quote from Russell Hoban

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.-Russell Hoban

Quote from Joe Queenan

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime,or even 600,it's probably because at some level,you find 'reality'a bit of a disappointment.-Joe Queenan

Quote on language

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a Framework for it.-Benjamin Lee Whorf

Quote from Laurence J.Peter

If two wrongs don't make a right,try three.-Laurence J.Peter

Quote on translation

Translation is the art of failure.-Umberto Eco

Quote on elections

The elections are run by the same companies that sell toothpaste on television.-Noam Chomsky

Quote from Russell Hoban

Language is an archeological vehicle---the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.-Russel Hoban

Quote on women's liberation

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex.-Earl Wilson

Quote from Kerry E.Wagner

You don't have to worry about burning bridges,if you're building your own.-Kerry E.Wagner

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not hesitate to read---all good books in translations.What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,ON SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.

Quote from Lilian Jackson Braun

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.-Lilian Jackson Braun(1913-2011),THE CAT WHO TALKED TO GHOSTS.

Quote from Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses,proceeds then to the understanding,and ends with reason.There is nothing higher than reason.-Immanuel Kant

Great quote on books

People who prefer e-books ---think that books merely take up space.That is true,but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.-Joe Queenan,ONE FOR THE BOOKS.

Another quote from Lilian Jackson Braun

The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee.If he doesn't comment,he is not to be trusted.-Lilian Jackson Braun(1913-2011)

Quote from Lilian Jackson Braun

My days keep getting shorter.When I'm a hundred,I'll be going to bed before I get up.-Lilian Jackson Braun(1913-2011),THE CAT WHO SNIFFED GLUE.

Quote from Joe Queenan

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.-Joe Queenan

German proverb

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.-German proverb

Another quote from George Lucas

Always remember,your focus determines your reality.-George Lucas

Quote from George Lucas

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.-George Lucas(born 1944)

Quote from Bruce McCall

Mayhem achieved,boredom relieved.-Bruce McCall

213th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Vertige De L'Amour-Alain Bashtung
2.Nous Irons à Vérone-Charles Aznavour
3.Le Vin Me Saoule-Nicolas Peyrac
4.Je Rêve d'être princesse-Ginette Sage
5.Je Crois-Ginette Sage
6.Oh Jacques-Ginette Sage
7.Toi L'Amour-Ginette Sage
8.J'ai tant de peine-Ginette Sage
9.Quatre Heures du Matin-Ginette Sage
10.Jolie Femme-Réal Pascal et Les Rockatones (This song is a French version of the Roy Orbison hit 1965 song 'PRETTY WOMAN')

Quote from Ian McEwan

Where the human need for order meets the human tendency to mayhem,where civilization runs smack against its discontents,you find friction,and a great deal of general wear and tear.-Ian McEwan

Quote on fear

Fear is the path to the dark side.Fear leads to anger.Anger leads to hate.Hate leads to suffering.-George Lucas(born 1944)

Quote on good luck

Good luck has its storms.-George Lucas

Quote from Alexander The Great

I am indebted to my father for living,but to my teacher for living well.-Alexander The Great

Quote from Oleg Cassini

I spent half  my life being hurt.The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture,like a dog that salivates.-Oleg Cassini

Quote on saliva

Saliva has testosterone and estrogen.When you kiss ,you're having a chemical experience.-Helen Fisher

Quote from Steven Pinker

If you give people literacy,bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried,and lessons will accumulate.-Steven Pinker

Quote from Neil Shubin

We were not designed rationally,but are products of a convoluted history.-Neil Shubin

Quote from H.G.Wells

Biologically,the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.-H.G.Wells

Quote from Richard Black

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.-Richard Black

Quote from Stephan Pastis

It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance,preferably separated by bars.-Stephan Pastis

Quote from Dan Fagin

A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste:The wealthy throw out what they do not want,the poor scavenge what they can and whatever remains is left to rot.-Dan Fagin,TOM'S RIVER:A STORY OF SCIENCE AND SALVATION.

Quote from James Baldwin

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line,banishment from all the living,and tend to do what I then did-which was to hide.-James Baldwin

Quote from Rudyard Kipling

We have forty million reasons for failure,but not a single excuse.-Rudyard Kipling