Quote on internet research

Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by packrats and vandalized nightly.-Roger Ebert

Quote from Jane Hirshfield

The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.-Jane Hirshfield

Quote from Roger Ebert

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.-Roger Ebert

Quote from Wes Craven

Horror films don't create fear.They release it.-Wes Craven

Quote on self-satisfaction

But self-satisfaction,if as buoyant as gas,has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown,and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Agnes Repplier

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!-Agnes Repplier

Quote on diaries

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness,a candor,conscious or unconscious,a closeness of outlook,which gratifies our sense of security.Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass.We may not see far and wide,but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Agnes Repplier

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Ben Elton

I see dull people as projects---to be reformed.-Ben Elton,TWO BROTHERS.

Great quote on fear

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.-Samuel Butler

Quote from Ernest Hemmingway

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.-Ernest Hemmingway,DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON.

Quote on letters

Letters form a by-path of literature,a charming,but occasional,retreat for people of cultivated leisure.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Agnes Repplier

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us.It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Susan Cain

Everyone shines,given the right lighting.-Susan Cain

Quote from Michael Korda

Never reveal all of yourself to other people;hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.-Michael Korda

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

God enters by a private door in every individual.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote on relationships

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable,but it is the little differences that make them interesting.-Todd Ruthman

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever course you decide upon,there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.To map out a course of action and to follow it to an end requires courage.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Todd Ruthman

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself.You can't hope for a fairer match.-Todd Ruthman

Quote from Michael Korda

The image you project in many circumstances,is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.-Michael Korda

Subway desert

Subway desert-An urban area that is underserved by the city's subway system.

Quote from William Stead

The Press is at once the eye and the ear and the tongue of the people.It is the visible speech,if not the voice,of the democracy.It is the phonograph of the world.-William Stead,GOVERNMENT BY JOURNALISM.

Brand of Canola oil that you just finished consuming

In July 2016,you finished consuming a 3 Litre plastic tub of ILIOS canola oil.It was quite good.

Quote on victims

Sympathy for victims is always counterbalanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.-Ben Elton

218th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Les Derniers Seront Les Premiers-Celine Dion
2.Nous-Herve Vilard
3.Mediterannee-Herve Vilard
4.L'Oiseau S'en Va-Claude Dubois
5.Comme Joe Dassin-Les Cowboys Fringants
6.Aye Aye Je L'Aime-Enrico Macias
7.Parler A Mon Pere-Celine Dion
8.Et Mon Coeur En Prend La Gueule-Isabelle Boulay
9.Lucille-Patrick Normand
10.Monia-Alain Morisod et Sweet People

Quote on concentration

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.-Michael Korda

Quote from Michael Korda

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.-Michael Korda

Facebook

In July 2016 there are about a billion people around the world on Facebook.Facebook is the third largest country in the world.

Transnational suburb

Transnational suburb-A suburb made up mostly of immigrants who maintain strong ties to their home countries.

Question on literature

Q.Which was the first American novel to sell a million copies?
Answer. Uncle Tom's Cabin -by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question on Tupperware

Q.In which year was Tupperware introduced?
Answer.1946

Quote from Michael Korba

Never walk away from failure.On the contrary,study it carefully for its hidden assets.-Michael Korda

Quote from Ruth Ann Schabacker

Each day comes bearing its own gifts.Untie the ribbons.-Ruth Ann Schabacker

Chemistry question

Q.Besides mercury which is the only other element in the periodic table that exists in liquid form at room temperature?
Answer.Bromium

Quote from Rebecca Solnit

Given a choice between their world view and the facts,it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.-Rebecca Solnit

Quote from Michael Korda

The more you dream,the more you can do.-Michael Korda

Quote on momentum

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.-Michael Korda

Quote from Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.-Michael Korda

Quote from Stephen R.Covey

While we are free to choose our actions,we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.-Stephen R.Covey

Quote from Mineko Iwasaki

Stab the body and it heals,but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.-Mineko Iwasaki

Quote on gossip

Gossip,unlike river water,flows both ways.-Michael Korda

Quote from Jack Adam Weber

The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.-Jack Adam Weber

Quote on slang

What lies behind [slang] is simply a kind of linguistic exuberance,an excess of word-making energy.It relates itself to the standard language  a great deal as dancing relates itself to music.-H.L.Mencken,THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE.

Quote from Joan Rivers

Life is so difficult and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.-Joan Rivers

Quote from Michael Korda

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules,while quietly playing by your own.-Michael Korda

Quote from Roger Ebert

Your intellect may be confused,but your emotions will never lie to you.-Roger Ebert

Quote from Allan Metcalf

It may help to think of language as a great field of word plants.Whenever most people focus their attention on one subject,it's like a great dose of fertilizer and rain on that portion of the field.Existing words grow and flower into new meanings.Nouns sprout verbs.-Allan Metcalf,THE WASHINGTON POST.

Quote from Fran Lebowitz

Spilling your guts is exactly as charming as it sounds.-Fran Lebowitz,SOCIAL STUDIES.

Quote from Edward Hopper

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.-Edward Hopper

Quote from Oscar Wilde

Well,the way of paradoxes is the way of truth,To test reality we must see it on the tightrope.When the verities become acrobats,we can judge them.-Oscar Wilde

Quote from David Grayson

We fail more often by timidity than by overdaring.-David Grayson

Quote from Nicholson Baker

Without some sort of anxiousness writing loses its charm.-Nicholson Baker,U AND I.

Quote from Washington Irving

A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.-Washington Irving,RIP VAN WINKLE.

Insightful quote on the English language

English became what it did from its overwhelming receptivity to input from the outside,especially in the Age of Empire and the Age of Industry.Now in the Digital Age,it's doing it again---following its natural ebb and flow of the tides of change.For those who would pull up the moat,who would turn English into a museum,who would laminate the dictionaries so that nothing new can be added or amended,a la the French Academy,I say be careful what you wish for.-Ruth Wajnryb,THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.

Quote from Agnes Repplier

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity to understand anything.-Agnes Repplier

Quote on artists

Artists don't create society;they reflect it.-Ben Elton,POPCORN.

Quote from Ben Elton

You didn't wake up,your dreams just changed gear.-Ben Elton,BLAST FROM THE PAST.

Quote from Agnes Repplier

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations,the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live,the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold,which has cost us,among other things,the undistrurbed enjoyment of friends.Friendship takes time,and we have no time to give it.-Agnes Repplier

Quote on swearing

No one is ever capable of swearing properly in any language other than their own.-Ben Elton,LOVE AMONG THE RADICALS.

Quote from Denise Tanner

Time is a very healing place,one in which you can grow.-Denise Tanner

Quote from Regina Brett

Cry with someone.It's more healing than crying alone.-Regina Brett

Quote from Joel Osteen

Sometimes,God uses difficult people,like sandpaper,to rub the rough edges off us.-Joel Osteen

Quote from Agnes Repplier

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from David Hockney

People tend to forget that play is serious.-David Hockney

Quote on economics

Economics and ethics have little in common.-Agnes Repplier

Quote on pessimists

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual.His creed breeds indifference to others,and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.-Agnes Repplier

Quote on democracy

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities,between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.-Agnes Repplier

Quote on cats

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Agnes Repplier

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind,as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.-Agnes Repplier(1855-1950)

Quote from Rowan Moore

If you can tell a man by his shoes,you can tell a city by its pavements.-Rowan Moore

Quote from Agnes Repplier

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.-Agnes Repplier

Quote on history

History is not written in the interests of morality.-Agnes Repplier

Quote on letter-writing

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Edward Abbey

The longest journey begins with a single step,not with a turn of the ignition key.-Edward Abbey

Quote on erudition

Erudition,like a bloodhound,is a charming thing when held firmly in leash,but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.-Agnes Repplier(1855-1950)

Quote on laughter

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.-Agnes Repplier

Quote on misuded words

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.-Agnes Repplier

Quote on the clear-sighted

The clear-sighted do not rule the world,but they sustain and console it.-Agnes Repplier

Great quote from Leymah Growee

You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.-Leymah Growee

Great quote from Agnes Repplier

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Agnes Repplier

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from W.H.Auden

Routine,in an intelligent man,is a sign of ambition.-W.H.Auden

Quote from Ernest Hemmingway

The only thing that could spoil a day was people.People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.-Ernest Hemmingway

Quote on historians

A historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.-Agnes Repplier(1855-1950)

Quote from Agnes Repplier

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Agnes Repplier

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.-Agnes Repplier

Quote from Annie Dillard

I had hopes for my rough edges.I wanted to use them as a can opener,to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.-Annie Dillard

Quote from Agnes Repplier

Necessity knows no Sunday.-Agnes Repplier(1855-1950),essayist.

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.-Ralph Waldo Emerson,THE MAN OF LETTERS.

Quote from Harriet Rubin

To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.-Harriet Rubin

Quote from Deborah Norville

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.-Deborah Norville

Quote on nostalgia

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.-Doug Larson

Quote on funerals

Some people hate funerals.I find them comforting.They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end.Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash,that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.-Regina Brett

Quote from George Eliot

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:-in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact,instead of floating among cloud-pictures.-George Eliot,DANIEL DERONDA.

Quote from Regina Brett

Growing old beats the alternative-dying young.-Regina Brett,CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER,May 28,2006.

Quote from Woody Allen

Sentence structure is innate but whining is acquired.-Woody Allen,REMEMBERING NEEDLEMAN.

Quote from August Wilson

Confront the dark parts of yourself,and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness.Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.Use the pain as a fuel,as a reminder of your strength.-August Wilson

Quote from Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.-Thomas Fuller

Quote from Stella Adler

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.-Stella Adler

Quote from hope

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point-a cactus,not a cushion.-H.Jackson Brown ,Jr.

Quote from W.Clement Stone

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.-W.Clement Stone

Quote from Jhumpa Lahiri

The first sentence of a book is a handshake,perhaps an embrace.-Jhumpa Lahiri

Quote from John Dewey

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.-John Dewety