Quote from Harry Belafonte

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.We are civilization's anchor.We are the compass for humanity's conscience.-Harry Belafonte

Famous people born on Christmas

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was born on December 25,1971.
     His brother Alexandre(Sacha)Trudeau was also born on Christmas day,December 25,1973.


Other famous people born on Christmas day:
1.Sir Isaac Newton(1642)
2.Movie actor Humphrey Bogart(1899)
3.Jazz musician Cab Calloway(1907)
4.Rod Serling(1924) of Twilight zone fame
5.Singer Jimmy Buffett(1946)
6.Football player Larry Csonka(1946)
7.Movie actress Sissy Spacek(1949)
8.Pop singer Annie Lennox(1954)

Quote from E.M.Forster

If there is on earth a house with many mansions,it is the house of words.-E.M.Forster

Quote from Toni Sorenson

Rock bottom demands we pay a price for the ride back to the top.-Toni Sorenson

Quote from Marisha Pessl

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom,you realize you're standing on another trap door.-Marisha Pessl

Quote from Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.-Richard Paul Evans

Quote from Michelle Parsons

Hitting rock bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.-Michelle Parsons

Quote from Andrea Benito

Your breakdown is a breakthrough.-Andrea Benito

Quote from Lucy Larcom

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heartstrings.-Lucy Larcom

Quote from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All love that has not friendship for its base,is like a mansion built upôn the sand.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Quote from Lucy Larcom

If the world's a veil of tears,smile till rainbows span it.-Lucy Larcom

Quote from Harry Belafonte

You can cage the singer but not the song.-Harry Belafonte

Quote on fiction

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions,but also one in which it is wise,at least sometimes,to swing from the chandeliers.-Michael Dirda

Quote from Clive Sinclair

This was the Wonder of advertising;the complete absence of cynicism.It may have many mansions,but it has no room for Doubting Thomases.-Clive Sinclair

Quote from Lucy Larcom

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.-Lucy Larcom

Quote from Gabrielle Reece

You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.-Gabrielle Reece

Quote from Richelle E.Goodrich

You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what there's more crud underneath those rocks.-Richelle E.Goodrich

Quote on peanut butter

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.-Florence Fabricant

Quote from J.K.Rowling

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.-J.K.Rowling

Quote from Violet Sueno

Hot chocolate is like a hug from the Inside.-Violet Sueno

Quote from Bobby Darin

Conceit is thinking you're great;egotism is knowing it.-Bobby Darin(1936-1973),American singer.

Quote from Morris West

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,you'll never enjoy the sunshine.-Morris West

Quote on alcohol

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy,but the bible says love your enemy.-Frank Sinatra(1915-1998).

Quote from Frank Sinatra

Don't hide your scars.They make you who you are.-Frank Sinatra(1915-1998)

Quote on Christmas

Christmas is a good time to take stock of our blessings.-Pat Boone,singer.

Quote on memories

Memories are like moonbeams,we do with them what we will.-Bobby Darin(1936-1973).

Quote on happiness

Happiness,you'll find,is the greatest magnet in the world.-Patti Page(1927-2013)

Quote on metamorphosis

True metamorphosis doesn't come with flowcharts.-David Mitchell

Quote from Alan Kay

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean counters,for it is its natural manure.-Alan Kay

Quote on cats

Cats seem too transdimensional to get hit by traffic,but it happens all the time.-David Mitchell,number9dream.

Another quote from Mario Puzo

There are honorable men who spend all their lives preparing for a supreme act of treachery.-Mario Puzo,OMERTA.

Quote from Mario Puzo

But time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty.-Mario Puzo

Brand of olive oil that you consumed in December 2016

In December 2016,you bought and finished consuming a 500 ml glass bottle of MUELOLIVA -Extra Virgin olive oïl (First cold-pressed).Product of Spain.
                                      This olive oïl was quite good.

Quote from Joyce Carol Oates

We are linked by blood,and blood is memory without language.-Joyce Carol Oates(1938-),U.S.author

Quote from Mario Puzo

The strength of a family,like the strength of an army,is in its loyalty to each other.-Mario Puzo(1920-1999),author.

Quote from George Kneller

To think creatively,we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.-George Kneller

Quote from Aesop

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.-Aesop

Quote on sunset

A Sunset is the sun's fiery kiss to the night.-Crystal Woods,WRITE LIKE NOONE IS READING 3.

Quote from Stephen King

Outside,daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.-Stephen King,THE RUNNING MAN.

Quote from B.Quilliam

There's a fine line between dreams and reality,it's up to you draw it.-B.Quilliam

Quote from Christopher Hitchens

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm Syndrome.-Christopher Hitchens

Quote from Dorothy Kilgallen

Doorman-a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand,help you with the other,and still have one left for the tip.-Dorothy Kilgallen

Quote from William Hazlitt

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise;of all arguments the most unanswerable.-William Hazlitt

Quote on goldfish

Now and then goldfish splish and gleam,like new pennies dropped in water.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS.

Quote from Arthur Gordon

Some criticism,no doubt,is constructive,but too much is a subtle poison.-Arthur Gordon,A TOUCH OF WONDER.

Quote from Sophie Kinsella

Maybe my identity's been stolen.Or maybe I was sleep-shopping!-Sophie Kinsella,MINI SHOPAHOLIC.

Quote on Malcolm de Chazal

Old age lives minutes slowly,hours quickly;childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.-Malcolm de Chazal

Quote from Sophie Kinsella

Sometimes you don't need a goal in life,you don't need to know the big picture.you just need to know what you're going to do next!-Sophie Kinsella,THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS.

Quote from Sophie Kinsella

Life's too short for minimalism.-Sophie Kinsella

Quote from Paulo Coelho

At every moment of our lives,we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.-Paulo Coelho

Great website on alternative fuels,very ecologically friendly

http://alcoholcanbeagas.com

Quote on civilization

Civilization's like the economy,or Tinkerbell:If people stop believing it's real,it dies.-David Mitchell,THE BONE CLOCKS.

Quote from Sophie Kinsella

People who want to make a million borrow a million first.-Sophie Kinsella

Quote on despair

Despair is as attractive as cold sores.-David Mitchell,THE BONE CLOCKS.

Quote from Sophie Kinsella

If you bother to ask someone's advice,then bother to listen to it.-Sophie Kinsella,CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC.

Quote on divorce

A divorce is like a controlled explosion.Everyone on the outside is ok.-Sophie Kinsella,WEDDING NIGHT.

Quote from Barack Obama

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.-Barack Obama,DREAMS FROM MY FATHER.

Quote on the body

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.-David Mitchell,number9 dream.

Quote on the elderly

Us elderly are the modern lepers.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS.

Quote from Howard Bloom

The individual is a cell in the social superorganism.When he feels he is no longer necessary to the larger group,he,too,begins to wither away.-Howard Bloom,THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE.

Quote on the ordered life

After a couple of months,a well-ordered life tastes like a flat,nonalcoholic lager.-David Mitchell,THE BONE CLOCKS.

Quote from Edward W.Said

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once-there has to be a limit.-Edward W.Said

Quote from Bertolt Brecht

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been.Why am in a hurry?-Bertolt Brecht

Quote on valium

Valium rubs out speech marks and pops thought-bubbles.-David Mitchell

Quote from George R.R.Martin

Laughter is poison to fear.-George R.R.Martin,A GAME OF THRONES.

Quote on colonialism

Colonialism.The enforced spread of the rule of reason.But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?-Anthony Burgess

Quote from Howard Bloom

There are no righteous societies;there are simply different degrees of depravity.-Howard Bloom,THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE.

Quote on purebloods

All purebloods have a hunger,a dissatisfaction in their eyes.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS.

Quote from David Mitchell

The wisdom of skin is underappreciated.-David Mitchell,THE BONE CLOCKS.

Quote on wars

Wars are never cured,they just go into remission for a few years.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS.

Quote on idlers

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS

Quote from David Mitchell

How do you smuggle daydreams into reality?-David Mitchell,number9 dream

Quote from Shannon Hale

Giving in to despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.-Shannon Hale,FOREST BORN.

Quote on caution

Fear hardens caution,but boredom erodes it.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS.

Quote on modesty

Modesty is vanity's craftier stepbrother.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS.

Quote on beauty

Beauty is immune to definition.-David Mitchell,BLACK SWAN GREEN.

Quote from Joan Didion

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.-Joan Didion

Quote on humor

Humor is the ovum of dissent.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS

Quote from David Mitchell

If people praise you,you're not walking your own path.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS

Quote from E.B.White

The world is full of people who have never,since childhood,met an open doorway with an open mind.-E.B.White(1899-1985).

Brand of olive oil you consumed in December 2016

In December 2016,you bought and finished consuming a 500 ml glass bottle of OLEIVA extra-virgin olive oil.It was a product of Tunisia.This olive oil was quite good.

Quote on hate

Dogs hate foxes.Nazis hate Jews.Hate doesn't even need a why.Who or even what is ample.-David Mitchell

Quote on cynicism

Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS.

Quote on the upper crust

Any society's upper crust is riddled with immorality,how else do you think they keep their power?Reputation is king of the public sphere,not private.It is dethroned by public acts.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS.

Quote on nicknames

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.-William Hazlitt(1778-1830)

Quote on faith

Faith,the least exclusive club on Earth,has the craftiest doorman.-David Mitchell

Quote on fury

Fury forges will.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS.

Quote from David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest pastime.-David Mitchell,CLOUD ATLAS.

Quote on boardrooms

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases,hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.-Alan Kay

Interesting quote from Ellen Goodman

We want our children to fit in and to stand out.We rarely address the conflict between these goals.-Ellen Goodman

Quote from Victoria Schwab

But after a year of tiptoeing through our lives,trying not to set off memories like landmines.-Victoria Schwab

Quote from Victoria Scwab

There's a big difference between can't and won't.-Victoria Schwab,THIS SAVAGE SONG.

Quote on knowledge

Knowledge is silver.Outlook is gold.IQ is a lead weight.-Alan Kay

Quote on technology

Technology is anything invented after you were born.-Alan Kay

Quote on lovers

Lovers communicate not inside sentences,but between them.Passion lurks within interstice.It is grouting rather than bricks.-Lionel Shriver

Quote from Lisa See

Give a low man one ounce of power and he'll throw ten thousand pounds of brick on your head.-Lisa See

Quote from Oscar Wilde

I like talking to a brick wall-it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!-Oscar Wilde

Great quote on moods

Good moods are as fragile as eggs---Bad moods are as fragile as bricks.-David Mitchell

Quote on journalism

In journalism,there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.-Ellen Goodman

Quote from Henry Rollins

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.-Henry Rollins

Quote on dreams

But the fact is ,dreams catch us with our armor off.-Victoria Schwab

Quote on fear

Fear is a strong thing.It has the power to make people close their eyes,turn away.Nothing good grows out of fear.-Victoria Schwab

Another quote from Ellen Goodman

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.-Ellen Goodman

Quote from Ellen Goodman

Age is an accumulation of life and loss.Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.-Ellen Goodman

Quote on women

If women can sleep their way to the top,how come they aren't there?-Ellen Goodman

Quote from Martha Cecilia

Love outweighs the liabilities.-Martha Cecilia

Great quote from Victoria Schwab

Ignorance may be bliss,but only if it outweighs curiosity.Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.-Victoria Schwab

Quote on parenthood

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.-Ellen Goodman

Quote on literature

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.-T.S.Eliot

Quote from Rachel Caine

You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville?
Mobile bloodbanks.-Rachel Caine,MIDNIGHT ALLEY.

Quote from Phyllis Diller

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.-Phyllis Diller

Quote from Dean Koontz

Our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.-Dean Koontz

Quote from Henry Van Dyke

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.-Henry Van Dyke

Quote on art

Art is the only answer to chaos and the void.-Dean Koontz,VELOCITY

Quote on research

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?-Will Harvey

Quote from Ransom Riggs

I never remember nice dreams;only the bad ones stick.-Ransom Riggs,HOLLOW CITY.

Quote from Wendy Liebman

I've been on so many blind dates,I should get a free dog.-Wendy Liebman

Quote from Margaret Culkin Banning

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.-Margaret Culkin Banning

Quote from Sophie Kinsella

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable,like videos.-Sophie Kinsella

Quote from Orison Marden

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.-Orison Marden

Quote from Tyler Shields

Lips are the fingerprints of love.-Tyler Shields

Quote from Bill Maher

Things aren't right.If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him,he can sue you.For what,restraint of trade?-Bill Maher

Quote from James Chiles

Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.-James Chiles

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

The faults of the burglar are the quality of the financier.-George Bernard Shaw

Some interesting websites and blogs

1 www.offtrackthinkers.com
2  http://primedforyourlife.com
3 www.beatnikphotography.com

Quote from Jim Rohn

Motivation alone is not enough.If you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.-Jim Rohn

Another quote from Ransom Riggs

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.-Ransom Riggs,HOLLOW CITY.

Quote from Ransom Riggs

When someone won't let you in,eventually you stop knocking.-Ransom Riggs,MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN.

Quote from Judy Tenuta

What do men want?Men want a mattress that cooks.-Judy Tenuta

Quote from Rick Moranis

Evil will always triumph,because good is dumb.-Rick Moranis(born 1953),actor.

Quote from Judy Tenuta

I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.-Judy Tenuta(born 1956).

Quote from Joy Behar

I don't need a diet pill.I need something that gives you an electric shock when you search for food.-Joy Behar(born 1942),comedian

Quote from Judy Tenuta

Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you.-Judy Tenuta

Quote on doubt

Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft.-Ransom Riggs,LIBRARY OF SOULS.

Quote from Minnie Aumonier

When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy,there is always the garden.-Minnie Aumonier

Quote from Ransom Riggs

You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.-Ransom Riggs

Quote from Judy Gold

My doctor said I had OCD.I couldn't believe it.I had to call him nine times to make sure.-Judy Gold,comedienne.

Quote from John Mark Green

Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles,and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.-John Mark Green

Quote from Christian Baloga

Pay no attention to toxic words.What people say is often a reflection of themselves,not you.-Christian Baloga

Quote from Stefan Molyneux

Anger is the immune system of the soul.-Stefan Molyneux

Quote on fear

Fear can't hurt you.When it washes over you,give it no power.It's a snake with no venom.-Maureen Johnson

Quote from Chanakya

Even if a snake is not poisonous,it should pretend to be venomous.-Chanakya

Quote from Jay Dratler

I don't use a pen.I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.-Jay Dratler

Quote from Khalil Gibran

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans.-Khalil Gibran

Quote from Terry Winograd

The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.-Terry Winograd,"THINKING MACHINES:CAN THERE BE?ARE WE?''

Quote on capitalism

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.-Chris Hedges

Quote on education

The true purpose of education is to make minds,not careers.-Chris Hedges