Quote from Lionel Shriver

Giving anyone anything takes courage,since so many presents backfire.A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.-Lionel Shriver

Quote on free speech

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it,free speech assaults always backfire:they transform bigots into martyrs.-Glenn Greenwald

Timely quote on hate crimes

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing?Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.-Harvey Fierstein

Quote on detective stories

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.-P.D.James

Quote from P.D.James

There comes a time when every scientist,even God,has to write off an experiment.-P.D.James

Quote on murder

Murder is the unique crime,the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.-P.D.James

Hippopotamuses

Hippopotamuses give birth in the water.

Quote on unnatural death

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease,an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.-P.D.James,THE LIGHTHOUSE.

Tehrangeles

Tehrangeles is a neighbourhood in central Los Angeles that has a very large Iranian population.
                                           Los Angeles has the highest Iranian population outside of Iran in the world,in 2017.

Quote from Tina Fey

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.-Tina Fey

Quote from Elbert Hubbard

Life is unrest,and its passage at best a zigzag course,that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years.-Elbert Hubbard

An inspiring quote

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic,you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.-Zig Ziglar

Olive oil brand that I consumed in February 2017

In February 2017,you bought and consumed a 500ml glass bottle of CHRISTINE CUSHING'S bold
Extra Virgin Olive Oil.Product of Greece.
                                This olive oil was wonderful.

Quote on success

The secret to my success is actually simple:I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.-Max Hawthorne

Quote from Rick Bragg

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity,no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.-Rick Bragg

Quote on success

Success is dependent upon the glands-sweat glands.-Zig Ziglar

Quote on optimists

An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him.-Zig Ziglar

Quote on writers

A writer's mind is like a teapot.The words build up in your head until you just gotta let 'em out.-Max Hawthorne

Quote from Max Hawthorne

Is the pen mightier than the sword?I suppose that depends on how sharp the pen is,and the strength of the warrior wielding it.-Max Hawthorne

Quote from Sue Grafton

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac,the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love,and most of the time they're right-a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five.All those potential killers passing their plates.-Sue Grafton,A IS FOR ALIBI.

Quote from Max Hawthorne

Inspiration is like perspiration.It tends to strike at the most inopportune of times.-Max Hawthorne

Quote on fear

Fear is a communicable disease;it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host.Fear is an incendiary agent;it combusts with stupidity.-Brian McGeevy,HEMLOCK GROVE.

Quote from Jinger Heath

Look for opportunity.You can't wait for it to knock on the door---you might not be home.-Jinger Heath

Quote from Hunter S.Thompson

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.-Hunter S.Thompson

Superrecogniser

Superrecogniser-Someone who is exceptionally good at remembering or recognizing faces.
                                  Superrecognisers often help police in solving unsolved crimes and murders.

Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia is the inability to remember or recognize faces.
                 Prosopagnosics are people who suffer from face blindness or the inability to recognize and remember familiar faces.About 2% of the population suffers from prosopagnosia.

Quote from Adria J.Cimino

There is no reason for verbosity in the olfactory world.Less is more.-Adria J.Cimino,A PERFUMER'S SECRET.

Quote from Kishore Bansal

Your children are the perfume of your tool.-Kishore Bansal

Quote from P.D.James

We are more merciful to our animals[cats] than to each other.-P.D.James

Quote on creativity

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism,coercion and fear.-P.D.James

Quote from James Matthew Barrie

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.-James Matthew Barrie(1860-1937),Scottish dramatist and novelist,the creator of Peter Pan

Quote from Jennifer Hudson

Don't be afraid of the answers.Be afraid of not asking the questions.-Jennifer Hudson

Quote from Jane Goodall

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.-Jane Goodall

Quote on suicide

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts,inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.-P.D.James

Quote on old age

Old age makes caricatures of us all.-P.D.James,mystery novelist

Quote from Shannon Alder

The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on sin

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence.Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying him.-P.D.James

Quote from P.D.James

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.-P.D.James

Quote from Sigmund Freud

The very emphasis of the commandment:Thou shall not kill,makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers,whose love of murder was in their blood as it perhaps also in ours.-Sigmund Freud

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the sunshine,swim the sea,drink the wild air.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many paintings welded together.-Charles Dickens

Two British psychologists who committed suicide

British psychologist Petruska Clarkson committed suicide in 2006.
British psychologist Jon Driver,49,committed suicide in 2011.

Quote on fear

Fear is the devil to hide.-P.D.James,COVER HER FACE.

Insightful quote on political correctness

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism,and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.-P.D.James(1920-2014)

Quote from Abraham Joshua Heschel

The course of life is unpredictable,no one can write his autobiography in advance.-Abraham Joshua Heschel

Quote on Humpty Dumpty

When I heard Humpty Dumpty I wondered did he fall or was he pushed?-P.D.James

Insightful quote from P.D.James

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.-P.D.James,THE CHILDREN OF MEN.

Quote on television

The television image sanctified,conferred identity.The more familiar the face,the more to be trusted.-P.D.James,INNOCENT BLOOD

Quote from P.D.James

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.-P.D.James

Quote from Walt Streightiff

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.There are seven million.-Walt Streightiff

Famous psychologists who committed suicide

American psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg committed suicide in 1984.
Another American psychologist Michael J.Mahoney sadly committed suicide in 2006.

Quote from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Interesting blog on unsolved murders

http://kidnappingmurderandmayhem.blogspot.com

Quote on murder

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls:Love,Lust,Lucre and Loathing.-P.D.James,THE MURDER ROOM.

Quote from Alice Sebold

Heaven is comfort,but it's still not living.-Alice Sebold,THE LOVELY BONES.

Quote from Alain De Botton

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like;we envy only members of our own reference group.There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.-Alain De Boton

Quote from Djuna Barnes

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.-Djuna Barnes

Quote from Shannon L.Alder

Never keep your brain so full that people's opinions take up every pew in your mind,and truth  has to be ''born again'' before it is believed.-Shannon L.Alder

Interesting quote on Canada

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long.St.John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan,Italy than to Vancouver.-Simon Hoggart

Quote on reformers

Most reformers,like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline,go through a vast deal of vehement motion,but stay in the same place.-Austin O'Malley

Interesting quote from Lindy West

We only get one life.Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.-Lindy West

Quote on war

War is organized murder and nothing else.-Harry Patch

Quote on authors

Authors always take rejection badly.They equate it with infanticide.-P.D.James

Quote from James Patterson

Murder can be made to look like suicide,and suicide can be made to look like murder.-James Patterson,MISTRESS.

Quote from Benjamin R.Smith

Don't you read the statistics?Guns are unisex these days.-Benjamin R.Smith,ATLAS.

Quote on murder

Murder is like potato chips:you can't stop with just one.-Stephen King,UNDER THE DOME.

Quote from Scott Morrison

Just let awareness have its way with you completely.-Scott Morrison

Quote from MIchael Josephson

You are the captain of your own ship;don't let anyone else take the wheel.-Michael Josephson,www.whatwillmatter.com

Quote from Marc Maron

Surveillance induced morality:relics of cultural retardation.-Marc Maron

Quote from Michael Josephson

What you allow,you encourage.-Michael Josephson,philosopher.

Quote from Jodi Picoult

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open;becoming an adult,I've decided,is only a slow sewing shut.-Jodi Picoult,MY SISTER'S KEEPER.

Nectarines

A nectarine is a cross between a peach and a plum.

Quote from Emily Bronte

Any relic of the dead is precious,if they were valued living.-Emily Bronte,WUTHERING HEIGHTS.

Quote from Michael Josephson

Ideas without action are like beautifully gift wrapped boxes with nothing inside.-Michael Josephson,www.whatwillmatter.com

Quote from Thomas Moore

You may break,you may shatter the vase,if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang around it still.-Thomas Moore

Quote from Michael Josephson

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics,that's exactly what they'll become.-Michael Josephson

Great quote from Mort Sahl

One thing about being narrow-minded:you'll never be lonely.-Mort Sahl

Quote from Molly Ivins

He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.-Molly Ivins(1944-2007).

Quote from Fred Allen

He was so narrow-minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.-Fred Allen(1894-1956),American comedian

Quote from Will Rogers

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.-Will Rogers(1879-1935)

Great quote on kindness

Kindness has no religion.Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.-Amit Ray,NONVIOLENCE:THE TRANSFORMING POWER.

Quote from Albert Camus

It is not the job of thinking people to be on the side of the executioners.-Albert Camus(1913-1960)

Quote from Amy Tan

Whenever I'm with my mother,I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.-Amy Tan,THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE.

Quote on good editors

A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas tree---they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.-Bobbi Romans

Quote from Lance Morrow

Evil possesses an instinct for theater,which is why,in an era of gaudy and gifted media,evil may vastly magnify its damage by the power of horrific images.-Lance Morrow

Quote from Albert Camus

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the excutioners.-Albert Camus(1913-1960)

Quote from Zig Ziglar

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.-Zig Ziglar

Quote from Omar Bradley

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence,our servant may prove to be our executioner.-Omar Bradley(1893-1981)

Quote from John Ford

Revenge proves its own executioner.-John Ford

Quote from Michael Connelly

Everybody has a jury,the voices they carry inside.-Michael Connelly,THE GODS OF GUILT.

Quote on specialization

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.-Robert Pirsig

Quote from Roger Lowenstein

The modern spirit is a hesitant one.Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms,and the age of heroes has been superceded by a cult of specialization.We have no more giants;only obedient ants.-Roger Lowenstein,BUFFETT:THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CAPITALIST.

Quote from Michael Connelly

It's all a cesspool,man.Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top.You're still swimming in shit.-Michael Connelly,THE BLACK ICE.

Quote from Jesse H.Jones

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.-Jesse H.Jones

Quote from Thomas Szasz

The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness,much as the malice intrinsic to the mental hospital system has been excused by the need to provide treatment.-Thomas Szasz,CRUEL COMPASSION:PSYCHIATRIC CONTROL OF SOCIETY'S UNWANTED.

Quote from Dorothy Sayers

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery,you know.Why,if everybody came forward and told the truth,the whole truth,and nothing but the truth straight out,we should all retire to the workhouse.-Dorothy L.Sayers(1893-1957)

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.-George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

Cholesterol and testosterone

Those who go on a cholesterol-restricted diet produce less testosterone.Testosterone is by weight 95% cholesterol.

The sun

The sun is 400 times bigger than the moon.

Quote from Thomas Szasz

The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiatrists whose livelihood depends on defining them as mentally ill.-Thomas Szasz,American psychiatrist ,CRUEL COMPASSION:PSYCHIATRIC CONTROL OF SOCIETY'S UNWANTED.

Quote from Christopher Marshall

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience.-Christopher Marshall

Quote from Nathaniel Lee

They called me mad,and I called them mad,and damn them ,they outvoted me.-Nathaniel Lee

Quote from Forrest Carr

What's more insane?Hearing imaginary voices?Or not hearing the real ones?-Forrest Carr,A JOURNAL OF THE CRAZY YEAR.

Quote on clear thinking

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.-Thomas Szasz

Quote from Frank Lloyd Wright

Regard it just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.-Frank Lloyd Wright

Another quote from Megan Hart

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.-Megan Hart,DIRTY.

Quote from Megan Hart

We discover the truth in moments of disarray.-Megan Hart,TEMPTED.

Quote from Graham McNamee

Live fast,eat junk,leave a bloated corpse.-Graham McNamee

Website of libertarian and thinker

Visit http://scottlazarowitz.org

Wetlands

February 2 is World Wetlands Day every year.
                          Visit the website www.worldwetlandsday.org


             

Quote from Graham McNamee

Minimum wage,minimum effort.-Graham McNamee

Interesting quote from Bernard Loomis

The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday,not tomorrow.It's like driving a car using a rearview mirror.-Bernard Loomis

Quote on professors

The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine,but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.-William Badke

Quote from Graham McNamee

Leave fast,eat junk,leave a bloated corpse.-Graham McNamee

Quote on music

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.-Duke Ellington

Quote from Chris Mohr

Just because you take gluten out of something doesn't make it a health food.-Chris Mohr

Superb quote from Peter Griffin

What is the difference between art and pornography?
---a government grant!-Peter Griffin

Quote on pornography

Pornography is in the loin of the beholder.-Charles Rembar

Interesting quote from Novak Djokovic

My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten-I can't eat pizza,pasta and bread.I have lost some weight,but my movement is sharper and I feel great.-Novak Djokovic

Another quote from Duke Ellington

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.-Duke Ellington

Quote from Duke Ellington

I don't need time,I need a deadline.-Duke Ellington

Quote on gluten

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco.-David Perlmuter

Interesting quote on New York City

New York is a place where the rich walk,the poor drive Cadillacs,and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.-Duke Ellington

Quote from Havelock Ellis

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.-Havelock Ellis

Quote on old age

Old age is an insult.It's like being smacked.-Lawrence Durrell

Great website on ethical psychiatry

Visit the website http://breggin.com .Dr.Peter R.Breggin,MD has been called ''The Conscience of Psychiatry" for his many decades of successful efforts in the field of psychopharmacology.
                                          Please read many of the articles on this website,and refer your friends to this website.

Quote from Regina Jennings

Nothing hurts like a hostile farewell.-Regina Jennings,A MOST INCONVENIENT MARRIAGE.

Quote on alternative lifestyles

Alternative lifestyles,the emotional fly-drive packages of our times,come equipped with a set of clothes,a choice of authors,a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon of clichés.-Ellen Goodman

Quote from Jarod Kintz

I keep odd hours.I keep them stuffed under my mattress.-Jarod Kintz

Quote from Arthur Miller

The world is an oyster,but you don't crack it open on a mattress.-Arthur Miller(1915-2005),American playwright.

A Yiddish proverb

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.-Yiddish proverb

Quote from Stephen Covey

Mind over mattress.-Stephen Covey

Insightful quote from Nancy Reagan

People aren't really poor until they start using water on their cornflakes.-Nancy Reagan

Quote from Ellen Goodman

We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.-Ellen Goodman

Quote on poverty and wealth

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.-Lawrence Durrell

Quote from Nenia Campbell

One doesn't need to be taught fear when one is the hunted.-Nenia Campbell,BLEEDS MY DESIRE.

Quote from Brandy Brandon

It only takes a small oven to produce a half-baked idea.-Brandy Brandon

A Yiddish proverb

Every one is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.-Yiddish proverb

Interesting website on mental health

www.toxicpsychiatry.com

Quote from Pierre Cardin

The dress is a vase which the body follows.My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.-Pierre Cardin

Great quote on driving in London

Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.-Douglas Adams

Great quote on traffic

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.-Tom Vanderbilt,TRAFFIC:WHY WE DRIVE THE WAY WE DO.

Quote from Warren Eyster

The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.--Warren Eyster,THE GOBLINS OF EROS.

Quote from Felix Leclerc

Chaque pomme est une fleur qui a connu l'amour.-Felix Leclerc,LE CALEPIN D'UN FLANEUR(1961),page 46.

Quote from Brian Zahnd

The majority is always wrong.The crowd is untruth.Scapegoating is demonic.-Brian Zahnd

Quote from Ernest Bevin

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.-Ernest Bevin

Quote from Felix Leclerc

Trop souffrir rend aigre.Pas assez,nias.-Felix Leclerc,LE CALEPIN D'UN FLANEUR(1961),page 47.

Quote on hunting

Hunting works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth.A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal.-Peter Allison

Quote from Guy Finley

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others- so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval-is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.-Guy Finley(born 1949).

Quote from Dwight D.Eisenhower

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.-Dwight D.Eisenhower

Great quote on jealousy

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.-Megan Hart

Quote from Patricia Cornwell

But caffeine,cigarettes and cholesterol,the grim reapers of the common man-God forbid I should give them up.-Patricia Cornwell

Quote from Mary Renault

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.-Mary Renault

Quote from Dan Savage

I have a thick skin,but I have a heart.-Dan Savage

Quote from Richard Armour

Beauty is only skin deep,and the world is full of thin-skinned people.-Richard Armour

Quote from Robert Twigger

Monopathy,or over-specialization,eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections.The initial spurt of learning gives out,and the expert is left,like an animal,merely defending his territory.-Robert Twigger

Quote from Steven Wright

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.-Steven Wright

Quote from Jarod Kintz

I carry a concealed weapon-high cholesterol.It's deadly.-Jarod Kintz