Quote from Shirley Jackson

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.-Shirley Jackson,THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE.

A progressive school in Iowa

A school in Iowa allows students to receive physical education credits by helping do yard work for senior citizens and people with disabilities.

Quote from David Bowie

Religion is for people who fear hell,spirituality is for people who have been there.-David Bowie

Nipples

Your nipples are as unique as your fingerprints.

The origin of high heels

High heels were actually invented for men.Butchers used to wear them so they wouldn't step in blood.

Garlic breath

You can get rid of garlic breath by eating an apple or drinking some lemon juice.

Philophobia

Philophobia is the fear of falling in love.

Overthinking

Overthinking ruins happiness.

Rabbits

Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the feces of predators.

The problem with overthinking

Overthinking causes the mind to create negative scenarios and replay painful memories.

Spicy foods

Eating spicy foods can boost your metabolism and cause your body to burn more fat.

Justin Timberlake inspired it

The idea for You Tube came after Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson's nipple at the 2004 Super Bowl. The founders realized how hard it was to find a video online.

Cheaters and liars

Cheaters tend to think everyone cheats.Liars tend to think everyone lies.Keep this in mind.

Stricter parents

Stricter parents can inadvertently turn their kids into better liars.

Dislike

Once you begin to dislike someone,everything they do tends to annoy you.

Groaking

''Groaking'' is the act of watching people while they eat,hoping they'll offer you some food.

Quote from D.H.Lawrence

We've got to live,no matter how many skies have fallen.-D.H.Lawrence

Quote from Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Conception,my boy,fundamental brainwork,is what makes the difference in all art.-Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Quote from Red Auerbach

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.-Red Auerbach

Quote from A.C.Benson

People seldom refuse help,if one offers it in the right way.-A.C.Benson

Quote on fear

Fear and guilt are sisters.-Shirley Jackson(1919-1965)

Quote from Vincent Van Gogh

I would rather die of passion than boredom.-Vincent Van Gogh

Quote from Shirley Jackson

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are.Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.-Shirley Jackson

Quote from Shirley Jackson

In delay there lies no plenty.-Shirley Jackson(1919-1965)

Quote from Shirley Jackson

You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.-Shirley Jackson

Quote from Wallace Stevens

The world is ugly And the people are sad.-Wallace Stevens

Quote from Shirley Jackson

If you don't like my peaches,don't shake my tree.-Novelist Shirley Jackson,replying to a disappointed reader on July 25,1953.

Quote from Shirley Jackson

I delight in what I fear.-Shirley Jackson(1919-1965)

Quote from Emily Dickinson

Beauty crowds me till I die.-Emily Dickinson

Quote from Shirley Jackson

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books.I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.-Shirley Jackson(1919-1965)

Gorillas

Gorillas live in a semi-permanent state of flatulence. Due to the vast vegetarian diet and intestinal microflora,they are almost always farting.

Scobberlotcher

Scobberlotcher-An idle person.

Ninnyhammer

Ninnyhammer-A fool,a simpleton,ninny.

Throttlebottom

Throttlebottom-An innocuously inept and futile person in public office.

Muckspout

Muckspout-someone who uses a lot of cursing.

1939

Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.How ironic!

Peanut oil

Peanut oil is used in cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450F.

Kites

Kites were used in the American Civil war to deliver letters and newspapers.

Quote from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Never take advice from anyone in a tie.They'll bankrupt you.Don't ask a general for advice on war,and don't ask a broker for advice on money.-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Quote from Cathy Ladman

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years.It lasted forty-three years.-Cathy Ladman

Quote from Renata Adler

The shortest distance between two points may well be the wrong way on a one way street.-Renata Adler

Quote from Virginia Woolf

I am betrayed so often by calm,deceptive skies.-Virginia Woolf

Quote from Carl Jung

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.-Carl Jung

Quote from Adam Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.-Adam Smith

Quote from Stanley Kunitz

End with an image and don't explain.-Stanley Kunitz

Quote from Adam Richman

A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear.-Adam Richman

Quote from Shirley Jackson

 So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.-Shirley Jackson(1919-1965)

Quote on fear

 Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns.We yield to it or we fight it,but we cannot meet it halfway.-Shirley Jackson(1919-1965)

Quote on history

 History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.-John Piper

Quote from Mary Pettibone Poole

 People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.-Mary Pettibone Poole

Tossing an apple

 In ancient Greece,tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage.Catching it meant she accepted.

The ocean

 Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.

When a person dies

 When a person dies hearing is the last sense to go.The first sense lost is sight.

Funny thing from the 1936 Olympics

 During the 1936 Olympics in Berlin,25,000 pigeons were released during the opening ceremony.When a cannon was fired,the pigeons begun to poop on the spectators watching the ceremony below.

Quote from Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age.As long as you're learning you're not old.-Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Quote from Carl Icahn

In life and business,there are two cardinal sins.The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.-Carl Icahn

Quote from Joan Fontaine

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate,blue-jean world.And I,for one,think it's a shame.-Joan Fontaine,actress

Quote from Johnny Carson

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career.Not education.Not being born with hidden talents.-Johnny Carson

Players of beach volleyball

For players of beach volleyball dealing with burning hot sand on barren feet is a constant reality.

Quote from Ruby Dee

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within----- strength,courage,dignity.-Ruby Dee

Quote from Michael Ondaatje

Death means you are in the third person.-Michael Ondaatje,THE ENGLISH PATIENT.

Quote from Bronwen Dickey

The dramatic increase of the speed of information and the precipitous decline in critical thinking have been disastrous.-Bronwen Dickey

Quote from Rufus Wainwright

You get to a certain age,and you feel the need to reward yourself for just existing.-Rufus Wainwright,musician and singer.

Quote from James Baldwin

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim:he or she has become a threat.-James Baldwin

Limitations of artificial intelligence

A lot of Facebook monitoring is done by artificial intelligence,and artificial intelligence does not understand context.

Quote on arguments

 Arguments are like eels:however logical,they may slip from the mind's weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.-Alain De Botton

Quote on neurotics

 Neurotics are sure that no one understands them,and they wouldn't have it any other way.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Sigmund Freud

 Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.-Sigmund Freud

Quote on neurotics

 The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone -until they do.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote on second chances

 Sometimes giving someone a second chance is like giving them an extra bullet for their gun because they missed you the first time.-Lawrence White,PRAISE IS WHAT WE DO,FACEBOOK,July 13,2021.

Quote on neurotics

 The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye,but he cannot remember which.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

 The neurotic lies awake at night,composing letters to those he hates.He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote on neurotics

 Neurotics think of the past with resentment,and the future with dread;the present just doesn't exist.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

 The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule:Hate thy neighbor as thyself.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Thomas Szasz

 Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis.The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things;the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them.In short,the neurotic has problems,the psychotic has solutions.-Thomas Szasz

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

 Others settle for small rewards;the neurotic must always go for broke.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Jonathan Kozol

 A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.-Jonathan Kozol

Quote from Marcel Proust

 Everything great in the world comes from neurotics.They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.-Marcel Proust

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

 Naturally the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much,for he is going to cut it in half anyway.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote on neurotics

 The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from William Glasser

 To be depressed or neurotic is passive.It happened to us;we are its victim,and we have no control over it.-William Glasser

Quote on writers

 Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.-Connie Willis

Quote from Stephen Sondheim

 I prefer neurotic people.I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.-Stephen Sondheim

Quote from Kirstie Alley

 I don't like psychiatry.I don't believe it works.I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic,for the most part.-Kirstie Alley

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

 Neurotics are anxiety prone,accident prone,and often just prone.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote on second-class citizens

 Of all second-class citizens,neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote on the neurotic

 The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies;it is only his friends he is careless about.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

 Neurotic:Someone who can go from the bottom to the top,and back again,without ever once touching the middle.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Norman C.Brown

 All currency is neurotic currency.-Norman O.Brown

Quote on neurotics

 Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends,but not for long.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Tucker Carlson

 No country can survive being ruled by people who hate it.-Tucker Carlson

Quote from Soren Kierkegaard

 People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.-Soren Kierkegaard

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

 Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote on neurotics

 Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Carolyn Wells

 Actions lie louder than words.-Carolyn Wells

Cooking fuel

 Traditionally the main source of cooking fuel in India was dried cow dung.Dried cow dung burns with a slow flame and is ideal for long,slow cooking.

Quote on neurotics

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

 Neurotics dream of a good life, or a good suicide note.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote on neurotics

 Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel ,and missing them.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from Roxanne Gay

 Unruly women are always witches.No matter what century we're in.-Roxanne Gay

A Diana Ross song from 1973 that I like

 Last Time I Saw Him(1973)- song by Diana Ross.                                                        This song contains the line'Last time I saw him He was greyhound-bound.'

Hitchhiking plants

 Plants often hitchhike on clothes.We spread invasive species inadvertently sometimes.

Compersion

 Compersion-Finding pleasure and pride in other people's accomplishments.

Moths

 Only male moths fly;female moths have wings but don't fly.

Ballast water

 A ship takes water on board and dumps it out after unloading cargo to control stability.                                                   This ballast water has been linked to a sharp increase in invasive species.

Why wetlands must be preserved

 Wetlands are resilient to wildfires and they slow wildfires.                                          However human beings have drained many wetlands for agriculture and residential development.Wetlands are also seen as inconvenient because they breed bugs and mosquitoes.

Insect waste

 Frass- Technical term for insect poop.

Quote from Norm Crosby

 If your eyes hurt after you drink coffee, you have to take the spoon out of the cup.-Norm Crosby

Quote from Audrey Giorgi

 Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.-Audrey Giorgi

Sleep

 Sleep is restorative;during sleep the brain clears out some of the debris it doesn't need.

Manatees

 Manatees are herbivores and they primarily eat sea grass.

Necropsy

 Necropsy- animal version of an autopsy.

Unique palm that moves

 The " Socratia Exorhiza" palm is unique because it moves from one place to another until it reaches more sunny places.And the way of its movement is that new roots grow in the foreground and the old ones die and are displaced from their place.The distance covered in a year may be 20 metres.It is found in Nicaragua,Costa Rica and Panama.

Quote from Edith Sitwell

 I am not eccentric.It's just that I am more alive than most people.I am an unpopular eel set in a pond of catfish.-Edith Sitwell

Quote on trust

 Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.-Robert Jordan

Quote from love

 Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell.-Bertrand Russell

Quote from Betty White

 I have the backbone of an eel.-Betty White,actress.

Quote from Stella Young

 My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair but because the broader environment isn't accessible.-Stella Young

Quote from SARK

 Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!-SARK

Quote from Carson McCullers

As often as not,we are homesick most often for the places we have never known.-Carson McCullers

Quote from David Frost

Love is staying up all night with a sick child-or a healthy adult.-David Frost

Quote from George Washington Carver

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.-George Washington Carver

Quote from Sylvia Ashton Warner

Truth has beauty,power and necessity.-Sylvia Ashton Warner

Quote from James J.Hill

The wealth of the country,its capital,its credit,must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich,but above all from the predatory politician.-James J.Hill

Quote from Barbara Ehrenreich

Shame at our own dependence on the underpaid labor of others.When someone works for less pay than she can live on-when she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently-then she has made a great sacrifice for you.The working poor are the major philanthropists of our society.-Barbara Ehrenreich,NICKEL AND DIMED

Arugula salad that you made

On Wednesday,July 14,2021,you made and ate a delicious salad with baby arugula leaves,two boiled eggs,tomatoes,salt,apple cider vinegar and canola oil.Arugula adds such tang to salads.

Quote from Alan W.Watts

Paradoxical as it may seem,the purposeful life has no content,no point.It hurries on and on,and misses everything.Not hurrying,the purposeful life misses nothing,for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.-Alan W.Watts

Ogopogo

Ogopogo-In Canadian folklore,the Ogopogo is a lake monster said to inhabit Okanagan Lake in British Columbia,Canada.

Quote from Karen Salmansohn

Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem,which increases happiness.Plus,giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.-Karen Salmansohn

Quote from Henry Miller

To be silent the whole day long,see no newspaper,hear no radio,listen to no gossip,be thoroughly and completely lazy,thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.-Henry Miller

Quote from Raymond E.Feist

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.-Raymond E.Feist

Quote from Eric Gibson

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.-Eric Gibson

Quote on altruism

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.-Mason Cooley

Tiger parent

 Tiger parent- Term for an authoritarian parent.Also called a shark parent.

Jellyfish parenting

 Jellyfish parenting-A term for permissive parenting.

Quote from Kurt Vonnegut

 Money is dehydrated mercy.If you have plenty of it,you just add tears,and people come out of the woodwork to comfort you.-Kurt Vonnegut

Quote from Arthur Alfred Lynch

 Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition,and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.-Arthur Alfred Lynch

Quote from Ralph Marston

 Welcome those big,sticky,complicated problems.In them are your most powerful opportunities.-Ralph Marston

Quote from Eric Ambler

 But when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation,reality is apt to be disappointing.-Eric Ambler

Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes

 Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door by which they may be entered.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote from Charles Caleb Colton

 The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous,and mutually beget each other.-Charles Caleb Colton

Quote on money

 Money is dehydrated utopia.-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Quote from Hilary Mantel

 Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.-Hilary Mantel

Quote from Voltaire

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.-Voltaire

Quote from Alphonse de Lamartine

Assassination makes only martyrs,not converts.-Alphonse de Lamartine

Insightful quote from Eric Ambler

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot,but who paid for the bullet.-Eric Ambler

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote from Mike Ditka

If God had wanted man to play soccer,he wouldn't have given us arms.-Mike Ditka

Quote from R.D.Laing

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.-R.D.Laing

Quote from Robertson Davies

Never harbor grudges;they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.-Robertson Davies

Quote from Cassandra Clare

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.-Cassandra Clare

Quote from Randy K.Milholland

In the end,we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.-Randy K.Milholland

Quote from Stephen King

Susannah's memory had become distressingly spotty,unreliable,like the half-stripped transmission of an old car.-Stephen King

Another quote from Ann Rule

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.-Ann Rule(1935-2015),American writer.

Quote from Ann Rule

I always want to give the victim a voice.-Ann Rule,American writer.

Quote from Anatole France

The majestic equality of laws,which prohibit both rich and poor sleeping under bridges,begging in the streets and stealing bread.-Anatole France

Quote from Ann Hood

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.-Ann Hood

Quote on love

Love is not finding someone to live with.It's finding someone you can't live without.-Rafael Ortiz

Quote on Easter

Easter is the only time of year when it's perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.-Evan Esar

Quote from Jennifer Weiner

There's all kinds of love in the world,and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.-Jennifer Weiner,BEST FRIENDS FOREVER(2010),page 130.

Quote from Ann Rule

Try to open up your mind a little,and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be-unless you have been there.-Ann Rule(1935-2015)

Marijuana

Marijuana is fat-soluble and is stored in the fat cells of the body.It is not released daily in the urine like Vitamin C.

Quote on happiness

I don't trust happiness.I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk,looking for chipped rims or loose threads.-Jennifer Weiner,GOOD IN BED(2002),PAGE 398.

Quote from Joss Whedon

Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.-Joss Whedon

Quote from Marc Jacobs

Change is a great and horrible thing,and people love it or hate it at the same time.Without change,however,you just don't move.-Marc Jacobs

Quote from Jenny Holzer

Some days you wake up and immediately start to worry.Nothing in particular is wrong.It's just the suspicion that forces are aligning quietly and there will be trouble.-Jenny Holzer

Quote on mess

Be a mess.It's fine.The universe is a mess.Galaxies are drifting all over the place.To be tidy is to be out of tune with the cosmos.-Matt Haig,NOTES FROM A NERVOUS PLANET,quoted by Robert Kaplan on his Facebook page,June 27,2021.

Quote from Andrew Abbott

Education doesn't have aims.It is the aim of other things.-Andrew Abbott

Quote from Lucille Clifton

What they call you is one thing.What you answer to is something else.-Lucille Clifton

Bald eagles

Bald eagles are pretty romantic animals and usually mate for life.They also share parenting duties,and they both feed their young.

The Secret Service

Abraham Lincoln created the secret service just hours before he was assassinated.

Quote from Rudy Francisco

Sometimes,I'm the mess.Sometimes,I'm the broom.On the hardest days,I have to be both.-Rudy Francisco

Quote from Richard Ford

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.-Richard Ford

Quote from Tim Russert

The older I get,the smarter my father seems to get.-Tim Russert

Quote from Walter Savage Landor

When we play the fool,how wide the Theatre expands!-Walter Savage Landor

Quote from Edward Snowden

People don't realize how hard it is to speak the truth, to a world full of people that don't realize they're living a lie.-Edward Snowden

Quote on logical consequences

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.-Thomas Henry Huxley

Quote from Octavia E.Butler

You got to make your own worlds,you got to write yourself in.-Octavia E.Butler

Arrogance and ego

 There is a big difference between arrogance and ego.Arrogance is a sense of entitlement;ego is a sense of belief in yourself.

Ants

 There are 15,000 species of ants.Ants are very social.                                             The queen in an ant colony can live for up to 30 years but worker ants usually live for only three months.The queen is much larger than the worker ants and is usually quite recognisable; her abdomen is much larger.The queen is heavily fortified and protected in an ant nest.                                                  Ants communicate with each other through chemical signals.Ants bury their dead like humans;there are ant cemeteries.

Retrophile

 Retrophile-A person who loves artifacts and aesthetics from the past.

Stigmatophile

 Stigmatophile-a person who is obsessed with tattoos,piercings.

Quote on the weather

 The National Weather Service has just published instructions on how to bake a lasagna in your mail box.-Jeff Cowan,FACEBOOK,June 25,2021.

Logophile

 Logophile-A person who is a lover of words.

Discophile

 Discophile-A person who loves vinyl;a record collector.

Quote from Noam Chomsky

 The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter,which just weeds out people who are too independent,and who think for themselves,and who don't know how to be submissive,and so on-because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.-Noam Chomsky

Quote from Gordon Lish

 Listen hardest.-Gordon Lish

Quote from Voltaire

 The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.-Voltaire

Chionophile

 Chionophile-a person who finds comfort in cold weathers.

Limnophile

 Limnophile-a person who loves lakes.

Quote from Nassib Nicholas Taleb

 What fools call 'wasting time' is most often the best investment.-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Quote on humor

 Humour is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.-Irvin S.Cobb

Autophile

 Autophile-A person who loves solitude,being alone.

Astrophile

 Astrophile-A person who loves stars;astronomy.

Quote from Jeffrey Eugenides

 In the end,it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.-Jeffrey Eugenides,THE VIRGIN SUICIDES.

Quote from Aldous Huxley

 If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasure of illusion.-Aldous Huxley