Quote from John Waters

Collect books,even if you don't plan on reading them right away.Nothing is more important than an unread library.-John Waters

20 year-old Montreal male,a healthy fitness buff shockingly dies of heart attack

20 year-old Ste.Anne-de-Bellevue resident Zacharie Richard died suddenly and shockingly in his sleep from a heart attack on June 5,2021. Ste.Anne de Bellevue is a suburb of Montréal.

                                           Annette Vézina and Bruno Richard's son was a fit steel worker who enjoyed hiking and cycling.Richard began training in a gym at 14.He had his own gym in the family garage.

                                            Fitness enthusiast Zacharie Richard took up long-distance cycling and traveled a 10-day,1200-Kilometres from Montana to Wyoming.

                                               -Silvia CadeMartori,MONTREAL GAZETTE,August 5,2021

Quote on desperation

Desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room,it will find alternative answers.-Harlan Coben

Quote from Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.-Francis Jeffrey,Lord Jeffrey

Quote from Barry Diller

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.-Barry Diller(born 1942)

Quote from Antoine De Saint.Exupery

Let your dream devour your life,not your life devour your dream.-Antoine De Saint Exupery

Another quote from Barry Diller

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.-Barry Diller(born 1942)

Quote from Barry Diller

If you have too many epiphanies,you're on some kind of drug.-Barry Diller

Quote from Dave Liniger

You can't succeed coming to the potluck with only a fork.-Dave Liniger

Quote from Earl Derr Biggers

This is unexpected-like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.-Earl Derr Biggers

Quote on grapefruit

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.-Oscar Wilde

Quote from Emily Dickinson

I wish you a kinder sea.-Emily Dickinson

Quote on Islamism

Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.-Maajid Nawaz

Quote on commerce

All forms of commerce are adversarial.-Barry Diller

Quote from Og Mandino

Treasure the love you have received above all.It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.-Og Mandino

Quote on Hollywood

Hollywood's a great place to live---if you're a grapefruit.-Rod Serling

Quote on feeding teenagers

Feeding teenage boys was like filling a bathtub with a grapefruit spoon.-Harlan Coben

Quote from Alice Munro

I like gaps;all my stories have gaps.It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.-Alice Munro

Quote about chef Julia Child

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.-Phil Donahue

Great quote on the American lawn

The American lawn is one of the greatest mass brainwashings of all time.How we all voluntarily signed up to spend untold hours growing and cutting a nonnative monoculture of green which we lace with poisons to kill plants and insects never ceases to amaze.-Bill Heavey

Quote from Alice Munro

The constant happiness is curiosity.-Alice Munro

Quote from Kay Ryan

Failure:the renewable resource.-Kay Ryan

Quote from Carl Jung

Where love rules,there is no will to power;and where power predominates,there love is lacking.The one is the shadow of the other.-Carl Jung

Quote from Robert Bly

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.-Robert Bly

Quote from Charles Caleb Colton

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.-Charles Caleb Colton

The remarkable Olivia Farnsworth

A British girl named Olivia Farnsworth(born 2009) is the only known case of Chromosome 6 deletion.She does not feel hunger,pain or the need to sleep.In 2016,she was hit by a car,felt no pain and had minor injuries.Her doctors have nicknamed her ''Bionic Girl.''

Jews in Budapest

During World War II,Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the River Danube and ordered to remove their shoes.They were tied in pairs and one was shot falling into the water below and taking the other down with them,to drown.60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river's bank,a memorial to the victims.

Quote from Alan Hirsch

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera:the king is dramatic,demanding and unavoidable.-Alan Hirsch

Quote on learning languages

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things,but learning another way to think about things.-Flora Lewis

Quote on fear

Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things underground,and much more in the skies.-Miguel de Cervantes

Quote from Gary Gilmore

Death is the only inescapable,unavoidable sure thing.We are sentenced to die the day we're born.-Gary Gilmore

Quote from R.D.Laing

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.-R.D.Laing

Quote from Michael R.Poll

Change is one of the unavoidable facts of all existence.Any attempt to avoid change only results in an unnatural waste of energy.-Michael R.Poll

Quote from Joseph Addison

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward;and merit without modesty,insolent.But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance,and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.-Joseph Addison

Quote from Henrik Ibsen

Castles in the air-they're so easy to take refuge in.So easy to build too.-Henrik Ibsen

Quote from Mike Hawkins

Change is unavoidable.You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.-Mike Hawkins

Quote from Tess Gallagher

That's what poems are for,unlivable love.-Tess Gallagher

Quote on democracy

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.-Robert Byrne

Quote from Aldous Huxley

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life.It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation,I have to say that the best answer is -just be a little kinder.-Aldous Huxley(1894-1963)

Quote from Mignon McLaughlin

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them,and important to friendship that we are not.-Mignon McLaughlin

Quote from James Allen

Above all be of single aim;have a legitimate and useful purpose,and devote yourself unreservedly to it.-James Allen

A Sicilian proverb

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.-Sicilian proverb

Quote from Jack Kornfield

You don't need to postpone being happy.-Jack Kornfield

Very insightful quote on the art world

I think the art world---is a very small pond,and it's a very inbred pond.They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries,primarily in New York.-Thomas Kincaide

Quote on Hollywood

Hollywood is a community that's so inbred,it's a wonder the children have any teeth.-Barry Diller

Another quote from Samuel Johnson

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort,cowardice for courage,and bashfulness for confidence.-Samuel Johnson

Quote from Samuel Johnson

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.-Samuel Johnson

Quote from Steven Galloway

----Life is a series of tiny,unavoidable decisions.-Steven Galloway

Quote from Alan Saporta

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.-Alan Saporta

Quote from Martha Horner

What is important is to keep learning,to enjoy challenge,and to tolerate ambiguity.In the end there are no certain answers.You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking.It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.-Martha Horner

Quote by Colin Powell

Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites.Experts often possess more data than judgment.Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.-Colin Powell

Quote on eccentricity

Eccentricity,to be socially acceptable,had still to have at least four of five generations of inbreeding behind it.-Osbert Lancaster

Quote from Alan Greenspan

The need for values is inbred.Their content is not.-Alan Greenspan

Quote from Bart D.Ehrman

There are few things more dangerous than religious certainty.-Bart D.Ehrman

Quote from David Mitchell

Such inbred,bovine torpor!-David Mitchell

Quote from Jeffrey Fry

Skills can be trained,character is inbred.-Jeffrey Fry

Writer commits suicide after suffering from long-haul COVID-19

'Dawason's Creek' writer Heidi Ferrer died at the age of 50 in May 2021 following a 13-month battle with long COVID-19.

                           She died by suicide after an ongoing struggle with long-haul COVID-19.Very sad.

Pop singer dies of COVID-19

Tommy DeVito,founding member of the 60s group The Four Seasons very sadly died from COVID-19 in December 2021 at the age of 92.

Simpsons writer Marc Wilmore died of COVID-19

The Simpsons writer Marc Wilmore very sadly died at age 57 in January 2021 after contracting COVID-19.

Metropolitan opera singer dies of COVID-19 at only 38

Metropolitan opera singer Antoine Hodge sadly died after an extended struggle with the corona virus, in January 2021.He died of COVID-19 complications at only 38.He was a native of Georgia.

George Holliday,the ,an who filmed the Rodney King beating sadly dies of COVID-19

George Holliday,the Los Angeles plumber who shot grainy video of four white police officers beating black motorist Rodney King in 1991,sadly died of complications of COVID-19 in September 2021 at only 61.He died on September 19,2021 at a Los Angeles hospital,where he had been for more than a month.Holliday was not vaccinated and was on a ventilator after contracting pneumonia.

                                             Rodney King drowned in his backyard swimming pool on June 17,2012 at age 47.

             

                                     

Quote on Washington

Washington D.C. is happiest when in indignation overdrive.-George F.Will

Quote from S.J.Scott

Exhaustion from overstimulation is a huge problem for many introverts.-S.J.Scott

Quote from Sherry Turkle

Overstimulated,we seek out constrained worlds.-Sherry Turkle

Quote on poetry

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied.-Gail Carriger

Quote from Jean Anouilh

Nothing is irreparable in politics.-Jean Anouilh

Quote from Mason Cooley

My strengths make me contemptuous.My weaknesses make me charitable.-Mason Cooley

Great message I saw on a young guy's T-shirt in the Montreal metro on September 22,2021

Go Green or Dye Trying.-Message I saw on a T-shirt on the Montreal metro on September 22,2021

Quote from Barry Lyga

Anger and hatred,when left unfed,bleed away like air from a punctured tire,over time and days and years.Forgiveness is stealth.-Barry Lyga

Quote from David Foster Wallace

Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?-David Foster Wallace

Quote on writers

Writers have no real area of expertise.They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.-Lorrie Moore

Quote on despair

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.-George Eliot

Quote from Gore Vidal

The unfed mind devours itself.-Gore Vidal

Quote on patriotism

Patriotism is not enough.I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.-Edith Cavell

Freedumb

Freedumb-The belief that your personal freedom outweighs others' personal safety.

Bashful bladder

7% of men suffer from parusesis,an anxiety disorder that means you can't pee if other people are in close proximity.

Raccoons and skunks

Raccoons and skunks will literally sniff out a yellow jacket nest at night and dig it up to eat the yellow jackets.

Demoviction

Demoviction:To be evicted from one's rental housing unit because the landlord plans to demolish the building.

A couple of other conservative talk show hosts who have died of COVID-19 in 2021

Conservative American radio hosts Dick Farrel and Marc Bernier,65,both unvaccinated critics of inoculation efforts-sadly died in 2021 after contracting COVID-19.

Quote from Bono

I often wonder if religion is the enemy of God.It's almost like religion is what happens when God has left the building.-Bono

Quote from Patricia Moyes

It is often interesting,in retrospect,to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events.A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark-and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion,leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.-Patricia Moyes

Quote on suicide

Suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon,ou know.It can be the ultimate revenge,leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.-Patricia Moyes

Quote from Erica Jong

Denounce useless guilt.Don't make a cult of suffering.Live in the now(or at least the soon).Always do the thing you fear most.Courage is an acquired taste like caviar.Trust all joy.If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze,look elsewhere.Get ready to be 87.-Erica Jong

Quote from Luther Burbank

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.-Luther Burbank

Quote on affection

Affection reproaches,but does not denounce.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Joseph Conrad

Every age is fed on illusions,lest men should denounce life early and the human race come to an end.-Joseph Conrad

Quote from H.L.Mencken

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.-H.L.Mencken

Goat trees?

Goats climb to eat the Argan ,''The Tree of  Life''  fruit in a village in southwest Morocco.It creates the illusion that goats are spread out on trees.When goats eat the fruit and then spit out the hard seeds,farmers pick up the seeds.The seeds of the Argan tree fruit can be used to obtain oïl for cooking or making cosmetics.

                                       Argan trees growing in the Moroccan water Valley area  are about 8,20,000 hectares,which is only about half the number of argan trees that existed half a century ago.Currently,UNESCO in 2021 has set the last remaining argan tree forest on Earth as a biosphere reserve since 1999,and it is said that the Berber tribes pick about  4,000 tons of fruit  by hand each  year excluding the Moroccan goats and animals eating it.And as the efficacy of argan oïl became known,it is now one of the most expensive oils  on Earth.

Nonmonogamous parrot

Most parrots are monogamous;the Kakapo is a bulky parrot and it is nonmonogamous.

Greenhouse gas emissions from cattle

In 2021 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions from human activity come from cattle.Ammonia from the urine of cattle turns into nitrous oxide once it hits the soil.

Another conservative talk show host dies from COVID-19

American conservative talk show host pastor RObert ''Bob'' Enyart,who swore off COVID-19 vaccines,sadly died from complications due to the COVID-19 virus in September 2021.He was only 62.

Quote from William Safire

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob,and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.-William Safire

Quote from Giorgio Armani

Elegance does not mean standing out,but entering the memory.-Giorgio Armani

Quote from E.W.Howe

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually.Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.-E.W.Howe

Another quote from Patricia Moyes

One doesn't really grow older;it's just that other people grow younger.-Patricia Moyes

Quote from Patricia Moyes

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.-Patricia Moyes

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote from H.N.Swanson

Whenever I'm asked what kind of writing is the most lucrative,I have to say ransom notes.-H.N.Swanson

Quote from C.S.Harris

In my experience,those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied.For them,war is opportunity,not hardship or sorrow.After all,it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.-C.S.Harris

Quote from David Lynch

What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd.-David Lynch

Quote from Conan O'Brien

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get.But if you work really hard and you're kind,amazing things will happen.-Conan O'Brien

America's deadliest fruit

Beware of America's deadliest fruit tree.Found in Florida,the manchineel tree is so deadly that eating or touching the fruit,or even inhaling the nearby air could have severe consequences.All parts of the tree,especially the fruiit,are extremely poisonous.

The amazing bald eagle

Did you know when a bald eagle loses a feather on one wing,it'll also lose a feather on the other to keep its balance.In indigenous cultures,eagle feathers are a deeply revered symbol of honor and strength.

Quote from Jennifer Egan

I followed my own curiosity until it made a book.-Jennifer Egan

Quote from George Orwell

The past was erased,the erasure was forgotten,the lie became the truth.-George Orwell(1903-1950)

Quote from Alan Watts

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.-Alan Watts

Quote from Deepak Chopra

All religions develop,become exclusive,become divisive and quarrelsome.-Deepak Chopra

Quote from Benjamin Franklin

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.-Benjamin Franklin

Quote on editing

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers-same thing exactly.-Harold Ross

Quote from Nancy Astor

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.-Nancy Astor

Quote from Harold Ross

If you can't be funny,be interesting.-Harold Ross,journalist.

Quote on the literary scene

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa's raft,small and sinking,and one's instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.-John Updike

Quote from Bette Davis

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work.No set goal achieved satisfies.Success only breeds a new goal.The golden apple devoured has seeds.It is endless.-Bette Davis,THE LONELY LIFE.

Quote on applied science

Applied science is a conjuror ,whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.-Aldous Huxley

Quote from Mason Cooley

When Medusa looks in the mirror,she sees the Lady of Sorrows.-Mason Cooley

Aloe plants

An aloe vera plant can raise the oxygen levels in your home.It can absorb carbon monoxide,carbon dioxide,and formaldehyde.Just one aloe plant can achieve what 9 biological air purifiers can do.

Princess Juliana

In 1940,Princess Juliana of the Netherlands was evacuated to Ottawa,Canada when Germany invaded.When her daughter was born,Canada declared her hospital rooms as outside Ottawa law so the baby would have Dutch nationality.As thanks,Princess Juliana has given Ottawa 10,000 tulip bulbs every year.

Martha Cannon Hughes

Martha Cannon Hughes worked as a doctor,fought for women's rights and helped put women enfranchisement into Utah's constitution.She was a Mormon polygamous wife,and ran against and defeated her own husband in 1896 to become the first female State senator ever elected in the United States.

Giant Tarantulas have a strange habit

Did you know?Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets.Ants will eat the burrowing tarantulas' eggs-so the spiders protect the frogs from predators and in return-the frogs eat the ants.Both the frogs and the tarantulas seem to benefit from the association of their partner.-www.thesized.com

Cleveland airport

At Cleveland Airport,you can practice CPR while waiting for your flight.

Ann Hodges

Ann Hodges-The only human being in recorded history to be hit by a meteorite.

Quote from Amedeo Modigliani

It is your duty in life to save your dream.-Amedeo Modigliani

Quote from Dag Hammarskjold

The longest journey is the journey inward.-Dag Hammarskjold

Quote from Virginia Woolf

Blame it or praise it,there is no denying the wild horse in us.-Virginia Woolf

Quote from Dave Kimbrell

Lesson I learned from my tongue:Never mix chocolate and gum.-Dave Kimbrell,(artist with the website www.davekimbrell.com),FACEBOOK,September 1,2021.

Quote from Ken Kesey

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.-Ken Kesey

Quote from Fritz Perl

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations,nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.-Fritz Perls

Quote from Sonam Wangchuk

Don't blame the child for forgetting lessons;make the lessons unforgettable.-Sonam Wangchuk

Nigella Lawson

British culinary star Nigella Lawson calls canned,salted or cured anchovies ''the bacon of the sea.''

Film business in Nova Scotia

Halifornia-The name given to the booming film business in Nova Scotia.

Quote from Ernest Rutherford

That which is not measurable is not science.-Ernest Rutherford

Quote from MarKus Zusak

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning of a lasting friendship.-Markus Zusak