Thursday, February 16. 2006
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw
Wednesday, February 15. 2006
Poetry lies its way to the truth. John Ciardi
Monday, February 13. 2006
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
Tuesday, February 7. 2006
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietsche
Monday, February 6. 2006
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. Dr. Karl Menninger
Friday, February 3. 2006
Failing to plan is planning to fail. Anon.
Thursday, February 2. 2006
I am not a Marxist. Karl Marx
Wednesday, February 1. 2006
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime. John P. Grier
Tuesday, January 31. 2006
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. Bob Dylan
Monday, January 30. 2006
I reject your reality, and substitute my own. Adam Savage (Host of Mythbusters & Visual Effects Creator)
Friday, January 27. 2006
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. John Ciardi
Thursday, January 26. 2006
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. William Shakespeare
Wednesday, January 25. 2006
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. Bob Dylan
Tuesday, January 24. 2006
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We do not allow our enemies to have guns, so why should we allow them to have ideas? Joseph Stalin (quoted in response to Michelle's Amazon book piece yesterday)
Monday, January 23. 2006
Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex. Frank Zappa
Wednesday, January 18. 2006
A liberal is someone who is so open-minded that he can't take his own side in an argument. Robert Frost (H/T, Neo-neocon)
Tuesday, January 17. 2006
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln
Friday, January 13. 2006
He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. G.K. Chesterton
Thursday, January 12. 2006
Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. Winston Churchill
Wednesday, January 11. 2006
Reward excellent failure - punish mediocre success.Tom Peters
Monday, January 9. 2006
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
Friday, January 6. 2006
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.C. P. Snow
Thursday, January 5. 2006
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain
Wednesday, January 4. 2006
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Tuesday, January 3. 2006
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
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