Quote of the Day

[Lupe]

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. ~William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

[Lupe]

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. ~Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless

[Lupe]

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
~ Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)

[Lupe]

and for all the yesterdays that have gone by here are a few I got to put in:

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

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!' ~ John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. ~ Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation. ~ Barbara Hall

Regimen is superior to medicine. ~ Voltaire (1694 - 177

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. ~ Walter Pater (1839 - 1894)

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Ability is nothing without opportunity. ~ Napoleon I

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. ~ William Proxmire

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ~ C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. ~ Viktor Frankl,

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex. ~ Earl Wilson

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. ~ William F. Claire

Age is no guarantee of maturity. ~ Lawana Blackwell

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. ~ Chinese Proverb

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. ~ William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry V", Act 5 scene 1

Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon. ~ Cosino DeGregrio

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ~ William James (1842 - 1910)

THIS is why democracy doesn't work! Too much talking leads to not enough violence! ~ Maritza Campos, College Roomies From Hell!!! Webcomic

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. ~ Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. ~ Eric Sevareid

[Lupe]

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. ~ John A. Wheeler

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. ~ Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie. ~ Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon (Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 200

[Lupe]

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. ~ Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. ~ Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. ~ David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.' ~ Jack Handey (1949 - )

[Lupe]

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. ~ Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. ~ Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. ~ George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. ~ Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

[Lupe]

....it is better to succeed with success than failure. ~ George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. ~ Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them. ~ Patty Labelle

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 194

[Lupe]

People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black. ~ Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. ~ Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. ~ Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

[Lupe]

You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future; not a future that will be, but one that might be. This is not a new world: It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace. This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State, but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths in the Twilight Zone. ~ The Twilight Zone, The Obsolete Man