Hi you two! Wallpaper the dread of Western Civilization. Here's another....
"Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now."
Thomas Eisner (1929- )
"What can we say to a man who tells you that he would rather obey God than men, and that therefore he is sure to go to heaven for butchering you? Even the law is impotent against these attacks of rage; it is like reading a court decree to a raving maniac. These fellows are certain that the holy spirit with which they are filled is above the law, that their enthusiasm is the only law that they must obey." - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet, 1694-1778)
Thursday's...
"Â…there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys." - Marvin Gaye (1939-1984)
Friday's...
"Disc-jockeys are electronic lice."
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
Mary Poppins was a junkie. anon
Heehee, I think that's Mary Poppins IS a Junkie, Dyslexia, and came from Mike Nichols.
Here's today's... also from Hollywood:
"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."
Lily Tomlin (1939- )
(She's one of my favorite performers.)
My dad used to say repeatedly:
There's only two ways to do anything.
First, there's the right way.
Or second, you can do it over and over and over and over again
till you do it the first way.
Ben Eldred Jeffries 1914-1998
(make sure you use appropriate hand motions when saying the above.)
Joe, he sounds like a wise man, your dad. (But not Jewish, huh?)
Anyway, I will forward that to Mr.P. I think he'll like it because it's very similar to a quote by his uncle Dwight (great minds...):
"Everytime I deviate from standard practice in carpentry, I later find out why it was standard practice."
Dwight Henderson
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once." - Jennifer Unlimited
I can relate to that, Piffka.
Haha, Ms.Olga. Isn't that a good one! It does feel like they're ganging up on you sometimes.
Here's yesterday's quote. It's a good one... I'm glad I caught it!
"If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, ?'America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership'."
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Here's today's (it's a little ho-hum for my taste):
"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos." - Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
from a headstone in the GeorgeTown Colorado cemetery "what are you looking at?"
I love the bounce of quotes. Thank you, Dys, and always, Piffka.
Hi Ossobuco. Thanks for your kind words.
Here's todays (I like this one a lot!):
"Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922- )
<sigh> Ah, Kurt, the man of my dreams .... Always the voice of sanity. My vote for World President, by a mile!
MsOlga! Kurt Vonnegut? LOL
I see I'm remiss with my quotes. There were two good ones, including another from Kurt V. on the 18th!
"Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on."
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922- )
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March 20, 2004
(And a Happy Equinox to Everyone. I hope you felt The Balance of the Spheres, whether they were Vernal or Autumnal.)
"The grandfather of Crazy Horse
lived there, they say, at the last,
and his voice like the thrum of the hills
made winter come as he sang, ?'Boy,
where was your buffalo medicine?
I say you were not brave enough, Boy.
I say Crazy Horse was too cautious.'
Then the sound he cried out for his grandson
made that thin Agency soup that they
put before him tremble. The whole
earthen bowl churned into foam."
- Willam Edgar Stafford (1914-1993)
A Sound from the Earth
"Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben
"Don't forget us. Oh, please, don't forget us."
Derian Anderson (1976- ),
Iraqi-bound National Guardswoman
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Mike Barber, March 6, 2004
