Your Quote of the Day

Nah--I'm an optimist ed. I don't care for one man having a lock on such things. He might not have been born. Where are you then?

"Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there is an exchange of ideas."
Willem Dafoe

Our time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
- Steve Jobs

"Im going to fight this (The 1964 Civil Rights Act) right up till the day I sign it"
Lyndon Johnson

"I knew that in the shady world of cultural journalism there was a lot of trickery going on."

Anthony Burgess.

“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ”
― Samuel Johnson

"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."

- William Hazlitt

“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

"He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right."
-- Coco Chanel

“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
― Yogi Berra

"The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly."

Anthony Burgess.

Invent characters. Set them in motion and have them make fools of themselves and each other.

Of course. I had to remove a few characters from some short stories and run in substitutes. The originals just would not cooperate.

The Colbert Report, 1/22/14

" Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress and memory is the servant."
Victor Hugo

That sounds ridiculous to me Germie.

He might have been better saying Intelligence is the wife, a fanciful proposition, imagination is the mistress, in the initial phase at least, and the casual encounter is the servant.

Not that I would say anything so superficial and dishonest in the first place but if I was to do, on an arty-farty TV discussion aimed at self-improvers, say, I would say something like that and recross my legs for a full stop and ponder whether my wife, my mistress or my servant hadn't changed her mind about the tie she had insisted I would look good wearing.

I'm not as literal minded as you are Spendi. This could be interpreted in many ways. The sexual connotation is merely playful fancy. I don't believe it's to be taken as a moral statement. It could also be interpreted in this way:
Intelligence is the cake
Imagination the icing
Memory the crumbs

That's much better Germie. It has a humility I approve of which Hugo definitely did not have.

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth