Your Quote of the Day

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

I felt like a jellyfish nailed to a plank.

Henry Miller in Dijon where they make the mustard.

Tropic of Cancer.

"Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders.”
Pete Seeger

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off".
~ Stephen King.

“There'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood. ”
Bob Hope

"Ave atque vale."
Gaivs Ivlivs Caesar on entering the Senate Forum , 15 March, 44 bce

Introibo ad altare Dei.

Buck Mulligan

Pax vobiscum

Lustig Andrei

arigato gozaimasu

dozo

Kowabunga.

don't have a cow, man

B Simpson

... is it always necessary for one generation to wade through oceans of blood and heap up mountains of human sacrifice that the next generation may learn a grain of truth from it all?

Emma Goldman

For Joe Nation & Thomas

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast"

~William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet

I thought that was Catallus LA.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE. King Solomon's Mines. Chapter 16 The Place of Death.

The book is the mine and Sir Henry is Solomon.

An unrecognised masterpiece of English Literature thanks to the machinations of the PC Brigade.

Take care sweet girl, no-one knows and no-one understands.
Skimmed milk, and worse, they drink, cut-glass they're clutching in their hands.
Diamonds in my hand, diamonds in my hand, right here,
Take them love, they're your's to keep,
Broken pots in ancient tombs spill them out
And angels reappear.

Cynical spendi wrote that not long after reading KSM as an adult. It's a bit of a joke on Cleland's "estimable jewels".

There's nothing going on in a creative act outside of the study or studio in which it appears on what was a blank space previously.

The composer of a train timetable is promoting a particular constellation of values.

One might easily see the success with which timetable composers have promoted a particular constellation of values by the rage exhibited by passengers when there is a delay. The rage is very low key at the 2 minute mark mind you, only the most impatient doing a bit of eye-rolling, but it gradually builds up as the time that flies flies by.

“You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.”
Mel Brooks

I think you're drunker than me.