Your Quote of the Day

The number of ideas you have rejected and cast into the past determines your level of creativity.

W. A. Narod

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

"Even in this golden age of ministerial incompetence, the transport secretary stands out from the crowd."

Andy McDonald

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47446459

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
William Butler Yeats

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde

"We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life."

Joseph Campbell

As a human animal who has lived for over 80 years on this planet, I feel quite satisfied with the life I was able to lead in our country, the United States of America. The freedoms and opportunities that our country provided, the development of airplanes as public transportation that allows us to travel half way around the world in one day, and our ability to communicate with almost anyone on this planet instantaneously is the miracle of our times. From the time of the Great Depression when I was born in Sacramento, CA, to my "last" home in Sunnyvale, CA, it's been quite a 'trip.' Was able to travel to over 80 countries, visit all 7 continents, and develop friendships in many of them - even in Moscow. I'm only sorry I will not be able to visit with so many friends I have developed over the years, because my wife limits my travels to the US and Canada. Can't complain.

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.”
― Steve Martin

“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.”
― Carl Sagan

“Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.”
― James Joyce, The Dead


Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f63y4XqJSos

Not in the same league. I've just read this and had to put it somewhere.

Mr Grieves-Smith said: "He stated that had he known it was illegal, he would never have had the procedure because he certainly was not that desperate to have his ear removed."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-47658303

Interesting quote, in the light of increasing voter suppression:

“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”
― Mark Twain

There's some truth to that, unfortunately...

Not from this side of the pond with bloody Brexit looming. Voting made a difference, and the government wants to press on regardless.