Your Quote of the Day

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

On the Green train to the MFA,

Anonymous (elderly white bearded gentleman), directed at me as he got up from his seat to leave the train at the next station.... for unkown reason(s).

was he sitting eye level with your zipper?

All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers came and destroyed our villages. Then Long Hair came... They say we massacred him, but he would have done the same to us. Our first impulse was to escape but we were so hemmed in we had to fight.
Crazy Horse

Maybe Tsarstepan bears an uncanny resemblance to Kurt Russell.

“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another
person is the silence in us. Not the sort of silence that
is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal.
The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of
acceptance of someone as they are.”
— Rachel Naomi Remen

Comedian Jon Stewart talking about watching Clint Eastwood's bizarre speech at the Republican convention:
"This is the most joy I have gotten from an old man since Dick Cheney non-fatally shot one in the face."

Since Labor/Labour day is coming up, how about this one.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest

That quote was the sermon on the mount, wasn't it, letty?

I wonder what all those folks are doing with those torches and pitchforks...

Frankie.

“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”
― George Washington

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
- Buffalo Bill

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot

Catholic, which I was, until I reached the age of reason ... .

George Carlin

"Normal human reason, although naturally not susceptible of an interpretation universally to be accepted over the whole range of cases likely to arise in jurisprudence, may nevertheless be adequately defined as that state of mind in those neither non compos mentis, nor of such mental superiority as to be incapable of sharing the thought processes of the majority of persons comprising a reasonably civilised community, in which it is possible for the subject to comprehend the speech, writing, radio-telephonic and television communications, together with the technical terms and processes likely to be encountered in everyday life to the extent that he or she will not suffer any of the direr misfortunes attendant upon a failure of comprehension in these respects."

C.J.Blundell.

An ideal example being someone fluffing up the anti-Catholic claque in order to attract up-thumbs.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke

“Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”
― Henry James

Yup, I live for up thumbs, Spendi. You've noticed that from my posts, haven't you?

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding
place, the place they can put everything they know they
need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every
nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it
safe. I will keep it safe.
—Andrea Gibson

“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.”
― Clarence Darrow