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"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time...."

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:04:06 -0500

“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”

- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)

"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time..."

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:03:05 -0500

“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.”

- Swatch, Always Now, 1997

"IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership."

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:03:05 -0500

“IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.”

- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil’s Dictionary

"It’s so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit."

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:03:05 -0500

“It’s so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.”

- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000

"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:03:05 -0500

“I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.”

- Frank Deford

"Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy."

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:03:05 -0500

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.”

- Robert Anthony

"FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through..."

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:04:05 -0500

“FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war — founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting — such as creation’s dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man’s evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.”

- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil’s Dictionary

"Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday..."

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:03:05 -0500

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

- Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky

"People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:05:05 -0500

“People don’t believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.”

- Seth Godin, Seth Godin’s Blog, 07-29-06

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:06:06 -0500

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”

- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:05:05 -0500

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”

- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

"But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite..."

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:05:06 -0500

“But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”

- Lois McMaster Bujold, “Barrayar”, 1991

"My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they’re in August."

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:05:05 -0500

“My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they’re in August.”

- Ronnie Shakes

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until..."

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:05:05 -0500

“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”

- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)

"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we..."

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:05:05 -0500

“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”

- Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993

"Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter."

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:05:06 -0500

“Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.”

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

"We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests..."

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:05:05 -0500

“We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.”

- Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003

"Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are."

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:05:06 -0500

“Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.”

- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

"Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass."

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:05:05 -0500

“Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.”

- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), ‘De l’experience,’ 1580-88

"While you’re saving your face you’re losing your ass."

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:05:06 -0500

“While you’re saving your face you’re losing your ass.”

- Lyndon Baines Johnson