I'm not a cynic, I'm a sceptic - I try to question information but not motives.


~  Penn Jillette

Steve Jobs' last words...

Oh, wow.  Oh, wow.  Oh, wow.

"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”  

 ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Don't acquire what you can't afford...

90 square foot apartment in downtown Manhattan

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

~Benjamin Franklin

Do not ask for success unless you're ready to conquer the behaviours that would sabotage success.
~ Melody Beattie

How great it is that not a single person need to wait before changing the world.


~ Anne Frank

Do you smell something?

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere 
~ Henry David Thoreau

Being with someone you love is high on the list of life's great pleasures. But so is vanishing for days into a cherished pursuit with no one to answer to. So is not having to deal with another person's schedule, stomach or tiresome shtick. And in case you haven't heard, marriage, for all its hype, can be a real bummer sometimes. I've been lonely married and I've been lonely single, and compared to the torture of sleeping beside someone you no longer love, or know has left the building, or maybe are hoping will choke in his sleep, lonely single is a walk in the park.

~ Wendy Dennis, 'Are You Dating Yet?'

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

~ Emerson

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

~ Emerson

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

~ Stephen King

"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
~ Christopher Hitchens

“…the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” 

– Hubert H. Humphrey

Songs, or elections, whatever

“I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling.

I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.”

~ singer-songwriter Woodie Guthrie

WYSIWYG: Enjoying life is the direct result of a favorable attitude


~ read on a Bahama vacation chat list...

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

~ Lenny Bruce

Artists understand that new isn't for everyone.  It's not even for most people.  Pass them by. They can catch up later.

~ Seth Godin

I gotta admit, I see his point...

The spectacle of high-income Americans, the world’s luckiest people, wallowing in self-pity and self-righteousness would be funny, except for one thing: they may well get their way. Never mind the $700 billion price tag for extending the high-end tax breaks: virtually all Republicans and some Democrats are rushing to the aid of the oppressed affluent.

You see, the rich are different from you and me: they have more influence. It’s partly a matter of campaign contributions, but it’s also a matter of social pressure, since politicians spend a lot of time hanging out with the wealthy. So when the rich face the prospect of paying an extra 3 or 4 percent of their income in taxes, politicians feel their pain — feel it much more acutely, it’s clear, than they feel the pain of families who are losing their jobs, their houses, and their hopes.

  ~ Paul Krugman in The Angry Rich Op Ed in the NYT, Sept 19, 2010

I
didn't
shoplift
the pootie!

~ Jerry in Jerry MaGuire