What soothes you?
~ Daily question posed by Christina Caron in a NYT article How to Find More Joy in Your Day
Something to ponder...
A strange passion is moving in my head. My heart has become a bird, which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions.
Is it really so, that the one I love is everywhere?
~ Rumi
True then. True now?
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire
Yep
Relationships are complicated.
Intense passion makes people do crazy things.
~ Gabriel, to Emily, in Emily in Paris
This...
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read.The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think.The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
~ Thomas Sowell
Yikes!
The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls, in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.
It would essentially be a system of slavery, where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitude.
~ Aldous Huxley
Seems reasonable
Pundits aren't paid to be right. They're paid to be loud.The sooner everyone realizes this, the better off we'll all be.
~ found on the interwebs
One of my musical heroes...
I'm trying to find out what the top
of the mountain looks like,
and the only way to get there
is by playing every night like
it's my last chance to get this right.
~ Ron Carter (jazz bassist)
In cars...or in life...either works
Big mess, big success.Let's get dirty!
~ Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. creative car designer
Professionalism...
The five people who showed up at your gig deserve the same show you would have given to the 500 people who didn't show up.
~ Joe Quintana
Fires, indeed!
Mike (Jimmy Stewart): There's a magnificence in you, Tracy.
Tracy (Katherine Hepburn): Now...I'm getting self-conscious.
Mike: A magnificence that comes out of your eyes and your voice, and way you stand there and the way you walk. You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you - hearth fires and holocausts!
~ The Philadelphia Story
They have definitions for everything!
In her surveys of 3,000 couples in long-term relationships, Dr. Fraser has found that roughly 33 to 40 percent report that they are in a sexless relationship, clinically defined as having sex together no more than six times a year.
~ in The New York Times
Hanlon got it…
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately be explained by stupidity.
~ Hanlon’s Razor
Yep
One of the signs of intelligence is to be able to accept facts without being offended.
~ Richard Feynman
Who you callin' eccentric?
One should never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.
~ Biloxi Blues
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