Quotation of the day for May 31, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 31, 2011 "Mormonism is mainstream, and when you want to be a mainstream religion you open yourself up to mainstream criticism. Catholics have been subject to criticism for decades. Now we've arrived, and we're on Broadway." - Dustin C. Jones, a lawyer and a Mormon from Phoenix, who saw the Broadway musical "Book of Mormon". [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/us/31mormon.html?_r=1&hp] Submitted by: Dave McLean Mar. 31, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 30, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 30, 2011 "Receiving a tax cut is like standing up at a concert in order to get a better view. It's easy enough to see why an individual might be tempted. But if everyone does it, the gains become much less clear-cut." - Stephen Gordon, on the illusory benefits of tax cuts. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/stephen-gordon/the-truth-behind-tax-cuts-you-might-not-be-better-off/article1960947/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 29, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 29, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 29, 2011 "Beauty is a very valuable thing; perhaps it is the most valuable thing in life; but the power to express emotion so that it shall communicate itself intact and exactly is almost more valuable." - Ford Madox Ford, reviewing the poetry of Ezra Pound. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 12, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 28, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 28, 2011 "One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. It is by no means necessarily an objection to a to a book when anyone finds it incomprehensible: perhaps that was part of the author's intention - he didn't want to be understood by just 'anybody'." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 26, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 27, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 27, 2011 "If compared to a car, the shot that won the Western Conference title for the Vancouver Canucks was a 1975 Dodge Dart, almost out of gas, the muffler scraping along the pavement into the service station just in time. It was not the kind of goal one might expect to prompt confetti to fall from the rafters and for a city to rejoice in the streets." - Adrian Dater, Sports Illustrated, from a photo caption in the Vancouver Sun, May 25, 2011, after the Vancouver Canucks won their series against the San Jose Sharks. Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko May 26, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 26, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 26, 2011 "You've got to surround yourself with musicians who think. That are not comfortable. I don't like to be around a comfortable person. I can't be around a comfortable person. Nothing bounces off them. You get nothing." - Miles Davis, from an interview in the documentary The Miles Davis Story. Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Apr. 20, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 25, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 25, 2011 "When it was proclaimed that the Library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness. All men felt themselves to be the masters of an intact and secret treasure. There was no personal or world problem whose eloquent solution did not exist in some hexagon. The universe was justified, the universe suddenly usurped the unlimited dimensions of hope. At that time a great deal was said about the Vindications: books of apology and prophecy which vindicated for all time the acts of every man in the universe and retained prodigious arcana for his future. Thousands of the greedy abandoned their sweet native hexagons and rushed up the stairways, urged on by the vain intention of finding their Vindication. These pilgrims disputed in the narrow corridors, proferred dark curses, strangled each other on the divine stairways, flung the deceptive books into the air shafts, met their death cast down in a similar fashion by the inhabitants of remote regions. Others went mad ... The Vindications exist (I have seen two which refer to persons of the future, to persons who are perhaps not imaginary) but the searchers did not remember that the possibility of a man's finding his Vindication, or some treacherous variation thereof, can be computed as zero." - Jorge Luis Borges (1900-1986), from his short story The Library of Babel. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 21, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 24, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 24, 2011 "...These people are grad students, and they are idiots. "This book is for readers considering or already committed to spending the best years of their lives without sunlight. You'll learn which departmental events have the best free food, what pranks to play on hot-but-vapid undergrads, how to convincingly fudge data, and why your friends who opted to take nondescript nine-to-five jobs after college were actually the smart ones." - Adam Ruben, from his book Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 2, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 23, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 23, 2011 "I left Sarah Jane a great many years ago, but she never left me." - Elisabeth Sladen, actress, on the 2005 return of the television program Doctor Who. Sladen played Sarah Jane Smith on the series and its spinoffs from 1973 to 2010. She died of cancer, on April 19, 2011, aged 63. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 20, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 22, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 22, 2011 "Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice. When you're in town stand outside the theatre and see how the people differ in the way they get out of taxis or motor cars. There are a thousand ways to practice. And always think of other people." - Ernest Hemingway, quoted in By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades. Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Apr. 14, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 21, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 21, 2011 Alan: And what will happen to the houses? Peter: Well, naturally, the houses will be swept away and the tents of the ungodly with them, and they will all be consumed by the power of the heavens and on earth - and serve them right! Alan: And shall we be consumed? Peter: Con..sum..ed? No, we shall not be consumed - we shall be up on the mountain here, you see, while millions burn, having a bit of a giggle. - Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett, from the 1961 Beyond The Fringe sketch, The End of the World. May 21, 2011 has been suggested as the date for the end of the world by Harold Camping, a preacher from Oakland, California. [qotd subscribers are requested to make their Amazon purchases through our store early so that we receive our commission before the Rapture. -eds.] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 19, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 20, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 20, 2011 The cubs and the lions are snoring, Wrapped in a big snuggly heap. How come you can do all this other great s*** But you can't lie the f*** down and sleep?" - Adam Mansbach, from his not-for-children bedtime book, Go the F*** to Sleep. [http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/things-that-go-pop-blog/2011/05/tongue-in-cheek-bedtime-book-goes-viral.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 19, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 19, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 19, 2011 "Goldman isn't a pudgy housewife who broke her diet with a few Nilla Wafers between meals -- it's an advanced-stage, 1,100-pound medical emergency who hasn't left his apartment in six years, and is found by paramedics buried up to his eyes in cupcake wrappers and pizza boxes." - Matt Taibbi, "The People vs. Goldman Sachs", Rolling Stone, May 26, 2011, on the excesses of the financial behmoth Goldman Sachs. [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-people-vs-goldman-sachs-20110511] Submitted by: Kanthan Pillay May 14, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 18, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 18, 2011 "The trick in casting is to hire great people, let them do what they do, don`t interfere too much, and then when they`re great, take credit for it. I`ve done it for years. Works like a charm." - Woody Allen, in Cannes, France, after the screening of his new movie Midnight in Paris, May 2011. Submitted by: Z.D. Hora May 13, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 17, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 17, 2011 "They got the World Wide Web completely wrong. It is a strange, distorted, peculiar and difficult limited system... the browser is built around invisible links - you can see something to click on but you've got nowhere else to go." - Ted Nelson, creator of hypertext. criticizing the design of the World Wide Web. [http://www.cio.com.au/article/383395/hypertext_creator_says_structure_world_wide_web_completely_wrong_/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 15, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 16, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 16, 2011 "Keep in mind what I told you -- when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are. Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least." - Mark Twain, in a May 6, 1880 letter to his brother Orion Clemens, commenting on a draft of Orion's autobiography. Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 30, 2011

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Quotation of the day for May 15, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for May 15, 2011 "Art represents the highest task and the truly metaphysical activity of this life." - Friedrich Nietzsche Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 24, 2011

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