Quotation of the day for April 30, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 30, 2010 "You know what's really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it." - Amanda Palmer, singer, giving advice to young fans who mistake her personal choice to not shave for authenticity. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/fashion/15skin.html] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Apr. 12, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 29, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 29, 2010 "PowerPoint makes us stupid." - General James N. Mattis, Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command, speaking at an April 2010 military conference. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Apr. 27, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 28, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 28, 2010 "I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete-that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theater Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash." - J.D. Salinger, in his book Franny and Zooey. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 16, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 27, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 27, 2010 "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. "But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it's important, for example, that we are all subject, in the United States, to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities." - Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, in a December 3, 2009 CNBC interview with Maria Bartiromo. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/google-ceo-on-privacy-if_n_383105.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 26, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 26, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 26, 2010 "My joke after that movie was, That man is definitely on the side of the machines." - Linda Hamilton, on making the movie Terminator with director James Cameron. Hamilton and Cameron later married and divorced. [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_goodyear] Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 16, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 25, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 25, 2010 "People were mainly interested in technical questions like the mechanics of moving, wondering 'Could we do it?' " he said. "But nobody asked the question of 'Should we do it?'" - Michael Fischer, Yale computer science professor, on consideration of using Google as Yale's e-mail provider. [http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/03/30/its-delays-switch-gmail-community-input/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 13, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 24, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 24, 2010 "Like everyone else, I have need of relationships of friendship or affection or trusting companionship, and am not like a street pump or lamp-post, whether of stone or iron..." - Vincent van Gogh, from a letter he wrote to his brother Theo in August 1879. [http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/download/Van_Gogh_Letters_Description_EN_Jan10.pdf] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 19, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 23, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 23, 2010 "It is like coming around a corner and seeing the most magnificent sunset of your life, from one horizon to the other where it looks like the whole sky is on fire and there are all those colors, and the sun's rays look like some great painting up over your head. You just want to open your eyes wide and try to look around at the image, and just try and soak it up. It's like that all the time. Or maybe the most beautiful music just filling your soul. Or seeing an absolutely gorgeous person where you can't just help but stare. It's like that all the time." - Chris Hadfield, astronaut, describing spacewalking. [http://www.universetoday.com/2010/03/16/spacewalking-through-an-astronauts-eyes/] Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Mar. 16, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 22, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 22, 2010 "If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed." - Thomas Wolfe Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 9, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 21, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 21, 2010 "We're freaks, that's all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that's all. We're the Tattooed Lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too." - J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) from Franny and Zooey. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 16, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 20, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 20, 2010 "Fairy tales are the way we tell our children that there are people out there who might want to eat them. They are warnings, in fantasy form, of the reality and the dangers of the world." - Steven Moffat, explaining that Doctor Who is a modern fairy tale, in season 5 episode 2 of "Doctor Who Confidential". Submitted by: Harald Koch Apr. 14, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 19, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 19, 2010 "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn." - Gore Vidal Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Apr. 13, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 18, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 18, 2010 "The lesson has been learned. In the current episode, in contrast to the 1930s, policymakers around the world worked assiduously to stabilize the financial system. As a result, although the economic consequences of the financial crisis have been painfully severe, the world was spared an even worse cataclysm that could have rivaled or surpassed the Great Depression." - Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, speaking on April 8, 2010. [http://imarketnews.com/node/11508] Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Apr. 13, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 17, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 17, 2010 Q. So you're headed on an extensive book tour. How do you prepare? A. Well, the main thing is that I always have to buy new underwear, in case I am involved in a plane crash. I do not actually believe in flying, as a concept, so best to be wearing nice fresh underpants, in case you are not burned beyond recognition. I just bought a whole new batch. My old ones were actually disintegrating. But nice and roomy and soft, like underpants a dancing bear might wear. Or Boris Yeltsin, if he ever got into cross-dressing. - Anne Lamott, in an interview with Salon published April 12, 2010. [http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/04/12/anne_lamott_imperfect_birds/index.html] Submitted by: Kalda, Robyn Apr. 14, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 16, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 16, 2010 "To conjecture about something is to measure its probability. The Art of Conjecturing or the Stochastic Art is therefore defined as the art of measuring as exactly as possible the probabilities of things so that in our judgments and actions we can always choose or follow that which seems to be better, more satisfactory, safer, and more considered." - Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705), in The Art of Conjecturing (Ars Conjectandi), which was unfinished at his death and published in 1713 Submitted by: Duffy O'Craven Apr. 9, 2009

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Quotation of the day for April 15, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 15, 2010 "All history is one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others." - William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Apr. 13, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 14, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 14, 2010 "The difference between man and animal is that man is capable of establishing priorities!" - Mikhail Botvinnik, chess grandmaster Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 9, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 13, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 13, 2010 "I remembered an extraordinary musical performance at a tiny AIDS hospice in Thailand, during a tour by violinist Maxim Vengerov in his role as a cultural ambassador for UNICEF. Vengerov took out his Stradivarius violin and played to the audience of fifteen - including visitors - with all the energy and concentration that I had seen him give to a packed Sydney Opera House a few months earlier. He played a fugue by Bach and the music seemed to take on a life of its own. It floated around the bed where a young soldier lay: his AIDS was discovered after a sergeant beat him so badly his intestines fell out. And it rested for a moment on a little boy whose hill-tribesman father was HIV positive, and who would soon be an orphan. It swirled gently around a middle-aged woman with purple blotches on her arms, and an old man, so weak that he couldn't even raise his head. . . . "It is the secret of knowing yourself and your materials so well that you can wrap your life's experiences into the very body of an instrument, just as a true musician puts his or her life experiences into the playing of it, as I had seen at the hospice. And when both elements are right, then together - maker and musician - you can persuade your violin to sing and cry and dance the orange." - Victoria Finlay, from Color, A Natural History of the Palette. Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Mar. 5, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 12, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 12, 2010 "Today our society places great emphasis on specialization and focus. Students used to go off to university with the idea of broadening themselves; now it has become a mostly vocational experience. Students use higher education as a means to develop a skill that will make them attractive to employers. We place so much emphasis on being good at what we do that we fail to realize that getting better at what we do might be best achieved by getting better at other--and wildly different--things." - Garry Kasparov, chess player and politician, from his book How Life Imitates Chess. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 9, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 11, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 11, 2010 "It's a really slick cookbook. Jamie Oliver-style." - David Barry, of The Fur Institute of Canada, on the cookbook Seal in the Modern Kitchen. The institute is planning to produce Canadian versions of the seal cookbook, originally published in 2006 by the European Union. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 9, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 10, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 10, 2010 "I'm most probably a missing link that a lot of people don't know. Someone has to tie the loose ends between the Sixties and the Nineties. That has been left open (to me) because no one is aware what artists had to face in the Seventies." - Malcolm McLaren, entrepeneur, promoter, musician, and mastermind behind the Sex Pistols. McLaren died April 8, 2010. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 9, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 9, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 9, 2010 "I have received a funny letter from T. S. Eliot, in which there is an ironical reference to me which he maintains ... is a compliment. I do not know how to reply and therefore he wins." - Isaiah Berlin, in a letter to a friend. Printed in Enlightening: Letters 1946-1960, edited by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 25, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 8, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 8, 2010 "Indian food made me more English. Like most Englishmen of my generation I now think of takeout or delivered Indian food as a native dish imported centuries before. I am English enough to think of Indian food in particular as an aspect of England that I miss here in the US where Chinese is the ethnic dish of local preference. But my Englishness also leads me to miss East European Jewish cuisine in its very slightly adapted British form (a little more boiling, a little less spice than Jewish cooking here in the US). I can work up a nostalgia for fish and chips, but in truth it is nothing more than a self-generated gastronomic Heritage Exercise. We hardly ever ate the stuff when I was a child. Were I ever truly to set out in Search of Past Taste I would begin with braised beef and baked turnip, followed by chicken tikka masala and pickled wollies swabbed in challah, Kingfisher beer and sweet lemon tea. As for the madeleine that would trigger the memory? Naan dunked in matzoh ball soup, served by a Yiddish-speaking waiter from Madras. We are what we ate. And I am very English." - Tony Judt, historian, from his essay Food. Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 25, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 7, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 7, 2010 "... I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: 'Yes; the little ones does.' " - Mark Twain, in "Tom Sawyer Abroad", as narrated by Huckleberry Finn. Submitted by: John Spinosa Mar. 23, 2010

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Quotation of the day for April 6, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for April 6, 2010 "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." - W. C. Fields, comedian. Submitted by: Brian K. Read Mar. 20, 2010

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