Quotation of the day for May 31, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 31, 2010 "The Panthers' Table had been formed some twenty years before, with the not unworthy aim of popularising the consumption of alcohol and promoting gentlemanly friendship. "The Panthers were expected to drink daily and diligently, whether they could hold their drink or not. Akos had been a member once himself, at the very beginning, when the Table was first founded. But he had suddenly grown old, 'soured', as the others complained, and no longer paid them any attention. Many more had fallen by the wayside, collapsing from chronic alcohol poisoning and cirrhosis of the liver, which was how most men in Sarszeg met their end. Every year the Table laid wreaths at their graves. During Kornyey's touching speeches the younger Panther cubs would come close to tears, as did those veterans who, in spite of their snowy hair, still stood their ground and were Panthers to the last." - Dezso Kosztolanyi, in his novel Skylark. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 27, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 30, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 30, 2010 "America, said Horace, the office temp, was a run-down and demented pimp. Our republic's whoremaster days were through. Whither that frost-nerved, diamond-fanged hustler who'd stormed Normandy, dick-smacked the Soviets, turned out such firm emerging market flesh? Now our nation slumped in the corner of the pool hall, some gummy coot with a pint of Mad Dog and soggy yellow eyes, just another mark for the juvenile wolves." - Sam Lipsyte, in The Ask. [http://www.gq.com/entertainment/books/201001/sam-lipsyte-the-ask] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 2, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 29, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 29, 2010 "It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else." - Henri Matisse [For background on the labour involved in verifying this quotation, see http://blog.artic.edu/blog/2010/04/06/some-good-old-fashioned-research/ - eds.] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 27, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 28, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 28, 2010 "To shut our eyes is Travel. The seasons understand this." - Emily Dickinson Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 27, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 27, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 27, 2010 "Stan and Kyle scream out of anger and frustration with the condition of mortality itself, and the wretchedness of the human condition. Existentialists believe that we do not choose our mortality. Rather, we are abandoned in the universe, and mortality limits our freedom. When Kyle and Stan scream curses, they briefly touch on the injustice of our mortality. For humans, there are no clear answers concerning why we are here, or why we have to die." - Karin Fry in, "South Park and philosophy: you know, I learned something today." [http://books.google.com/books?id=BJq0Z8gtO2kC&lpg=PA77&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin May 25, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 26, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 26, 2010 "You see, Islam doesn't have a problem with depicting the Prophet as mad, bloodthirsty and womanising. It doesn't have a problem with depicting the Prophet humorously. Islam has a problem with depiction!" - Ebrahim Rasool, South African MP, 25 May 2010 [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=79&art_id=vn20100525114224952C717677&singlepage=1] Submitted by: Kanthan Pillay May 25, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 25, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 25, 2010 "I gotta good mind to give up living and go shopping instead." - B. B. King, "All Over Again". Submitted by: Terry Labach May 22, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 24, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 24, 2010 "If we can learn anything from the London 2012 Olympic mascots unveiled this week, it's that there's no point in anyone anywhere having a meeting about anything again. Obviously a meeting was held about whether those mascots were a good idea, and someone said, "Sure." So, medium discredited.... "To be fair to the British, nothing of value has ever come out of an 18-month design process involving 40 focus groups. That's what we're told produced these mascots, although a drunken one-night stand between a Teletubby and a Dalek seems like an equally plausible explanation." - Tabatha Southey, on the controversial London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic mascots, one-eyed creatures named Wenlock and Mandeville. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/behold-the-one-eyed-compromise-monster/article1577592/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 23, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 23, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 23, 2010 "Articulating the differences between the engineer and the scientist, between engineering and science, should not take a rocket scientist, though one is often invoked when the most vexing of problems arises." - Henry Petroski, in his 2010 book, The Essential Engineer. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 17, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 22, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 22, 2010 "Consume or die. That's the mandate of the culture." - Don DeLillo, Underworld. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 22, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 21, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 21, 2010 For each type checked above also indicate level of vividness/graphicness using the following as a general guide: Basic (B): large breasts Graphic (G): large, voluptuous bouncing breasts Very graphic (VG): large, voluptuous bouncing breasts with hard nipples Extremely graphic (EG): large, voluptuous bouncing breasts with hard nipples covered with glistening sweat and bite marks - from the "SAMPLE BOOK REVIEW DOCUMENTATION FORM" from Parents Against Bad Books In Schools (PABBIS). [http://pabbis.com/bookreview.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 4, 2005

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Quotation of the day for May 20, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 20, 2010 1. See whatever is to be seen. 2. You should see whatever I have not seen. 3. Write down and describe, as faithfully as possible, whatever you see. 4. To write is not to admire; since you are not a painter, paint everything with words. 5. Whenever you can, abandon the footpaths, the worn crossroads of travellers. 6. Correct whatever can be corrected. - Thomas Gray, author of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". His Maxims In Travelling, translated from Latin, are quoted in The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 7, 2009

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Quotation of the day for May 19, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 19, 2010 "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein Submitted by: "Reddy, Michael" May 13, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 18, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 18, 2010 "Once, we were makers. Now most of us are users." - Jon Mooallem, in his Wired article, "The Lost Tribes of RadioShack: Tinkerers Search for New Spiritual Home". [http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_radioshack/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 12, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 17, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 17, 2010 "If "thirty points," is too dogmatic, the [sic] I offer you an algorithm: find out the age of the oldest person in your audience and divide it by two. That's your optimal font size." - Guy Kawasaki explaining his "10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint" [http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html] Submitted by: Kelly Groves May 13, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 16, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 16, 2010 "I often wanted to kill Brown, but this would not answer. A cub had to take everything his boss gave, in the way of vigorous comment and criticism; and we all believed that there was a United States law making it a penitentiary offense to strike or threaten a pilot who was on duty. However, I could IMAGINE myself killing Brown; there was no law against that; and that was the thing I used always to do the moment I was abed. Instead of going over my river in my mind as was my duty, I threw business aside for pleasure, and killed Brown. I killed Brown every night for months; not in old, stale, commonplace ways, but in new and picturesque ones;--ways that were sometimes surprising for freshness of design and ghastliness of situation and environment." - Mark Twain, in Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 18. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 12, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 15, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 15, 2010 "Teaching has made me an expert in certain skills that are marketable nowhere outside of teaching. You know what I'm talking about. In this case, I reflexively attach an adjective to the word 'balls.' Basket balls. Tennis balls. Cannon balls. Every time. You will never catch me saying 'balls' without modification by an adjective. I wish I was this good at anything else in my life because this won't impress anybody at my ten-year high school reunion." - Dan Meyer, high school math teacher. [http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=5392&] Submitted by: Chris Doherty May 9, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 14, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 14, 2010 "Yeah, it's horrible to think that people spend their whole lives in a rubber factory, pulling the rubber along the belt because the machine doesn't work. I couldn't have done it. The hell with it! Is that what we have to have? I just can't believe it, and yet it seems irreversible. Maybe it's too late to say, small is beautiful, and all that." - Joe Strummer of The Clash, in "Joe Strummer and Robert Fripp in conversation, 1981". [http://www.arthurmag.com/2010/05/09/joe-strummer-and-robert-fripp-in-conversation-1981/] Submitted by: John Cole May 9, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 13, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 13, 2010 "In our real lives, we talk to each other. We don't need to hand our messages to a hub. What Facebook gives you as a user isn't all that hard to do. All the little games, the little walls, the little chat, aren't really rare things. The technology already exists." - Raphael Sofaer, one of four geeky college students who are building an open source alternative to Facebook called Diaspora. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/nyregion/12about.html] [http://joindiaspora.com/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 12, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 12, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 12, 2010 "Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules and rewards. "The so-called "opportunity" I faced would have meant giving up my individual voice for that of a money-grubbing corporation. It would have meant my purpose in writing was to sell things, not say things. My pride in craft would be sacrificed to the efficiency of mass production and the work of assistants. Authorship would become committee decision. Creativity would become work for pay. Art would turn into commerce. In short, money was supposed to supply all the meaning I'd need. "What the syndicate wanted to do, in other words, was turn my comic strip into everything calculated, empty and robotic that I hated about my old job. They would turn my characters into television hucksters and T-shirt sloganeers and deprive me of characters that actually expressed my own thoughts." - Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, on refusing to allow licensing of his cartoon creations. From his Kenyon College Commencement speech, titled "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled", May 20, 1990. Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 26, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 11, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 11, 2010 "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein Submitted by: Reddy, Michael May 6, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 10, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 10, 2010 "That same circuitry is active in your brain today in the amygdala, hippocampus, and related structures. It's hard-wired to scan for the bad, and when it inevitably finds negative things, they're both stored immediately plus made available for rapid recall. In contrast, positive experiences (short of million dollar moments) are usually registered through standard memory systems, and thus need to be held in conscious awareness 10 to 20 seconds for them to really sink in. "In sum, your brain is like velcro for negative experiences and teflon for positive ones." - Rick Hanson, psychologist, and Rick Mendius, neurologist, writing in the journal Inquiring Mind. [http://www.rickhanson.net/wp-content/files/BuddhasBrainArticle.pdf] Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko April 30, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 9, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 9, 2010 "The proper punishment for the comically low-riding trousers favoured by some people is that we all think they look like idiots." - Alex Deane, director of the civil liberties group Big Brother Watch. [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article7116303.ece] Submitted by: Randy Jones May 6, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 8, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 8, 2010 "The bankers pocketed their billions, and now the lawyers are going to swoop in to get theirs. None of this can be good for the economic recovery of the US, as the lawyers just aren't a big enough driver of economic growth in this country." - Chris Gaffney [http://dailypfennig.com/currentIssue.aspx?date=4/19/2010] Submitted by: Duffy OCraven Apr. 20, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 7, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 7, 2010 'Charles Darwin spoke of the "survival of the fittest" as being a central factor in the process of evolution. What exactly did he mean by that phrase? The following quote from his seminal book, The Origin of Species, makes it clear: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change."' - Rob Brezsny, popular astrologer [http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-02-08/columns/horoscope/] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin May 3, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 6, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 6, 2010 "Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We only see the faces of monsters." - Thich Nhat Hanh Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Apr. 15, 2010

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Quotation of the day for May 5, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for May 5, 2010 "Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?" - Harold Pinter Submitted by: Reddy, Michael May 4, 2010

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