Quotation of the day for March 31, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 31, 2011 "Frank was a guy--call it ego or what you want--he liked to suffer out loud, to be dramatic. There were plenty of people, big entertainers, who had a wild life or had big problems, but they kept it quiet. Frank had to do his suffering in public, so everyone could see it." - Mitch Miller on Frank Sinatra, quoted in Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan. Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 2, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 30, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 30, 2011 "All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon, in An Avedon Portrait, interview with Jeffrey Brown, October 24, 2002. Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Mar. 14, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 29, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 29, 2011 "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis--O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)--Shower it on the Admiralty!" - J.A.F. Fisher, making the first known use of OMG in a 1917 letter. OMG has recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 28, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 28, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 28, 2011 "People are always surprised to hear that the penis of many organisms are covered with these spines." - David Kingsley of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University School of Medicine. [http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/09/us-humans-dna-idUSTRE7285MF20110309] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 10, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 27, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 27, 2011 "You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to be yours. Move. Move. Move into the transcendent. That's the whole sense of adventure, I think." - Joseph Campbell, in An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms. Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Mar. 7, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 26, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 26, 2011 "I used to be like you. A long time ago. All brand new and perfect. No mistakes, no regrets. People look at you and think of how wonderful your future will be. They want you to be something special, like a doctor, or a lawyer. I hate to tell you this, but if you grow up here, you're more likely to wind up selling your bodies on the streets, or shooting dope from dirty needles in a bus stop. And if you're successful, you'll make money selling junk to crackheads. And don't think twice about killing someone's wife, because you won't even know it's wrong in the first place. "Maybe... you'll end up like me. "A hobo with a shotgun!" - John Davies, screenwriter, from his script for Hobo With A Shotgun. The soliloquy is performed in the movie by actor Rutger Hauer, playing the role of Hobo. [http://hobowithashotgun.com/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 25, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 25, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 25, 2011 "I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me." - Elizabeth Taylor, actress (1932 - 2011). Submitted by: Dorene Smith Mar. 23, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 24, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 24, 2011 "There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets." - Robert G. Ingersoll Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 2, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 23, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 23, 2011 "The truth is we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will and do know all things." - Jorge Luis Borges, "Labyrinths" Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Mar. 2, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 22, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 22, 2011 "Also, watching Fox News for a laugh. This is a hard one. Bill O'Reilly is attacking The New York Times again: "The New York Times is about as uber-left as you can get!" I was laughing so hard I had to swallow the Werther's Original I was sucking on. There's another thing to give up -- the hard candy for watching the news channels." - John Doyle, television critic, on what he is giving up for Lent this year. Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 21, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 21, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 21, 2011 "What have I learned? That friendship, not money, is real security. That most western poverty is of the spiritual kind. That independence is really interdependence. And that if you don't own a plasma screen TV, people think you're an extremist." - Mark Boyle, founder of The Freeconomy Community, on living without money for a year. Boyle chronicled the year in his 2010 book, The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living. [http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 13, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 20, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 20, 2011 "I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 1, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 19, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 19, 2011 "Put an end to fighting. It has nothing to do with the sport, it's harmful and contrived, it discourages skilled young athletes from continuing in the game, puts off more fans than it draws in, dumbs down Canadian culture and isn't necessary despite what all the NHL apologists and armchair sadists contend. Other professional sports manage to ban fighting without losing their appeal or sacrificing their macho DNA. So just get rid of it, and let the lovers of mindless brutality get their fix with mixed-martial arts." - John Allemang, from his 10-point plan to reform professional hockey. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/a-10-step-hockey-reformation-as-imagined-by-john-allemang/article1939534/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 13, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 18, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 18, 2011 "You cannot have a science without measurement." - R. W. Hamming Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 9, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 17, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 17, 2011 "Totalitarian regimes...come in two varieties: religious and secular....Secular totalitarianism, like Nazism and Communism, is basically theocracy without the metaphysics." - Barbara Amiel, in "Sorry to rain on everyone`s parade, but...", Macleans, February 28, 2011. Submitted by: Z.D. Hora Feb. 24, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 16, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 16, 2011 "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Mar. 9, 2011

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Quotation of the day for March 15, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 15, 2011 "Have we lost that kind of relationship with music, what with iPods and such?" "That breaks my heart. Part of my love of music was music coming from a jukebox, from across an oyster shell parking lot into parked cars where people were eating food. This isolated consumption of music now, it's troubling to me because it's not shared. And it's not incidental." - Rodney Crowell, singer/songwriter, in an interview with Brad Wheeler. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/like-his-mother-rodney-crowell-tells-stories/article1937115/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 13, 2011

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