Quotation of the day for April 30, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 30, 2011 "The necessity of moderation in drink is happily a thing few cricketers need to be reminded of. There are many opinions as to what is the best drink for men when actually playing. By best we mean that which does least harm to the eye. In hot weather something must be drunk, the question is what? Our experience is that beer and stout are both too heady and heavy, gin and ginger beer are too sticky and sweet to the palate, ouzo is alright if playing in Corfu. In our opinion, shandy-gaff, sherry, or claret and soda are the most thirst quenching, the lightest and the cleanest to the palate. In a long innings the heat and dust are apt to make the mouth very dry and parched and a clean drink is especially desirable." - A.G. Steel and Alfred Lyttelton, from Cricket. Quoted in Batting On The Bosphorus by writer and cricket tourist, Angus Bell. [http://www.angusjjbell.com/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 18, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 29, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 29, 2011 "The cynicism of the purveyors of these fantasies is that they know very well what they are playing at, the prejudices they are fanning: that Obama is foreign, a fake, incapable of writing a book, incapable of intellectual achievement. Let's say what is plainly true (and what the President himself is reluctant to say): these rumors, this industry of fantasy, are designed to arouse a fear of the Other, of an African-American man with a white American mother and a black Kenyan father.... "The one radical thing about Barack Obama is his race, his name. Of course, there is nothing innately radical about being black or having Hussein as middle name; what is radical is that he has those attributes and is sitting in the Oval Office. And even now, more than two years after the fact, this is deeply disturbing to many people, and, at the same time, the easiest way to arouse visceral opposition to him. Let's be even plainer: to do what Trump has done (and he is only the latest and loudest and most spectacularly hirsute) is a conscious form of race-baiting, of fear-mongering. And if that makes Donald Trump proud, then what does that say for him? Perhaps now he will go away, satisfied that this passage has sufficiently restored his fame quotient and television ratings. The shame is that there are still many more around who, in the name of truth-telling, are prepared to pump the atmosphere full of poison." - David Remnick, from an article posted on the New Yorker's web site, Trump, Birtherism, and Race-Baiting. [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/trump-birtherism-and-race-baiting.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 28, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 28, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 28, 2011 "Almost 50 years after Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," and the tide of synthetic chemicals is only rising. We are faced, every day, with an overwhelming number of choices as consumers: Do I choose this detergent or that one? This mattress or that one? The chemical lawn-care company or the "green" one? This shouldn't be so hard. We're talking about washing our children's hair. Or cleaning the sink. Or tending a garden. Why has this become so complicated? And on what information do we make our decisions?" - McKay Jenkins, author of the 2011 book What's Gotten into Us?, on the dangers of chemicals in our environment. [http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/04/16/what_gotten_into_us_excerpt/index.html] Submitted by: Trevor Goodyear Apr. 18, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 27, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 27, 2011 "The Bijou used to show good movies but the Brethren and some Lutherans ganged up on Art and made him stop, so now you have to drive to St. Cloud if you want to see unmarried people together in one room with the door closed. It's a shame. I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us." - Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days" Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 10, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 26, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 26, 2011 "In lieu of flowers, please vote LIBERAL." - from the obituary for John Bolan, written by his wife Bernice and family members. Bolan died April 25, 2011 at the age of 78. Canada is in the midst of a federal election, to be held May 2, called after the ruling Conservative Party was defeated in Parliament. Bolan was a Liberal Party supporter. [Note to our American readers: LIBERAL doesn't mean what you think it means. -eds.] [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/obits-get-political-in-lieu-of-flowers-please-vote-liberal/article1998038/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 25, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 25, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 25, 2011 "Atlas Shrugged: Part I, the new cinematic adaptation of Ayn Rand's multimillion-selling novel, ends with a long list of special thanks. [Among others] The producers thank the Club for Growth, the organization that helps liberal Republicans spend more time with their families..." - David Weigel [http://www.slate.com/id/2287075/pagenum/all] Submitted by: Duffy OCraven Mar. 12, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 24, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 24, 2011 "It is in the margins that poems are found." - Osip Mandelstam Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 19, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 23, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 23, 2011 "Muddy Waters' music changed my life, and whether you know it or not, and like it or not, it probably changed yours, too." - Eric Clapton, quoted on a plaque located at the original site of blues great Muddy Waters' childhood house. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ma_and_pa/2552653141/in/photostream/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 7, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 22, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 22, 2011 "[H]ow amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair cut, and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death." - Jeffrey Eugenides, from his novel Middlesex. Submitted by: Prem Pahlajrai Apr. 2, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 21, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 21, 2011 "Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved." - Will Rogers Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Apr. 12, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 20, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 20, 2011 "It was a pretty good bayonet holder." - Raymond Madonna, a U.S. Marine captain, describing in 1967 the only thing the M-16 rifle used by U.S. forces in Vietnam was good for. Quoted in The Gun by C. J. Chivers, a history of assault rifles. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 7, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 19, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 19, 2011 "...if we take the liberty of equating angels with transistors, we can make a case for the existence of a modern kind of miracle." - William Shatner in the 1976 "gee whiz" computer film, "Microworld." [http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/03/27/microworld/] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Mar. 28, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 18, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 18, 2011 "The sad thing is, I'm not alone. Every college teacher I know is bemoaning the same kind of thing. Whether it's rude behavior, lack of intellectual rigor, or both, we are all struggling with the same frightening decline in student performance and academic standards at institutions of higher learning. A sense of entitlement now pervades the academy, excellence be damned. "Increasingly, students seem not to realize what a college degree, especially a graduate degree, tells the world about one's abilities and competence. They have no clue what is expected of them at the higher levels of academic discourse and what will be expected of them in the workplace. Having passed through a deeply flawed education system in which no one is paying attention to critical thinking and writing skills, they just want to know what they have to do to make their teachers tick the box that says "pass." After all, that's what all their other teachers have done. (Let the next guy worry about it.)" - Elayne Clift, from the essay From Students, a Misplaced Sense of Entitlement. [http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Should-Check-Their/126890/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 29, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 17, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 17, 2011 "Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one." - Nick Hornby [Happy Record Store Day!] Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 16, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 16, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 16, 2011 "We've replaced the time we used to spend cooking food with watching people cook food on TV." - Fiona Yeudall, director of Ryerson University's Centre for Studies in Food Security. Quoted in "Foodies: Are food crazies getting their just desserts?" in The Globe and Mail, Saturday, Mar. 19, 2011. Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 21, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 15, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 15, 2011 "Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town." - Tom Waits, musician, on Record Store Day, which falls on April 16 in 2011. [http://recordstoreday.com] Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 6, 2011

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Quotation of the day for April 14, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for April 14, 2011 "They're saying they're tough on crime but Mr. Harper is very soft on crime in his own office." - Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Quebecois in the Canadian Parliament, on the Conservative Party government during the federal leaders' election debate on April 12, 2011. It was recently discovered that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had an advisor in his office who had been convicted five times of fraud, and who brought an ex-prostitute to an event at the Prime Minister's residence. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 12, 2011

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