Quotation of the Day for September 26, 2011
"The truest memorial America could offer those who died on 9/11 is to refuse to fall into the moral orbit of the death-cults we claim to abhor. No reflecting pools, no spires at 1776 feet, none of it. We shouldn't have become the photo-negative of jihadis seeking martyrdom, cowering in the skirts of craven politicians promising to shield us from harm and make our streets safe for commerce.
"We should have rebuilt the towers exactly as they were, within a year. We should have marked the ground with a small, tasteful plaque, and held annual parades celebrating the season we brushed off the worst Osama bin Laden and his pals could dish, then turned on the demagogues screeching from the most shameful perspectives present in our national dialogue when they asked us to pay for the victims' deaths with civil liberties. We should be whooping and hollering and singing songs about how al-Qaeda bored us, how bin Laden died from neglect, his corpse reeking in the stank of his own sick creed, how not one American teenager died thinking he or she was fighting Saddam over 9/11, and no Afghani or Iraqi teenager died thinking American teenagers were invaders, or occupiers. We should be celebrating how we were centered enough to tar and feather our own vilest blowhards and ride them to Harlem on a rail."
- Steve Marlow, "Prepositional Phrases".
[http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/potpurri/prepositional_phrases.html]
Submitted by: Chris Doherty
Sep. 15, 2011
The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 25, 2011
"It's a bit facetious, but take LSD. See some bigger pictures."
- Simon de Jong, former member of the Canadian Parliament, when asked recently what he would do if he was Prime Minister. de Jong died August 18, 2011.
[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/deaths/simon-de-jong-was-the-countrys-left-wing-wild-card/article2159134/]
Submitted by: Terry Labach
Sep. 9, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 24, 2011
"A poet once said, `life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it's never easy when there's so much on the line'."
- Herman Cain, candidate for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination, inadvertently quoting from the Donna Summer song "The Power of One" - better known as the theme song from Pokemon: The Movie 2000 - during the August 11, 2011 Iowa Republican presidential debates.
[http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/did_herman_cain_know_he_was_qu.html]
Submitted by: Bob Bruhin
Aug. 12, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 23, 2011
"I have something of a pet theory about LPs in charity shops, which is that while they can and do supply reams of fascinating data about the rise and fall of musical trends and formats, the shifts in status of artists as their records slide from ubiquity to obsolescence (oh, happy day it was when copies of No Jacket Required and Brothers In Arms started turning up in Help the Aged shops in the early 1990s), they also tell us (or did for a long time anyway) that Mantovani and his peers (Frank Chacksfield, Percy Faith, Bert Kaempfert, Ray Conniff, James Last, et al) once bestrode the world as musical colossi. Which, though probably truer than we'd like to admit, now seems unimaginable -- and odd.
"If, for example, some peculiar meteor were to strike the earth, triggering an even more bizarre apocalyptic event that wiped out at a stroke most of the globe's population and every LP ever made, except those stored in charity shops (bear with me on this: it's something to do with the uniquely awful window displays -- wonky dummies clad in previously unimaginable combinations of man-made fibre outfits and figurines of small children with dogs -- deflecting the vinyl-, cassette-, CD- and iPod-melting radiation), then future civilisations would be forced to conclude that Hawaiian Album, Silk and Steel and Strictly Mantovani were the acme of this lost world's musical achievements."
- Travis Elborough, from his book The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from LP to IPod and Back Again.
Submitted by: Terry Labach
Sep. 20, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 22, 2011
"One in three Americans now weigh as much as, well, the other two."
- James Rhodes, pianist and columnist.
[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/jamesrhodes/100055785/in-britain-obese-children-are-allowed-to-wallow-in-their-misery-theres-a-name-for-that-child-abuse/]
Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Sep. 21, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 21, 2011
"Vi sælger til Irland. Her går det som varmt brød."
["We sell to Ireland. Here it goes like hot cakes."]
- Ole Schou, director of the world's largest sperm bank, Cryos. A glut of product has led his firm to reject new donations from redheaded men. However, their product is still in high demand in Ireland.
[http://ekstrabladet.dk/kup/sundhed/article1621030.ece]
[http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fekstrabladet.dk%2Fkup%2Fsundhed%2Farticle1621030.ece]
Submitted by: Terry Labach
Sep. 20, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 20, 2011
"Mr. Obama's defenders argue that he is the victim of reckless, nihilistic, obstructionist Republicans. There's some truth to that too, sort of. The Republicans have behaved very badly. (My suggestion for the GOP slogan in 2012: "Vote Republican. It's just too dangerous to have us in opposition.")"
- David Frum, in the National Post, August 9, 2011.
[http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/08/09/david-frum-obama-can-no-longer-play-the-victim/]
Submitted by: Z.D. Hora
Aug. 10, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 19, 2011
"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem."
- Woody Allen, quoted in a BBC commentary on "Why Pessimism is Good for Business".
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14768974]
Submitted by: Hora, Michael (MTC)
Sep. 7, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 18, 2011
"A sober attitude towards reality."
- Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950), writer, explaining why he drank.
Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Aug. 30, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 17, 2011
"...you should drink some red wine every day: it has relatively few calories and induces milder hangovers than other sources of alcohol, and it is thought to raise good cholesterol and reduce the bad kind, as well as protect arteries against cholesterol-related damage. Red wine is also usually consumed in the company of others, so it encourages human connection, a very powerful factor in maintaining health."
- Dr. Mehmet Oz, Time Magazine, September 6, 2011.
Submitted by: Dorene Smith
Sep. 14, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 16, 2011
"Corporations are people, my friend!"
- Mitt Romney, candidate for the U.S. Presidency, during a question session at the Iowa State Fair.
[http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/08/11/romney_corporations_are_people_my_friend_.html]
Submitted by: Bob Bruhin
Aug. 11, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 15, 2011
"It can't be anywhere above the Mull of Kintyre."
- Matthew Goode, actor, in an interview about his new film Burning Man, explaining how how full-frontal a shot of an unclothed man can be in film. The Mull of Kintyre is the tip of the Kintyre Peninsula in Scotland.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mull_of_Kintyre]
[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/tiff/interviews-and-features/down-and-dirty-sex-in-the-lineup-at-tiff-2011-makes-for-a-racy-festival/article2162678/page2/]
Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Sep. 13, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 14, 2011
"The only people who know what business Wall Street is in are the traders. They know what business Wall Street is in better than everyone else. To traders, whether day traders or high frequency or somewhere in between, Wall Street has nothing to do with creating capital for businesses, its original goal. Wall Street is a platform. It's a platform to be exploited by every technological and intellectual means possible."
- Mark Cuban, in a blog post May 9th, 2010, quoted in http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/daily-take/201108/did-mark-cuban-predict-market-crash
Submitted by: Jeff Copeland
Aug. 11, 2011
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The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List | Quotation of the Day for September 13, 2011
"We wished to go very far. Japan is too near. There is always the telegraph. The Pacific gives you at least two months free from news."
- John La Farge, artist, explaining why he was making a trip to the South Seas. Quoted in Romantic Paintings in America by James T. Soby and Dorothy C. Miller.
Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Aug. 30, 2011
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