Quotation of the day for February 28, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 28, 2014 "I like to play golf. I like to cut my own grass. I do drink red wine. I smoke cigarettes and I'm not giving that up to be President of the United States." - John Boehner, U.S. House Speaker, on being asked by Jay Leno if he had any plans to run for president. [http://www.motherjones.com/mojo?page=11&page%3D1673=] Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 28, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find John Boehner at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find John Boehner at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 27, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 27, 2014 "We reserve the right to refuse service to Arizona legislators." - Rocco DiGrazia, owner of Rocco's Little Chicago Pizzeria in Tuscon Arizona, from a sign in his restaurant window. DiGrazia posted the sign after Arizona legislators passed a bizarre bill that would allow businesses to refuse service to customers based on sexual orientation. [http://azstarnet.com/news/local/rocco-s-takes-a-stand-against-arizona-legislators/article_81e48280-3224-50be-aa05-6d0607be5c85.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Feb. 27, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find Arizona at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find Arizona at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 26, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 26, 2014 "The late John Greenwood, Q.C, who served as Ontario's Assistant Deputy Attorney General in the late 1970s, had a signature line he used to deliver with a straight face. "Anybody can convict the guilty,' he'd say to visitors to his office, "the trick is to convict the innocent.' People laughed uneasily, sensing it may not be entirely a joke." - George Jonas, writing about John Greenwood in the National Post. [http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/12/05/george-jonas-nigel-wrights-view-of-ottawa/] Submitted by: Z.D. Hora Dec. 5, 2013

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find innocent at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find innocent at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 25, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 25, 2014 "Instead, we moved down the road to a decrepit shack selling the vintages of the Krasnodar region. Neil Davidson of Canadian Press called it "The Wines of Mordor". "Far too many nights refused to die at The Wines of Mordor. The jet lag never really let go of any of us. Seven times here - SEVEN! - I performed what is known in the business as a wraparound. I got up from the bar and went straight to breakfast. I will require long-term hospitalization when I get home." - Cathal Kelly, on covering the Sochi Olympics. [http://www.thestar.com/sports/sochi2014/2014/02/23/sochi_olympics_provide_chilling_glimpses_of_everyday_life_for_russians_kelly.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 24, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find Sochi Olympics at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find Sochi Olympics at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 24, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 24, 2014 The paramedic thinks i'm clever cos i play guitar I think she's clever cos she stops people dying - Courtney Barnett, from her song Avant Gardener. [http://courtneybarnett.com.au/lyrics/] Submitted by: John Karabaic Feb. 16, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find Courtney Barnett at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find Courtney Barnett at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 23, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 23, 2014 "A girl in Maryland promised to send me naked pictures of herself, if I wrote a song for her. I wrote it in one day. Hey! Where are those pictures at!!" - Guy Davis, bluesman, from the liner notes for his song Going Back To Silver Spring, recorded on his album Sweetheart Like You. Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 19, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find Guy Davis at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find Guy Davis at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 22, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 22, 2014 "I grew up in Carmel, smack in the middle of the new code region; my first cell phone number-the only cell phone number I have ever had-bears that 831 preface. I have held on to those three digits through happily-multiple changes of location (New Jersey, New York, Boston, Washington) and through unhappily-multiple losses of handset. The powers that be-hardware salespeople, cell service representatives-have, at one time or another, tried to force me into a 609 and a 917 and a 617; each time, I have resisted. Because I am not, fundamentally, a 609 or a 917 or a 617. I am not even, my current residence notwithstanding, a 202. I am an 831, wherever I may be in body, and will remain an 831 until they pry those three otherwise totally meaningless digits out of my cold, dead iPhone." - Megan Garber, writing about telephone area codes. [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/our-numbered-days-the-evolution-of-the-area-code/283803/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 18, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find area codes at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find area codes at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 21, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 21, 2014 "But, whether the attention come by grace of genius or by dint of will, the longer one does attend to a topic the more mastery of it one has. And the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will." - William James, from The Principles of Psychology (1890). Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 14, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find William James at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find William James at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 20, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 20, 2014 "At long last, the government has conceded that plaintiff poses no threat to air safety or national security and should never have been placed on the no-fly list. She got there by human error within the FBI. This too is conceded. This was no minor human error but an error with palpable impact, leading to the humiliation, cuffing, and incarceration of an innocent and incapacitated air traveler. That it was human error may seem hard to accept - the FBI agent filled out the nomination form in a way exactly opposite from the instructions on the form, a bureaucratic analogy to a surgeon amputating the wrong digit - human error, yes, but of considerable consequence." - William Alsup, U.S. District Judge, in a ruling on Rahinah Ibrahim, who was mistakenly placed on the U.S. no-fly list. Her attempts at redress were systematically blocked by government officials. [http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-coverup/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 13, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find no-fly list at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find no-fly list at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 19, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 19, 2014 As an unimportant clerk Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK On a pink official form. - W. H. Auden, from the poem The Fall of Rome. Submitted by: Rob Wood Feb. 10, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find W. H. Auden at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find W. H. Auden at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 18, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 18, 2014 "If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind. The warrior longs to communicate that all of us have access to our basic goodness and that genuine freedom comes from going beyond labels and projections, beyond bias and prejudice, and taking care of each other." - Pema Chodron [http://quotes.justdharma.com/unfettered-mind/] Submitted by: Rob Wood Feb. 10, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find Pema Chodron at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find Pema Chodron at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 15, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 15, 2014 If reading books was money If spinning records was investing If drinking was consulting Baby, we'd be rich - Old Man Luedecke, from his song Baby, We'd Be Rich. [http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Old-Man-Luedecke] Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 7, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find Old Man Luedecke at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find Old Man Luedecke at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 14, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 14, 2014 "Whereas 'serious' art, which is not primarily about getting money out of you, is more apt to make you uncomfortable, or to force you to work hard to access its pleasures, the same way that in real life true pleasure is usually a by-product of hard work and discomfort. So it's hard for an art audience, especially a young one that's been raised to expect art to be 100 percent pleasurable and to make that pleasure effortless, to read and appreciate serious fiction. That's not good. The problem isn't that today's readership is 'dumb', I don't think. Just that TV and the commercial-art culture's trained it to be sort of lazy and childish in its expectations. But it makes trying to engage today's readers both imaginatively and intellectually unprecedentedly hard." - David Foster Wallace, from a 1993 interview. Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 10, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find David Foster Wallace at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find David Foster Wallace at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 13, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 13, 2014 "...our faith that our work offers non-material rewards, and is more integral to our identity than a "regular" job would be, makes us ideal employees when the goal of management is to extract our labor's maximum value at minimum cost." - Sarah Brouillette [http://nonsite.org/article/academic-labor-the-aesthetics-of-management-and-the-promise-of-autonomous-work] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Feb. 11, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find work at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find work at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 12, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 12, 2014 "Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work." - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian, responding to the question "How do you deal with writers [sic] block?" in a reddit chat. [http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld_here_i_will_give_you_an_answer/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 11, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find Jerry Seinfeld at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find Jerry Seinfeld at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 11, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 11, 2014 "I operate under the principle that my computer is owned by at least three governments." - Costin Raiu, computer security researcher [http://threatpost.com/the-internet-is-broken-act-accordingly/104141] Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 10, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find Edward Snowden at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find Edward Snowden at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store

Quotation of the day for February 10, 2014

The Quotation Of The Day Mailing List

Quotation of the Day for February 10, 2014 "And then, because this always happens, the litany of my failures rushed into the vacuum left by all that speeding time, except that now, at 60, those faults seemed especially irreversible: not enough money, no visible retirement possibilities, no lush vacation home, no novels or plays or Broadway musicals or HBO series written, no fast cars - the usual roster of regrets. Plus, all the moments I could have been more human, and less afraid. And in the place of those lost accomplishments, just the clock ticking on the wall, making its sound, which as Tennessee Williams said, is loss, loss, loss. "This is the problem with turning 60: It's so goddamn melodramatic." - Ian Brown, on turning 60. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/adjusting-to-turning-60-with-a-little-help-from-some-facebook-friends/article16757435/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Feb. 10, 2014

Follow us on Twitter to see what we're reading Visit our blog

Find Ian Brown at Amazon.ca. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.ca store

Find Ian Brown at Amazon.com. Please support qotd by shopping at our Amazon.com store