Quotation of the day for May 31, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 31, 2015 "Well, put it like this. If we'd gone up for Britain's Got Talent, I don't we'd have made it past the audition stage. We weren't terribly good." - Nick Mason, drummer from Pink Floyd, on the band's abilities in their early days. He was speaking in May 2015 at the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the band's founding. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 29, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 30, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 30, 2015 "For sure, most occupations in the West have drifted far away from the baseline of biological self-preservation. A job simply grants us access to man-made vouchers we call money. We then redeem these so we can then purchase life. How many vouchers we obtain and what we have to do to get them is the political question par excellence under neoliberal capitalism." - Peter Fleming [http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32829232] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 26, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 29, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 29, 2015 "Here's what I wanted to ask Marse Robert: "Oh, why didn't you ramble? After all these years in New Orleans, haven't you learned that everybody owes it to himself, and to those around him, to ramble some?" I don't mean screw around, I mean loosen up. I associate Lee with my father, who was honorable, who was self-sacrificially community-minded, who rarely took a drink, who died when he was sixty, three years younger than I am now. My mother was already worrying about his heart when he was only forty-nine. I wish my father had laisser le bon temps rouler more often. With me, for instance. But he was a child of hard times." - Roy Blount, Jr., from his 2005 book, Feet on the Street: Rambles around New Orleans. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 28, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 27, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 27, 2015 "How anybody gets drunk enough to act this way is one of several fun Javelina mysteries to keep you entertained. Fresh or frozen, the margaritas have a slight chemical taste that I was thankful for because it tended to keep my own alcohol intake to near-Mormon levels. I also stayed alert and sober when faced with the Tijuana Manhattan, made with tequila in the place of whiskey and served in a rocks glass with no ice at all, even though it was the temperature of a freshly killed snake. While bartenders elsewhere have become insufferable bores on the subjects of ice and proper shaking techniques, the ones at Javelina are refreshingly free of such pretension. Even the water is sometimes served at room temperature." - Pete Wells, in his New York Times review of the restaurant Javelina. [The entire review is well worth a read. -eds.] [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/dining/restaurant-review-javelina-in-gramercy-park.html?_r=0] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 25, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 26, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 26, 2015 Don't fool with no Facebook, no twitters and tweets. Call me on the phone if you want to talk to me. I'm old-school, I'm old-school, old-school I'm old-school, Yeah, call me on the phone telephone as high-tech as I get. Now don't send me no e-mail, send me a female. - Elvin Bishop, from his song Old School. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsFNSl-zceI] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 22, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 25, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 25, 2015 "You've got to have open flames. It adds to the whole tropical feel of the place." - Michael Brady, on the importance of backyard tiki torches. [http://www.seattletimes.com/life/lifestyle/fire-up-the-outdoor-lights/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 25, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 24, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 24, 2015 "Just had my first marriage proposal of the election campaign. He had to settle for a poster for now." - Nancy Platts, Labour Candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven in the 2015 British election, tweeting from the campaign trail on May 4. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 23, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 22, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 22, 2015 "There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now, and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged." - Rand Paul, Kentucky senator, in a marathon speech protesting the U.S. Patriot Act on May 20, 2015. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/21/408417139/sen-rand-paul-stages-filibuster-to-protest-patriot-act] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 22, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 21, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 21, 2015 "I would sit on the street corner and just start singing gospel songs, because that's what I wanted to do. And, generally, people would come by me, and they would -- you know, they would praise me, pat me on the shoulders and the head, and say, keep it up, son. If you continue, you're going to be good one day. But they didn't put nothing in the hat. "But people that would come by and ask me to play a blues would always put something in the hat. Now you know why I'm a blues singer." - B.B. King, blues musician, from an interview with Jeffrey Brown. King died May 14, 2015, at the age of 89. [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/blues-life-legendary-musician-b-b-king/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 21, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 15, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 15, 2015 "We'd have ended up speaking English, instead of what we do speak." - Charlie Childress, New Orleans tour guide, suggesting how things might have turned out differently in Louisiana if the British had won the Battle of New Orleans. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 15, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 10, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 10, 2015 "Freedom is way better than I thought." - Omar Khadr, former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, on being released on bail. [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/omar-khadr-free-on-bail-vows-to-prove-he-is-a-good-person-1.3065692] Submitted by: Rob Wood May 8, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 9, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 9, 2015 "Sometimes there are very good reasons to be intolerant. The act in question may be destructive of its victim, it may also destroy the actor himself, and it may dangerously undermine the society in which it is being carried out. Any of these reasons may justify the refusal to tolerate some activity or development going on in the society around us. Meekness and complicity in the face of some acts of evil imply anything but enlightenment. These may be better described as cowardice or indifference, a failure of moral nerve. Therefore, indiscriminate tolerance not only falls short of perfection, it may collude in the perpetuation of some form of evil." - Dale Wright, The Six Perfections: Buddhism and the Cultivation of Character. Submitted by: Peg Syverson Apr. 24, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 6, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 6, 2015 "I think we might have made a little bit of history tonight." - Rachel Notley, leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party, on defeating the Progressive Conservatives in the May 5, 2015 provincial election. The PCs had been in office for 44 years straight. [http://www.cbc.ca/news/elections/alberta-votes/alberta-election-2015-results-ndp-wave-sweeps-across-province-in-historic-win-1.3062605] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 6, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 5, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 5, 2015 "He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once, and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone." - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 4, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 2, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 2, 2015 The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. - Marge Piercy, from the poem To be of use. Submitted by: Rob Wood Apr. 29, 2015

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Quotation of the day for May 1, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for May 1, 2015 "By shifting their attention from the conditions of labor to the laborer's frame of mind, ...ideologues could acclaim the value of any work, however monotonous." - T.J. Jackson Lears, in his history of the Progressive era, No Place of Grace. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 29, 2015

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