Quotation of the day for August 30, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for August 30, 2015 "Yet on Thursday morning, when I discovered that the Oxford Dictionary was going to include "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" in this year's crop of new phrases, alongside such glorious contributions to the vernacular as "butthurt," "mic drop," "awesomesauce" and "manspreading," I felt an overwhelming surge of pride. Part of that is attributable to ego: I'm a freelance writer who lives in his in-laws' basement so the idea that a silly idea I came up with eight years while writing about a silly movie would acquire so much cultural currency that the freaking Oxford Dictionary would consider it worthy of entering its official lexicon is incredibly flattering and surreal." - Nathan Rabin, on his contribution to the English language. [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/how-i-got-manic-pixie-dream-girl-into-the-oxford-dictionary/article26143595/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Aug. 29, 2015

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Quotation of the day for August 19, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for August 19, 2015 "To use it is to teeter on the edge of a conversational wormhole." - Martha Gill, writing about the newly-expanded definition of "literally". [http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/13/literally-broken-english-language-definition] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Jul. 28, 2015

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Quotation of the day for August 18, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for August 18, 2015 "I'm a medical oncologist not a political commentator, so I have nothing to say particularly about his path to the presidency, although his visibility, popularity, notoriety is increasingly involved in commentary by my friends and colleagues about the commonness of our names, which I would hasten to point out my dad had first. I was Donald Trump, named after my father Donald Trump, so this side of the Trump relation had it well before Donald J. Trump." - Dr. Donald L. Trump, an oncologist and cancer institute executive of no relation to Donald J. Trump. [http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/meet-the-other-guy-named-donald-trump] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Aug. 12, 2015

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Quotation of the day for August 15, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for August 15, 2015 "We don't question or yell or scream at them or say, 'You're stupid for buying an alligator, let alone 150 of them." - Bry Loyst, founder of the Indian River Reptile Zoo, on taking possession of 150 crocodiles and alligators from a Toronto couple [http://news.nationalpost.com/toronto/it-took-more-than-20-volunteers-and-four-days-to-rescue-150-crocodiles-and-alligators-from-a-toronto-home] Submitted by: Dana Weeks Aug. 14, 2015

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Quotation of the day for August 11, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for August 11, 2015 "Hippies did not invent smoking marijuana. That's a complete misreading of history. It was blues musicians....It was jazz musicians." - Big Rude Jake, jazz musician, in performance at the Kitchener Blues Festival, Aug. 9, 2015. Submitted by: Terry Labach Aug. 10, 2015

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Quotation of the day for August 7, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for August 7, 2015 "We were told by legal authorities that we could torture people." - Alvin Bernard "Buzzy" Krongard, CIA's executive director from 2001 to 2004, on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program. Krongard made the statement in a 2015 BBC interview. [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33739480] Submitted by: Rob Wood Aug. 6, 2015

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Quotation of the day for August 6, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for August 6, 2015 "The one-way honor system is when individual workers profess having an intense work ethic that also involves loyalty or identifying with the employers. Many people that I interviewed said that they give "150 percent, or 100 percent, or 125 percent," so the individual is pledging themselves as a statement of personal character. They're saying, "I'm a good person, see how much I identify with work and can be relied on." "On the other hand, for the last 30 years or so, employers have been pulling away from making any similar pledge. And there's no blame for employers -- even people who had been laid off said it's not the company's job to worry about workers, they have to be lean and mean in a tough economy. Americans appear to have entirely capitulated to the model of the high-performance company that doesn't owe anything to workers aside from, as one woman that I interviewed said, "a paycheck and some respect."" - Allison Pugh, sociology professor and author of "The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity." [http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865633375/Job-insecurity-is-the-new-normal-Heres-how-its-affecting-your-family-life.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Aug. 4, 2015

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Quotation of the day for August 5, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for August 5, 2015 "I asked Apple Music to explain the calculation of royalties for the trial period. They said they disclosed that only to copyright owners (that is, the labels). I have my own label and own the copyright on some of my albums, but when I turned to my distributor, the response was, "You can't see the deal, but you could have your lawyer call our lawyer and we might answer some questions."" - David Byrne, musician, from his essay "Open the Music Industry's Black Box." [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/open-the-music-industrys-black-box.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Aug. 4, 2015

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