Quotation of the day for April 29, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for April 29, 2016 "But if it weren't for Internet porn, I'm sure we would have finished Gone with the Mind a lot sooner. If it weren't for Internet porn, there'd be a cure for cancer, there'd be human photosynthesis, levitation, time travel, everything." - Mark Leyner, from his self-referential novel Gone with the Mind. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 28, 2016

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Quotation of the day for April 23, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for April 23, 2016 "All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you." - Prince, musician. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 22, 2016

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Quotation of the day for April 18, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for April 18, 2016 "What kind of country do we want to wake up to: one that spends billions on an impossible, impractical symbol of fear or one that smells like breakfast?" - John Oliver, comedian, on U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's promise to build a wall on the U.S./Mexican border. [http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-john-oliver-break-down-absurdity-of-trumps-border-wall-20160321] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Mar. 21, 2016

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Quotation of the day for April 17, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for April 17, 2016 "...I would have to learn to live in a different way, seeing death as an imposing itinerant visitor but knowing that even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living." - Paul Kalathini, in When Breath Becomes Air. Submitted by: Patsy Wang-Iverson Mar. 3, 2016

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Quotation of the day for April 16, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for April 16, 2016 "There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix 'Spanker'." - Christopher Hitchens Submitted by: Rob Wood Mar. 17, 2016

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Quotation of the day for April 13, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for April 13, 2016 "That’s not to say there’s not a lot of great stuff out there, but a lot of people are dissatisfied with it. A lot of journalists who want to do great stuff are dissatisfied. Advertisers and brands are dissatisfied. We're still stuck in some very naive thinking, with the idea that people consuming media means that's what they want - it's like, well, we put junk food in front of them and they ate that, so that must be what they want." - Ev Williams, co-founder and former chief executive of Twitter, on web media. [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/10/twitter-ev-williams-medium-content-fast-food] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 12, 2016

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Quotation of the day for April 12, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for April 12, 2016 "I saw something in the news, so I copied it. I put a piece of tape -- I have obviously a laptop, personal laptop -- I put a piece of tape over the camera. Because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera." - James Comey, FBI Director, admitting to taping over his webcam. [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/08/473548674/why-the-fbi-director-puts-tape-over-his-webcam] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 11, 2016

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Quotation of the day for April 10, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for April 10, 2016 "Mr. S's problem, if you could call it a problem, was that he was like a hyperkinetic kid. Today they'd give him Ritalin." - George Jacobs, valet to Frank Sinatra, in his memoir, Mr. S. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 8, 2016

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Quotation of the day for April 9, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for April 9, 2016 "To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 8, 2016

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Quotation of the day for April 6, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for April 6, 2016 "Perhaps most fascinating of all, though, the most peculiar and most valuable historically, are the two sessions recorded in Rome in April 1902 by Alessandro Moreschi, the last living castrato. Castrati, you may remember, are male sopranos whose testicles are removed before puberty to prevent the dropping of the range to baritone or bass. Not surprisingly, this once popular technique died out in the nineteenth century. The recordings of Moreschi, by then in his sixties, contain some of the most haunting and -- let's be honest -- frightening sung performances known to man. They have been reissued recently on CD. That the practice and tone of Italian solo singing can have changed so dramatically in under a century, so that what was then considered breathtakingly beautiful, subtle and stylish, should to our ears sound like an appalling caterwauling, as if the act of castration were actually being performed during the recording session, is a sobering warning for all musicians currently engaged in the re-creation and study of 'authentic' music performances." - Howard Goodall, musician, in his book Big Bangs. Submitted by: Terry Labach Apr. 5, 2016

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