Quotation of the day for July 22, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for July 22, 2016 "As long as I've got my hands up, they're not going to shoot me. This is what I'm thinking. They're not going to shoot me. Wow, was I wrong." - Charles Kinsey, therapist, after being shot by a Miami police officer while working with a patient. [http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/man-shot-police-miami-charles-kinsey-1.3688753] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jul. 21, 2016

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Quotation of the day for July 14, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for July 14, 2016 "Experiencing art live with friends, with family, with people we love, is so rewarding that people are searching it out amidst the digital age, in which our faces are in our phones seemingly every other hour of the day." - Jeffrey Seller, lead producer of the Broadway hit "Hamilton". [http://www.recode.net/2016/7/11/12131342/hamilton-broadway-jeffrey-seller-bots-virtual-reality-theater] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 12, 2016

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Quotation of the day for July 13, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for July 13, 2016 "It is a thing, with all its accidents, that must be taken for granted, as, in a novel, or a biography, you take it for granted that the characters have their meals with some regularity." - Ford Madox Ford, from The Good Soldier. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jul. 12, 2016

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Quotation of the day for July 12, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for July 12, 2016 "As someone on the receiving end of conversations with people who do not know how to edit themselves, I can understand what agony means.... Business is no place for stream of consciousness babbling, no matter how colorful you might think you're being." - Donald Trump, businessman and politician, from his book, Think Like a Champion. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 11, 2016

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Quotation of the day for July 5, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for July 5, 2016 "From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free." - Jacques Cousteau, diver. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jul. 4, 2016

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Quotation of the day for July 4, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for July 4, 2016 "Boris Johnson, who in the judgment of naturalists is the only leading politician bred directly from Highland cattle, had been expected to declare himself a candidate for the Tory leadership. Boris, after all, was a booming voice in the Leave campaign, and he has long been both a marshal and a mascot of the right. He also enjoys a profile as high as anyone in the land; friend and foe alike refer to him by his first name--a distinction that he shares with Britney, Whitney, Dolly, Rihanna, and Oprah. The brand recognition is secure. And what does he do? He pulls out. A nation gasps--or, at any rate, those parts of the nation that have not tired of the political backstabbing and turned to milder pursuits." - Anthony Lane, on Boris Johnson's decision to not run for British Prime Minister. [http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/whats-up-with-the-u-k-a-handy-lexicon-of-exiting] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 30, 2016

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Quotation of the day for July 3, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for July 3, 2016 "A quick note on the first three tragedies. Firstly, it was the working classes who voted for us to leave because they were economically disregarded, and it is they who will suffer the most in the short term. They have merely swapped one distant and unreachable elite for another. "Secondly, the younger generation has lost the right to live and work in 27 other countries. We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied. Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles, and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of our predecessors. "Thirdly and perhaps most significantly, we now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Gove said, 'The British people are sick of experts,' he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of anti-intellectualism has led to anything other than bigotry?" - Nicholas Barrett, commenting on Britain's vote to exit from the European Union. [http://www.vox.com/2016/6/24/12023544/brexit-uk-young-voters] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Jun. 24, 2016

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Quotation of the day for July 2, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for July 2, 2016 Beach Haven ain't my home! I just can't pay this rent! My money's down the drain! And my soul is badly bent! Beach Haven looks like heaven Where no black ones come to roam! No, no, no! Old Man Trump! Old Beach Haven ain't my home! - Woody Guthrie, from his song Old Man Trump. He wrote the song about his one time-landlord, Fred Trump. Fred's son is the infamous businessman and politician, Donald Trump. [http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/25/woody-guthrie-sang-of-his-contempt-for-his-landlord-donald-trumps-father/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jun. 30, 2016

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Quotation of the day for July 1, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for July 1, 2016 "If we are going to ask people, in the form of our products, in the form of the things we make, to spend their heartbeats--if we are going to ask them to spend their heartbeats on us, on our ideas, how can we be sure, far more sure than we are now, that they spend those heartbeats wisely?" - Paul Ford, writer and software architect. [http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=6336] Submitted by: Nora Ishibashi Jun. 23, 2016

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