Thought for the week

• Sunday, 25 July 2010

  We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.

  -J. G. Ballard

• Sunday, 18 July 2010

  The number of people that will not go to a show they don't want to see is unlimited.

  -Oscar Hammerstein

• Sunday, 11 July 2010

  What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

  -Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 – 1946)

• Sunday, 04 July 2010

  Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught.

  -Oscar Wilde

• Sunday, 27 June 2010

  It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

  -Ursula Le Guin

• Sunday, 20 June 2010

  I’ve never gotten over what they call stage-fright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.

  -Elvis Presley

• Sunday, 13 June 2010

  My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

  -Indira Gandhi

• Sunday, 06 June 2010

  Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.

  -Arthur Miller

• Sunday, 30 May 2010

  Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.

  -Alfred Hitchcock

• Sunday, 23 May 2010

  To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

  -Abraham Maslow

• Sunday, 16 May 2010

  The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  -Frank Lloyd Wright

• Sunday, 09 May 2010

  Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

  -Peter Ustinov

• Sunday, 02 May 2010

  If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

  -Dick Cavett

• Sunday, 25 April 2010

  I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows...

  -Susan B. Anthony

• Sunday, 18 April 2010

  If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

  -Steve Allen

• Sunday, 11 April 2010

  If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

  -Richard M. Nixon

• Sunday, 04 April 2010

  A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  -Winston Churchill

• Sunday, 28 March 2010

  This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.

  -George W. Bush

• Sunday, 21 March 2010

  The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved... loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  -Victor Hugo

• Sunday, 14 March 2010

  I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

  -Emily Dickinson