Thought for the week
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Sunday, 18 May 2008
Life has taught me that there are occasions when you should, and occasions that you shouldn't. Life has not yet taught me to distinguish between the two types of occasion.
-Douglas Adams, Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Sunday, 11 May 2008
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
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Sunday, 04 May 2008
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
-Georges Bracque
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Sunday, 27 April 2008
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
-Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Sunday, 20 April 2008
The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.
-Pierre Boulez
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Sunday, 13 April 2008
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
-Robert Browning
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Sunday, 06 April 2008
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
-Diane Ackerman
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Sunday, 30 March 2008
To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.
-Jack Handey
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Sunday, 23 March 2008
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
-Margaret Bourke-White
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Sunday, 16 March 2008
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference in tempo. The tree explodes
every spring.-Ezra Pound, 1937
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Sunday, 09 March 2008
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room
by people you wouldn't have in your home.-David Frost
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Sunday, 02 March 2008
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous, makes the sublime again.
-Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1795
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Sunday, 24 February 2008
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.-Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Comment
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Sunday, 17 February 2008
My music is best understood by children and animals.
-Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
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Sunday, 10 February 2008
Goats eating tin cans: Even goats draw the line somewhere; they will nibble
at practically anything, but they don't eat tin cans.-Tom Burnam, The Dictionary of Misinformation.
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Sunday, 03 February 2008
A guest always brings pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
-Portuguese proverb
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Sunday, 27 January 2008
I could never bear to be a politician. I couldn't bear to be right all the time.
-Sir Peter Ustinov, 1998
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Sunday, 20 January 2008
I'll give you my opinion of the human race… Their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
-William Somerset Maugham (1892 - 1965)
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Sunday, 13 January 2008
The foreman says, "You must have an intelligence test". The Irishman says, "All right." So the foreman says, "What's the difference between joist and girder?" And the Irishman says, " Joyce wrote Ulysses and Goethe wrote Faust.
-Dave Allen
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Sunday, 06 January 2008
I raise my hat
And lower it.
As I unwind
I slow a bit.
This life -
I make a go of it
But tick-tock time
I know of it.
Yes, tick-tock time
I know of it.
I fear the final
O of it.
But making
A brave show of it
I raise my hat
And lower it.-John Mole, Song of the Hat Raising Doll