Thought for the week

• Sunday, 12 August 2007

  Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

  -George Bernard Shaw

• Sunday, 05 August 2007

  Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

  -Jonannes Brahms

• Sunday, 29 July 2007

  Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

  -Ray Knight

• Sunday, 22 July 2007

  I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs.

  -Albert Einstein

• Sunday, 15 July 2007

  We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

  -Stevie Wonder

• Sunday, 08 July 2007

  We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing!

  -George Bernard Shaw

• Sunday, 01 July 2007

  Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.

  -W. C. Fields

• Sunday, 24 June 2007

  I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.

  -Jack Handy

• Sunday, 17 June 2007

  Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

  -Sir Thomas Beecham

• Sunday, 10 June 2007

  I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

  -Fred Couples

• Sunday, 03 June 2007

  The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

  -Martin Esslin

• Sunday, 27 May 2007

  We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

  -Japanese Proverb?

• Sunday, 20 May 2007

  Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

  -Winnie the Pooh

• Sunday, 13 May 2007

  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  -Eleanor Roosevelt

• Sunday, 06 May 2007

  Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm.... One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

  -Andre Kostelanetz

• Sunday, 29 April 2007

  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  -Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

• Sunday, 22 April 2007

  Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves; we have botched and bungled our lives, and we cast the blame upon the "environment" or the "world," which have no tongues to utter a defense. The mature man accepts the natural limitations of life; he does not expect Providence to be prejudiced in his favor; he does not ask for loaded dice to play the game of life. He knows, with Carlyle, that there is no sense in vilifying the sun because it will not light our cigars. And perhaps, if we are clever enough to help it, the sun will even do that; and this vast neutral cosmos may turn out to be a pleasant place enough if we bring a little sunshine of our own to help it out. In truth, the world is neither with us or against us; it is but raw material in our hands, and can be heaven or hell according to what we are.

  -Will Durant

• Sunday, 15 April 2007

  The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

  -Albert Einstein

• Sunday, 08 April 2007

  We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.

  -Arthur O’Shaunesey

• Sunday, 01 April 2007

  The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, It is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

  -George Mallory