Thought for the week

• Sunday, 12 July 2009

  Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

• Sunday, 05 July 2009

  I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  -Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

• Sunday, 28 June 2009

  The best stuff is always closest to the shit.

  -Roger Glover

• Sunday, 21 June 2009

  From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

  -Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

• Sunday, 14 June 2009

  Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.

  -Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music"

• Sunday, 07 June 2009

  Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

  -Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

• Sunday, 31 May 2009

  The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  -Salvador Dali

• Sunday, 24 May 2009

  ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.

  -Alan Alda

• Sunday, 17 May 2009

  Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

  -William safire

• Sunday, 10 May 2009

  Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They‘re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the staus-quo. You can qhote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  -Apple Computer

• Sunday, 03 May 2009

  I yam what I yam and that’s what I yam.

  -Popeye the Sailorman

• Sunday, 26 April 2009

  Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

  -Oscar Wilde

• Sunday, 19 April 2009

  A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  -Douglas Adams

• Sunday, 12 April 2009

  We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  -Oscar Wilde

• Sunday, 05 April 2009

  Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

  -Bertolt Brecht

• Sunday, 29 March 2009

  This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, in its place is something that you left behind - let it be something good.

  -Mahatma Gandhi

• Sunday, 22 March 2009

  Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

  -Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boat" on his television show, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."

• Sunday, 15 March 2009

  Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

  -Luciano Pavarotti (1935 - 2007)

• Sunday, 08 March 2009

  I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

  -Anne Wilson Schaef

• Sunday, 01 March 2009

  Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at TV. They had ""loneliness"" and knew what to do with it. They knew that was when the creative mood in them would work."

  -Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)