Sunday's Kat Kwote

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

~ Robert Heinlein ~

Right-Brained People Have a Definite Advantage

Life isn't about finding yourself--life is about creating yourself.

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

No Matter What It's Called, There's a Whole Lot of It Goin' On

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.

~ Cynthia Nelms ~

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you a life full of sweets! --KK

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

With Undivided Attention

The first duty of love is to listen.

~ Paul Tillich ~

Getting Ready!

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

~ Andy Rooney ~

The Theory of Relativity

How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.

~ Anonymous ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Sufferin' succotash!

~ Sylvester ~






Succotash is a stew of corn, lima beans, and tomatoes.

Happy Birthday, Abigail!

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

~ Abigail Adams ~

Abigail was born on this day in 1744.

Poetry Friday

The commonplace, the tawdry, the sordid all have their poetic uses if the imagination can lighten them.

~ William Carlos Williams ~

Don't You Just Love a Friend?

A Chinese bookseller, 1908

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

~ Chinese proverb ~

Two Ways of Getting There

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

~ Clive Bell ~

Something to Think About This Time of Year

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

A Guinness Record Better Off Forgotten

The longest title of a book is 1,433 characters (290 words) and was written by Davide Ciliberti (Italy) in July 2007. The book describes the idiosyncrasies of the PR world. The full title is "Per favore dite a mia madre che faccio il pubblicitario lei pensa che sono un pierre e che quindi regalo manciate di free entry e consumazioni gratis a chi mi pare, rido coi vips, i calciatori le veline e le giornaliste, leggo Novella e mi fotografano i paparazzi, entro neI privé saltando la coda, bevo senza pagare, sono ghiotto di tartine e gin tonic, ho la casa piena di oggetti di design, conosco Paris Hilton, Tom Ford ed Emilio"

~ Guinness World Records ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat.

~ Jules Renard ~

Half Way Through the Month Already!

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.

~ Robert Burns ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

~ Percy Shelley ~

On Writing

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand--a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods--or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

~ Willa Cather ~

Natural Beauty

photo © Antonello Michele Mastinu for openphoto.net

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

~ David Attenborough ~

Why Do We Never Learn?

When the days of rejoicing are over,
When the flags are stowed safely away,
They will dream of another wild "War to End Wars"
And another wild Armistice day.

~ Robert Graves ~

So, How Many Do You Need?

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.



~ D.H. Lawrence ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

www.catsforobama.com

Pigs

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

~ Winston Churchill ~

Poetry Friday

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy ~

A Time to Celebrate!

Photo BBC News
Altogether shout it now.
There's no one
Who can doubt it now.
So let's tell the world about it now
Happy days are here again.

~ from "Happy Days Are Here Again" music and lyrics by J. Yellen and M. Ager ~

On This Glorious Day!

It's the morning after the election of our new president, Barack Obama, and I think this is an appropriate quote:

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

~ Woodrow T. Wilson ~

Too Bad He Wasn't Around for 2008!

What ass first let lose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Looking back over my 19 years (of it) I can recall few times when I have voted with anything approaching exhilaration.

~ Henry Louis Mencken ~

Waiting for Tomorrow

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

~ Samuel Johnson ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Smudge and Skippy--friends at last!
True Friendship is a plant of slow growth.

~ George Washington ~

What a Way to Live

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

~ Abraham Lincoln ~