I Multi All the Time!

I went to my computer that night to escape thinking too much, or at least to force myself to think about things that didn't matter. See, when you're on the computer, you get really good at what they call multitasking, and usually the tasks you have to multi are so pointless you can have endless hours without a single useful thought. It's great.

~ Neal Shusterman from Antsy Does Time ~

Poetry Friday

I think more people should be reading it but maybe fewer people should be writing it, ...there's an abundance of unreadable poetry out there.

~ Billy Collins ~

Ouch!

American cities are like badger holes ringed with trash.

~ John Steinbeck ~

All You Need is Love

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~

Awards

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

~ Jesse Owens ~

Happy New Year!

A weasel comes to say "Happy New Year" to the chickens.

~ Chinese proverb ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cats also don't laugh out loud, but when a cat executes a prank successfully, it always seems pretty pleased about it.

~ Lynne Powell ~

I Think It Depends on What's Being Served

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

~ Dr. Seuss ~

Poetry Friday

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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

~ Boris Pasternak ~

Language Can be Tricky

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

~ Franklin P. Jones ~

Listen Up!

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Where words fail, music speaks.

~ Hans Christian Andersen ~

Today's a Day to Celebrate!

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives. I beg you to remember this, not merely for my sake, but for yours. I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. It is in order that each of you may have through this free government which we have enjoyed, an open field and a fair chance for your industry, enterprise and intelligence; that you may all have equal privileges in the race of life, with all its desirable human aspirations.

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

Happy Birthday, Dr. King!

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.

~ Nan Porter ~

Sleepwear

Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams.

~ Anonymous ~





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Poetry Friday--O, Yes!

O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.

~ Langston Hughes from
"Let America Be America Again" ~

All Writers Know This!

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

Memory

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

~ Barbara Kingsolver ~

Libraries--The Anti-Weapon

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

~ Carl T. Rowan ~

Here's One Heap It's Better to Be At the Bottom Of

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

~ Edward Gorey ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

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Cats don't like change without their consent.
~ Roger Caras ~

These Are the Only Two Choices?

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

~ Edith Wharton ~

Poetry Friday

isn't there always
a little more room
on the skin? It's too late

to be unwritten,
and I'm much too scrawled
to ever be erased.

~ Mark Doty from "My Tattoo" ~

The Fearsome Brussels Sprout

We kids feared many things in those days - werewolves, dentists, North Koreans, Sunday School--but they all paled in comparison with Brussels sprouts.

~ Dave Barry ~




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You Can Catch More Flies With Honey...

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

~ Billy Wilder ~

I Love This Quote

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

~ Helen Keller ~

Every Job Has Its Own Set of Skills

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.

~ Princess Margaret ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote--Just for the Picture!

When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?

~ George Carlin ~


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Sorry, I Couldn't Resist!

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

~ Kathleen Mifsud ~

Poetry Friday--Revision

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Happy New Year!

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

~ Benjamin Franklin ~