Poetry Friday

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

~ Hilaire Belloc ~

It's Feeling

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

~ Bill Evans ~

Or, a Candy Bar?

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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

~ Galileo Galilei ~

Communication

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~

Not Only That--It Means You Get to Eat!

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

~ Jane Austen ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

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The cat is the mirror of his human's mind...the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance.

~ Winifred Carriere ~

I Like Her Attitude!

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

~ Sophia Loren ~



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Poetry Friday

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

~ Christina Rossetti ~





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Thanks!

Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader,...As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day.

~ Nora Roberts ~

Oooh, Poor Thomas Stearns

My name is only an anagram of toilets.

~ T.S. Eliot ~

Bridges

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The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

~ David Russell ~

R.I.P., Frank McCourt

University librarians poked me when I snored behind a stack of books. One librarian told me snoozing was strictly forbidden. She was kind enough to suggest that out in Washington Square Park there was no end of benches where I could stretch till the cops came. I thanked her and told her how I'd always admired librarians, not only for their mastery of the Dewey Decimal System, but for their helpfulness in other areas of daily living.

~ Frank McCourt ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

~ Wesley Bates ~



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It Smells Like Summer!

Photo by Rick Harris
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

~ Diane Ackerman ~

Poetry Friday

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

~ G. K. Chesterton ~





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Necessities

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

~ Harry S. Truman ~


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Enthusiasm Will Only Take You So Far

Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.

~ Egyptian proverb found on a temple in Luxor ~

Happy Bastille Day!

I cannot prevent the French from being French.

~ Charles de Gaulle ~

A Man With a Message

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Which is more beautiful--feline movement or feline stillness?

~ Elizabeth Hamilton ~






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Vacation

A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

~ Author unknown ~

Poetry Friday

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

~ W. H. Auden ~

And That's That!

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

~ Theodore Roosevelt ~

Happy Birthday, Anjelica Huston!

That's why actors can take on other lives, because I think basically, at the bottom of everything, they are terribly insecure people. They don't feel themselves to be bright and beautiful, or necessarily beloved. So they're always looking for it. And as long as they're looking for it, they work at their best capacity. So in that way, their insecurity feeds their talent.

~ Anjelica Huston ~

Don't Forget to Read This Summer!

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

~ Confucius ~

Diets

The main thing in weight loss is calories in versus calories out. People go on fad diets and think 'This one will be different,' but it never is and their weight rebounds and they move on to the next fad diet.

~ Judith Stern ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel.

~ Portuguese proverb ~


No one can accuse me of being a scoundrel! --KK

Happy Independence Day!

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

~ from the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 ~

Poetry Friday

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

~ James Russell Lowell ~

Unruly Kids

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

~ Erma Bombeck ~

What a Scary Thought!

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.

~ Winston Churchill ~