Heed Her Words!

The prevailing culture tells us that nothing succeeds like excess, that working 80 hours a week is better than working 70, that being plugged in 24/7 is expected, and that sleeping less and multi-tasking more are an express elevator to the top...Indeed, the truth is the exact opposite. It turns out people are not only happier--they are also much more productive if they are able to get away from work, and renew their passion and focus.

~ Arianna Huffington ~

Poetry Friday

Photo by Lawrence OP
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

So Make Sure the Title's a Good One!

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

~ Virginia Woolf ~

Some Days I Have to Agree!

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

Happy Paczki Day!

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This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit.

~ Homer Simpson ~

Another Reason to See "Slumdog Millionaire"

The essence of the film which is about optimism and the power of hope in the lives, and all my life I had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I'm here.

~ A.R. Rahman from his acceptance speech for "Best Song"
at last night's Academy Awards ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

More animals here!

I agree! --KK

Make Them Feel Good!

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

~ Maya Angelou ~

Poetry Friday

Business does not exist in the world of poetry, and therefore by implication it has become everything that poetry is not—a world without imagination, enlightenment, or perception. It is the universe from which poetry is trying to escape.

~ Dana Gioia ~

Let It Shine!

Humor is the sunshine of the mind.

~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~

I've Got My Fingers Crossed

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

~ John Naisbitt ~

Scary!

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

A Thought for Presidents' Day

My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

To err is human, to purr feline.
~ Robert Byrne ~

Happy Valentine's Day!

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

Poetry Friday

Photo by Leo Reynolds


Always be a poet, even in prose.

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

Excellent advice--if only it were that easy! --KK

On This the 200th Anniversary of His Birth

O Memory! thou midway world
‘Twixt earth and paradise,
Where things decayed and loved ones lost
In dreamy shadows rise

~ Abraham Lincoln from "My Childhood’s Home I See Again"~

To see a copy of the poem in Lincoln's handwriting, click here.

A Promise

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

~ Nelson A. Rockefeller ~

Evolution

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

~ Milton Berle ~

Life and Jazz Have a Lot in Common

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

~ Charles Darwin ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

No heaven will not ever Heaven be; unless my cats are there to welcome me.

~ Scottish proverb ~

He's Not Just a Pretty Face

Photo by Martin de Witte



Sometimes we do dumb things...We use fear to attack civil liberties.

~ George Clooney ~

Poetry Friday

Tasteful composition, either of prose or poetry, which faithfully contrasted the realities of eternity with the unstable and fickle fortunes of time, made a strong impression on his mind.

~ Lawrence Weldon speaking of Abraham Lincoln ~

Read!

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

~ Thomas Carlyle ~

Nothing Less!

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

~ Susan B. Anthony ~

Advertising

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

~ Bill Cosby ~

Change

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

~ Washington Irving ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by Natasha Lloyd
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

~ Albert Einstein ~

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

Photo by tealchic
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!

Photo by Epiclectic

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 ~





Photo by Debras Closet

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

Photo by Ack Ook

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 ~




Photo by docman

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 ~

New Year's Eve Advice

Photo by David Zellaby
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

~ Dean Martin ~

Waste Not, Want Not

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

~ Steve Allen ~

Photo by Drunken Monkey

Maybe If You Use a Flashlight...

Photo by bunchofpants
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

~ Groucho Marx ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The true soul is the one that flickers in the eyes
Of an animal, like a cat that lifts its head and yawns
And stares at you, and then goes back to sleep.

~ John Koethe from "Chester" ~