A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is...

When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance? ~ William Butler Yeats from "The Cat and the Moon" ~ ~ Photo by fofura...

Everyone likes pie. But people like pie a la mode even better. In the pie of life, arts is the ice cream. ~ Peter Krause ~ I like plain old ...

now i write poetry in my free time but that's difficult because words don't appear like a dog when you call their name, no, poetry i...

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ~ Alfred Hitchcock ~ Photo by BAMCAT

I can't go back to yesterday--because I was a different person then. ~ Lewis Carroll ~

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. ~ Salvador Dali ~ Photo by Roger Higgins court...

Everything comes to those who wait...except a cat. ~ Mario Andretti ~ Photo by Identity Photogr@phy

...feelings and language play too big a part in our lives to not be used when considering the world around us—even something so dismal as ec...

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ~ Joseph Roux ~ Photo by Jack Delano courtesy Library of Congress

Chickens can't speak well of their own soup. ~ Martiniquais proverb ~ Photo by fritish

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. ~ Orson Welles ~ Photo by Scary Cow

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book... ~ Alice W...

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ~ Martin Luther ...

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. ~ Harry Lorayne ~ ...

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~ Pho...

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~ William ...

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead. ~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull ~ Photo by withrow

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. ~ Truman Capote ~

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn...

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. ~ Dorothea Lange ~ Photo by Lange courtesy Library of Congr...

Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk And tendre flessh, and make his couche of silk ~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~ Image courtesy Visipix

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow... ~ Lewis J. Bates ~

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin ~ Photo by D. Sharon P...

For thousands of years we used natural materials for everything. We've only been "modern" for a few hundred years. ~ Gary Weis...

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. ~ George Eliot ~

Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution. It seeks to spark imagination and creativity a...

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you...

Come, my fine cat, against my loving heart. ~ Charles Baudelaire ~

It says (if you can't read it): I think of you to-day And wish you well, And in the coming year May every gladness dwell. Image courtesy...

It is as good an hour for song and dance as any other, and I will make a tune for a sunny May evening, and you shall sway among the grasses ...

I take people on a musical journey while getting kicks myself and I’m loving it! When you get that reaction from the audience, it’s like a b...

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. ~ Edward Hoagland ~ Photo by herzog...

Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble... ~ H.A. Rey from Curious George ~

Blizzard Origin: 1820–30, Americanism ; earlier: violent blow, shot; cf. Brit. dial. (Midlands) blizzer , blizzom blaze, flash, anything t...

Slowly, slowly, You rise and stretch In a glossiness of beautiful curves ~ Amy Lowell from "To Winky" ~ Photo by Martin Cathrae

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~ Erma Bombeck ~

I also dance on stilts... ~ Martin Steingesser ~ Photo by -foxhusky-

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. ~ Diane Johnson ~

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. ~ P.J. O'Rourke ~ Photo by Sterin

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangle...

Keep your whiskers crisp and clean.                    ~ Nancy Willard ~ Photo by Picture Zealot

To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. ~ Truman Capote ~

Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. ~ Gustave Flaubert ~

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ~ Marcel Proust ~

So you treat your love like a firefly, like it only gets to shine for a little while. Catch it in a mason jar, with holes in the top, and ru...

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that--one stitch at a time taken pati...

Be merry all, be merry all, With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball, To welcome merry Christmas. ~ William ...

Joy and Love will both be yours,    Minnow, don't be glum. Happy days are coming soon--    Sleep and let them come... ~ Elizabeth Bishop...

~ Scottish proverb ~ Photo by Today Is a Good Day

Fortunately I remember pretty well what I used to like to read, think about, and do. I find, even today, that if I write something I like, c...

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the le...

Let's get away from sleigh bells, let's get away from snow Let's make a break some Christmas, Dear, I know the place to go How...

It’s a natural human reaction to dream of what it would be to being empowered, to be able to solve things that you can’t otherwise. ~ Paul L...

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in t...

Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat. ~ Matthew Arnold ~ Photo by...