Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ~ John Steinbeck ~ Photo by Ric...

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being ...

Cats come and go without ever leaving. ~ Martha Curtis ~ Photo by Ian Southwell .

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff. ~ Tony Hillerman ~

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. ~ Eugene Ionesco ~ \ Photo by Philippe Alès courtesy Wikimedia .

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. ~ George Washington Carver ~ Photo courtesy Library of Congress .

I nearly forgot to post today! So this one is for me! --KK Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. ...

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. ~ Ray Bradbury ~ Image courtesy NASA .

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They ...

The beauty of the cat is very deceptive, for under the grace of the furry exterior lie concealed steel-like muscles. ~ Carl Van Vechten ~...

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed mil...

Well, don’t you think there comes a time when everyone, not just a poet, wants to get beyond the Self? To reach, if you like, the "g...

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ Antoine...

Q: Where does a pirate play ball? A: In the backyaaaaarrd! Illustration courtesy openclipart .

"And let me say here, I know that no one escaped alive from our vessel except myself and those that were taken by the man-of-war. And t...

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to ...

Crazy Cat Lady Approved. Found at Archie McPhee & Co.

...when your aim is to conduct a responsive and responsible foreign policy, the avoidance of stupid things is often the avoidance of bloodsh...

A bad poem is full of English literature. ~ William Carlos Williams ~

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Photo courtesy Library of Co...

If I were Queen of the World, I would decree that all students be given the gifts of time and books they want to read throughout their scho...

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business--everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if yo...

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and n...

The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend. ~ Spanish proverb ~ [And I have the scars to prove it! --KK] Photo by Finn Frode .

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re ...

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ~ Plutarch ~

Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so--it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the E...

Q. What do you call a chicken crossing the road? A. Poultry in motion. ~ Unknown ~ Photo by feeb .

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer ~ Illustration courtesy op...

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social dise...

The yellow tom-cat, sunk in shifting fur, Changes and dreams, a phosphorescent blur. ~ Yvor Winters from "Sonnet to the Moon" ...

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; t...

My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read. ~ Mary Oliver ~ Photo by moirabot .

Every great film should seem new every time you see it. ~ Roger Ebert ~ Photo courtesy NY Daily News .

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the fami...

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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. ~ Ray Bradbury ~ Photo from RayBradbury.com/ .

If you are going to learn from other writers don't only read the great ones, because if you do that you'll get so filled with despai...

I am so aching to write The I could make a song out of a chess-board And rhyme the intrigues of knights and bishops And the hollow fate ...

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there. ~ Bruno Mars ~ Photo by Grant Palmer .

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience i...

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. ~ Angela Carter ~

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation. ~ George ...

The painter and his cats were inseparable and his Minette was always by his side. Sometimes she would sit upon his knees while kittens per...

Gray economy workers are at risk for low self-esteem, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and depression. Authors of a recent study in Michi...

I unexpectedly came across this on Tuesday and thought, "What a great quote for the Poetry Friday ending to a Kurious Kitty week of res...

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the e...

Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text...

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. ~ Anthony Bourdain ~ [Note: the best film about a ...

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously se...

Your purr sounds like the blowing of feathers in a wind; It is a strangely comfortable sound, And there is no other, For the night smile...

Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. ~ Elizabeth Berry ~

If we care about the deepest aspirations of men and women across every community and culture, language and race, then poetry is always rele...

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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewi...

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small wo...

The word panino [pa'ni:no] is Italian for "small bread roll"; its plural form is panini. The word is the diminutive form of p...

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the mo...

The American economy no longer exists to support a thriving middle class, or to help the weakest among us attain a livable wage for an hone...

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~ Emily Dickinson ~

After nearly five years of uninterrupted and heavy fighting underground, today you will carry your arms in the open in order to free your co...

That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody lo...

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would...

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~ Jeannette Rankin ~ Photo courtesy Library of Congress .