The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is...

Once upon a time there lived a king who was deeply in love with a princess, but she could not marry anyone, because she was under an enc...

It's an universal law--intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatie...

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, a...

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. ~ Frank Stella ~ "View of the Grand Gallery of the Louvre...

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same...

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ~ Ingrid Bergman ~

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course. ~ Bobby Flay ~ ...

There was, nevertheless, some sweetness diffused over that face, but it was the sweetness of a cat or a judge, an affected, treacherous swe...

If it is our freedom and joy they seek to destroy, give them not that victory. Against the forces of darkness and terror, love and compassi...

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. ~ William Butler Yeats ~ Photo co...

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent ...

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will ...

Sulley: Hey, Mike, this might sound crazy but I don't think that kid's dangerous. Mike: Really? Well, in that case, let's...

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of u...

No kwote today, just an informative little cat breed video!

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ Thornton Wilder ~ Photo sourc...

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~ James Fenton ~

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ~ Walt Disney ~ Business...

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell ~

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it. ~ Anthony Hopkins ~

It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good exa...

~ From The Book of Nonsense (1870), written and illustrated by Edward Lear ~

I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to d...

Cognitive science now suggests that humans are actually hard-wired to respond to the sort of patterned speech that verse represents. Like t...

Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids--not because it's genetic but because they can create a home environment and sensory s...

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." T...

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, ...

I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, hi...

Halloween is rapidly approaching! [You'd be hard-pressed to find a worse Halloween rhyme than this one! --KK] Photo courtesy ript...

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all,...

Sometimes I think all the best poems have been written already, and no one has time to read them, so why try to write more? ~ Lin...

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you sus...

I've always taken The Wizard of Oz very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life t...

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula. ~ Bela Lugosi ~ Photo courtesy Wikipedia .

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish--whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a ...

Biting and clawing is a form of "love mauling." The more pain they deal out, the more they are trying to tell you that they ...

...great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them. ~ Meriwether Lewis ~...

...in poetry our motives are utterly similar to those who made cave paintings or petroglyphs... ~ Jim Harrison ~

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old wh...

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. ~ Edith Wharton ~ Poster courtesy Library of Congress .

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult han...

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people ...

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If there is one thing that my brother’s collection has taught me, it is that guns outlive their owners. These hundreds of millions of guns w...

Poetry is sort of me looking for myself. ~ Chastity Hale ~

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. ~ James Joyce ~

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoth...

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is s...

Veterinarians have long known the benefits of adding a little canned pumpkin to a pet's diet regularly. ~ Carol McConnell ~ "M...

The only business protected from government by our Constitution is the media--their right of free speech based in the First Amendment. Just ...

~ From The Book of Nonsense (1870), written and illustrated by Edward Lear ~

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining i...

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and...

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius ~

Why should pirates be any different from regular cat owners? Cats will walk the plank only if they WANT to. Bliss by Harry Bliss, © 201...

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain ~ Photo courtesy Wikimedia .

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of the...

The only thing better than singing is more singing. ~ Ella Fitzgerald ~

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. ~ Arnold Lobel ~ Illustration from St. Nicholas Magazine (187...

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. ~ Madeleine L'Engle ~

No longer ought we to be called upon to be particeps criminis with men to the extent of being compelled to pay taxes which are largely used ...