I Suppose...

You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a "I know how that feels" kind of thing.

~ Richard Roxburgh ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

In the eyes of the mouse the cat is a lion.

~ Albanian proverb ~

Exactly!

The Web's only as good as our ability to ask questions of it. The ability to access information means nothing if you don't have an educated framework of knowledge to fit it into.

~ Susan Jacoby ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

~ Aristotle ~

My Sentiments, Exactly!

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

~ Jimi Hendrix ~

Do McCain and Obama Dance?

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

~ Moliere ~

Let's Not Forget

Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

Remember the Laborers

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

It's not the fleas of the dog that make the cat meow.

~ Chinese proverb ~


It's that the dog steals the cat's food!

Why?

Simply put, people don't always vote for the candidate or the policy that serves their own best interests. That concept should be no more surprising in politics than in other parts of people's lives. If individuals always did what was best for them, they would consistently choose broccoli over cake; they would enter into relationships with the good guy (or gal) instead of the charming jerk who never calls; they would stick to purchasing necessities and use credit cards as a last resort -- only when there's not enough money at the end of the month to pay for groceries or utility bills.

~ Heather Gehlert ~

What Does It Mean?

Words will not pollute the soup.

~ Brazilian proverb ~

How Sad is This?

This quote is from "Populism in the Age of Celebrity," an article that appeared in The Atlantic in June 1990. That was 18 years ago. Sadly, I don't think much has changed!

Raised on Sesame Street and now MTV--a celebration of commercials between rock videos that are themselves merely commercials for celebrities--we demand production values, not social values, in our politics.

~ Kirk Scharfenberg ~

Good Advice--Are You Listening Candidates?

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

~ Dorothy Sarnoff ~

Troubles

Troubles are like babies--they only grow by nursing.

~ Douglas Jerrold ~

Ya Gotta Love This Title

Sunday's Kat Kwote

By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle ~

Self Sufficiency

I believe in neither God nor the devil and I am not afraid.

~ Marilla M. Ricker ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry moves heaven and earth.
~ Japanese proverb ~

Fuzzy Math?

95% of this game is half mental.

~ Yogi Berra ~


Did you know there's a Yogi Berra Museum?

I'll Bet He Could See into the Future...

to today, 8/20/08, when BMX makes its debut as an Olympic event.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.

~ Mark Twain ~

Blessed Relief

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

~ T.S. Eliot ~

And the People at the Food Network are Eternally Grateful

Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.
~ Joseph Addison ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Flatterers, like cats, lick and then scratch.
~ German proverb ~

Have Courage!

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

~ Andre Gide ~

Poetry Friday

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my friend.

~ Marcus Valerius Martialis ~

Who Told Him We Could Be Owned?

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

~ W. C. Fields ~

Greetings from Maine!

Using a camera appeases the anxiety, which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

~ Susan Sontag ~

Amen, Sister!

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

~ Maya Angelou ~

Monday

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

~ Tom Wilson ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

photo by finna dat

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole
lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

~ Will Rogers ~

Planning

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

~ Chinese proverb ~

Poetry Friday

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay ~

Absolutely!

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

~Richard Dawkins~

It's Tomato Season!

photo by Zeetz Jones
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

~ Laurie Colwin ~

And This Fish is Going Where?

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

~ Lewis Carroll ~

Ouch!

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

~John LeCarre~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

~ Paula Poundstone ~

Dave Barry for President!

Q: Dave, how will the discovery of water on Mars affect your foreign policy decisions?

Submitted by Henry from NYC

A: I will have troops there on Day One.

Answered 08/01/08 09:27:52 by Dave Barry



You, too, can ask Dave the important questions about being our Commander-in-Chief. Click here.

Poetry Friday

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.

~ Anonymous ~

Easy for Him to Say!

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

~ Johann Sebastian Bach ~

The Appeal of the Unattainable

There are always pretty girls on every city street, but a man can't step out of the subway and watch the clouds playing with the top of Mount Ascutney. It's the unattainable that appeals, Next best to seeing the ocean or the hills or the woods is enjoying a painting of them.

~ Maxfield Parrish ~

Memoir Writing

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

~ Tom Robbins ~

A Great Example of Foreshadowing!

"NOW, my dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor."

~ Beatrix Potter from The Tale of Peter Rabbit ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them, are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

Good Idea!

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

~ Helen Keller ~

Poetry Friday--A Path to Freedom

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.

~ Bernard Berenson ~

Butterflies

Butterflies...not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

~ Elizabeth Goudge ~

Animated Films

The man responsible for the original "King Kong," Willis O'Brien, started experimenting with stop-action animated films for Thomas Edison in 1916 and 1917. A whole generation of special effects people grew up on these films.

~ Leonard Maltin ~

Picnics

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

~ Bill Vaughn ~

Dragonfly

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

~ Roger Caras ~

Rainbows

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.
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~ Douglas Pagels ~

Good Advice

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

~ Woodrow T. Wilson ~

And Really, Don't You Also Run the Risk of Getting Sand Up Your Nose?

An ostrich with its head in the sand is just as blind to opportunity as to disaster.

~ Anonymous ~

Art

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Neither Has Mine!

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age--and has never left!

~ Ginger Rogers ~

No Comment...

Since wearing a slip and a bra in Ed Wood I have much more respect for women.

~ Johnny Depp ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

~ Aldous Huxley ~

R.I.P.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things
to be seized.

~ U.S. Constitution ~

Poetry Friday

Photo by Dom Dada
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke from Letters to a Young Poet ~

May You Always Have a Full Pail!

To me, roaming along the shelves of a used book store is like searching for seashells along the beach,...Sometimes I leave the store with a full pail, other times I do not.

~ Michael Robertson ~

Ah....

I long to crowd the little garden, gain
Its sweetness in my hand and crush it small
And taste it in a moment, time and all!

~ Yvor Winters from Time and the Garden ~

There's Hope for Everyone!

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon ~

Believe in Something!

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

~ P.T. Barnum ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Kat bumpah stickah:

It's the Seeking That Counts

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

~ Andre Gide ~

Happy 4th of July!

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

Upon Her Release from 6 Years of Captivity

Peace must be made with the promise that there are no more kidnappings...

~ Ingrid Betancourt ~

The Belly-Button?

From High and Outside
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

~ Bill Lee ~

Flying Machines

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

~ Chuck Yeager ~