Lewis Carroll

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

~ Lewis Carroll ~

Never Tell a Lie--You May Starve to Death!

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

~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~

Viva Outrageousness!

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

~ Salvador Dali ~

Photo by Roger Higgins courtesy Library of Congress. Image altered by Diane Mayr.

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Everything comes to those who wait...except a cat.

~ Mario Andretti ~


Photo by Identity Photogr@phy

I Have to Agree

...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 economics.

~ Ariel Ramchandani ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

~ Joseph Roux ~

Photo by Jack Delano courtesy Library of Congress

Chicken Soup

Chickens can't speak well of their own soup.

~ Martiniquais proverb ~

Photo by fritish

As True Today As When It Was First Spoken

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

~ Orson Welles ~

Photo by Scary Cow

A Good Book

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 Walker ~

Martin Luther King Day

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

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

Photo by Roberto F.

Sunday's Kat Kwote

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

~ Harry Lorayne ~

Photo by Giara

What a Nice Way to Put It

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

Photo by *PaysImaginaire*

Poetry Friday

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 James ~

Winter Vitality

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

Only If It Was a Good Book!

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

~ Truman Capote ~

He Didn't Get His Wish

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't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."

~ Andy Warhol ~

Photo by Kevin Burgess

And Use It Well

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

~ Dorothea Lange ~

Photo by Lange courtesy Library of Congress

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk
And tendre flessh, and make his couche of silk

~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~




Image courtesy Visipix

The Judgment of Man

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man,
Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow...

~ Lewis J. Bates ~

Poetry Friday

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 Pruitt

Good or Bad?

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

~ Gary Weisenberger ~

Photo by grahamc99

Human Nature

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

~ George Eliot ~

Library of Congress

Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution. It seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions.

~ News from the Library of Congress ~

My favorite place to visit virtually! --KK

Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, courtesy Library of Congress

Keep Thinkin'

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 and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

~ Blaise Pascal ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Come, my fine cat, against my loving heart.

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

Happy New Year!

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 chicks57

Poetry Friday

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 like any flower on the bough.

~ Eleanor Farjeon from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard ~

Applause!

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 bloody drug. That’s the drug I’ve indulged in the most: applause. I can’t sit around the house as there’s no adulation to be had!

~ Tom Jones ~
Photo by cyberdees

Clamor of Tracks

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

~ Edward Hoagland ~


Photo by herzogbr

Famous Last Words...

Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble...

~ H.A. Rey from Curious George ~

Blizzard!

Blizzard

Origin:
1820–30, Americanism; earlier: violent blow, shot; cf. Brit. dial. (Midlands) blizzer, blizzom blaze, flash, anything that blinds momentarily; prob. expressive formations with components of blast, blaze, bluster, etc.

~ Dictionary.com ~

Photo by dalboz17

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Slowly, slowly,
You rise and stretch
In a glossiness of beautiful curves

~ Amy Lowell from "To Winky" ~





Photo by Martin Cathrae

Merry Christmas!

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

~ Erma Bombeck ~

Poetry Friday

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

...Deep Thinking

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

~ Diane Johnson ~

Self Knowledge

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

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Have Yourself a Tacky Little Christmas!

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime.

~ P.J. O'Rourke ~

Photo by Sterin

A Christmas Test

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 tangled Christmas tree lights.

~ Maya Angelou ~


Photo by shoothead

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Keep your whiskers crisp and clean.

                  ~ Nancy Willard ~



Photo by Picture Zealot

Make Music!

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

~ Truman Capote ~

Poetry Friday

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

Give a Child a Book This Season

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

~ Marcel Proust ~

Let It Shine!

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 run like hell to show it off.


~ Miranda Lambert from "Me and Charlie Talking" ~

Photo by B Rosen

Sewing: A Metaphor for Life

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 patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

It's Coming...

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

~ William Robert Spencer ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

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

~ Elizabeth Bishop from "Lullaby for the Cat" ~






Photo by hilali

There's the Rub...

~ Scottish proverb ~
Photo by Today Is a Good Day

Poetry Friday

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, children are pretty apt to like it too. I guess what it amounts to is that I never grew up.

~ Aileen Fisher ~

They Don't?

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

~ Fran Lebowitz ~
Photo by esti-

Sounds Like a Plan!

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'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?

~ Lyle Moraine from "Christmas Island" originally recorded by The Andrew Sisters ~

Comic Book Empowerment

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 Levitz ~

A Gentle Spirit

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 the old sense of the word--politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

~ Emma Thompson ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.

~ Matthew Arnold ~

Photo by JKönig

The Important Stuff

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

~ Robert Motherwell ~



Photo courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum

Poetry Friday

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

~ Robert Frost ~



I hope it's not fatal! --KK

Photo by Elizabeth Thomsen

Shopping

Image courtesy melvdesigns

At the Ministry of Stories

You'll be able to find the Ministry of Stories through a secret door inside the first shop in the world to supply the daily needs of monsters of all shapes and sizes.

~ Nick Hornby ~
Photo courtesy Ministry of Stories