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Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

~ Clare Boothe Luce ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Black cat or white cat: if it can catch mice, it's a good cat.

~ Chinese Proverb ~

Photo courtesy of Lucinda McQueen

Go Ahead and Laugh!

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

~ Charles Dickens ~

Mud Season is Here!

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

~ Charles Dudley Warner ~

I Agree, Absolutely

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

~ Ingrid Bergman ~

And This Long Primary Season Doesn't Make Things Any Easier!

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson ~

Older People Should Understand That, Too!

Young people should understand that there are no short cuts to a stronger body and that the best way to get faster and stronger is through good diet, nutrition and exercise.

~ Tommy Thompson ~

Uh, Is It Grape Juice Falling from the Sky?

If you know what I'm singing about up here
C'mon raise your hand

Purple rain Purple rain

~ Prince ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

~ Barbara Holland ~

Tick Tock

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

A Love/Hate Relationship

Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

~ Claude McKay from "America" ~

Culture

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

~ Matthew Arnold ~

About Bestsellers...

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

~ Anthony Burgess ~

Oscars

Every time an Oscar is given out,
an agent gets his wings.

~ Kathy Bates ~

It's Just a Matter of Time

The Disney industry has not yet attacked 'Hansel and Gretel'...

~ from The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

~ Theophile Gautier ~

This cat does not want to be friends!

It's National Pick-on-Dog Owners Day!

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing, right in your ear.

~ Dave Barry ~


I made up that holiday!--KK

Hope

Hope is a thing made only for people.
a scrap to hold onto
in darkness and in light.

~ from Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate ~

Ha! Just Try It with the Canard de Bain!

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"

~ George F. Will ~


If you enjoyed the picture of the giant duck, then check out the other works by the Dutch artist, Florentijn Hofman. I particularly like the "muskusrat."

Fresh Strength

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

Castro Steps Down

My elemental duty is not to cling to positions, much less to stand in the way of younger persons, but rather to contribute my own experience and ideas whose modest value comes from the exceptional era that I had the privilege of living in.

~ Fidel Castro ~

President's Day

It has been my experience that folks with no vices have few virtues.

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

Photo of Cassie courtesy of Lucinda McQueen

King Tut's Burial Chamber Was Opened on This Date in 1923

Dancing by the Nile,
Disco Tut, Tut
The ladies love his style.
Boss Tut, Tut
Rockin' for a mile,
Rockin' Tut, Tut
He ate a crocodile.

~ Steve Martin ~

On the Start of a Three-Day Weekend...

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
~ Sydney Pollack ~

I was born and raised in New York, and nearly every Saturday found me at the movies!

Yeah, Me, Too...

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen "While You Were Sleeping," like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

~ Jennifer Love Hewitt ~

Poor Girl, Imagine Making Her Wait in Weather Like We Had Today!

I need not go
Through sleet and snow
To where I know
She waits for me:
She will tarry there
Till I find it fair,
And have time to spare
From company.

~ Thomas Hardy ~

Money

If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to.
~ Dorothy Parker ~

Origami

from the Peabody Essex Museum
The most extreme violation of the Western separation of the medium from the message is to be found in an art-form like Japanese origami. Whereas Western art focuses upon the freedom to move images around on paper or canvas to create fixed patterns, origami ignores the separation between the image and the paper. The paper becomes part of the image, and is twisted and folded until it is the picture, not merely the surface on which it lies.

~ John D. Barrow ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

A dog is prose, a cat is a poem.

~ Jean Burden ~

Regrets

I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth--I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

~ Henry James ~

Chinese New Year

So exert ourselves to the utmost here tonight,
I still admire the exuberance of our youth!

~ Su Shi ~

It's Snowing Again...

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

~ Andy Goldsworthy ~

Tea with the Mad Hatter

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.

"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."

~ from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll~

Tea

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

~ C. S. Lewis ~

Dreaming

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

~ Marcel Proust ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

~ Dan Greenberg ~

Happy Groundhog's Day!

Don't you think the nation is ready for an official female groundhog?

~ Jan Kruse, an Massachusetts Audubon spokeswoman ~

To learn more click here.

Listening

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force.

~ Brenda Ueland ~



I suppose that can be be turned around when eavesdropping is involved!

Following in the Tradition of Yogi Berra...

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

~ Bill Peterson, football coach ~

Brrrr!

A library is thought in cold storage.

~ Herbert Samuel ~

I Can Relate!

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

~ John Updike ~

She Doesn't Mince Words...

The person, be it gentleman or lady,
who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

~ Jane Austen ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

~ Martha Stewart ~

Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

~Robert Frost ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

~ Carl Sandburg ~

Amen!

A home without books is a body without soul.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~

Eat Your Broccoli

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

~ George H.W. Bush ~

OMG!

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

~ George W. Bush ~

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

"It is a VERY inconvenient habit of kittens," said Alice, "that whatever you say to them, they always purr."

~ Lewis Carroll ~

Why Does Political Polling Immediately Pop into My Head?

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

Still We Love to Dance

We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

~ Robert Frost ~

I Think There's Something to be Said for Plain and Boring!

People have passion. It runs through all we do – who we love, what we do for a living, how we worship and how we spend our free time. So, why, when our lives are so full of passion, do funerals – events designed to celebrate a life - have to be so plain and boring?

~ from the webpage of Eternal Images designers of "brand name funerary products" ~

Ouch!

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

~ H. L. Mencken ~

What Every Children's Writer Hopes For

The 2008 Newbery Medal winner!

When a book is named a Newbery winner, it means that probably every public library in the nation, and most schools in the nation, will have a copy of this book. Plus, it will be one that will be gifted to children everywhere. It will be discussed, and it will probably never go out of print...

~ Barbara Barstow ~

Snow Day!

Notice the big snowman "thumbs up!"
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

~ John Ruskin ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

~ Eleanor Farjeon ~



More funny pictures

Sitting at Home Suits Me Fine!

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

~ Ogden Nash ~

Truth

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.

~ Emily Dickinson ~

I Love That Smell!

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Okey dokey

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

~ Pythagoras ~

Monopoly Anyone?

Board games do not discriminate based on gender, or age for that matter. Board games have greater appeal across generations than video games.

~ Kevin Howley, Assistant professor of communications, arts and sciences at DePauw University ~

See, It Works!

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

~ John Linder ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

indoor cat
chasing a squirrel
window to window

~ Larry Rungren ~



Many thanks to Larry Rungren for permission to use his haiku.

Today, with Temps in the 40's, You Might be Able to Get Away with It!

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

~ John Dryden ~

Don't Forget to Vote on Tuesday!

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson ~