Sure They Do...

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

~ G. K. Chesterton ~

Sage Advice!

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert from Eat, Pray, Love ~

YOU

We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

It's that simple--and that hard. And that inescapable.

~ Tom Peters ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Kittens can happen to anyone.

~ Paul Gallico ~





Photo by Terry Bain

Principle

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~




Photo by vawa_92

Poetry Friday

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

~ Paul Valery ~

There Are No Mistakes!

For me, problem solving is a normal part of the art-making process, regardless of the media used. If something happens that I don't like, a creative fix usually results in something better than if I hadn't taken that interesting detour.

~ Traci Bunkers from Print & Stamp Lab ~

O Music!

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

~ Benjamin Disraeli ~

Bookstore Cats

A bookstore cat is a shop's mascot and keeper, equally adept at charming customers and, when the lights go out, chasing away rodents. And so let us celebrate these furry souls--hopefully not an endangered species!--as more and more readers get their books delivered in shrink-wrapped packages from out-of-state corporate behemoths, or transmitted, in blips, to hand-held devices no cat would ever want to cuddle up to.

~ John McMurtrie ~

Pictures

Once when a lady was visiting the painter Matisse in his studio, she remarked 'But surely, the arm of this woman is much too long!' Matisse replied politely 'Madame, you are mistaken. This is not a woman; this is a picture.'

~ from Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford ~



Henri Matisse. Purple Robe and Anemones. 1937. The Baltimore Museum of Art.

Physical Books

To conceive of a world without physical books is to conceive of a world somehow diminished. It may be more efficient—yes, you can take a "stack" of books on vacation with an e-reader. It may spare quite a few forests from the pulpmaker’s ax. But efficiency is no substitute for pleasure. The future may be less cluttered. It may also be less fun.

~ Malcolm Jones ~

Poetry Friday

I lived between my heart and my head,
like a married couple who can't get along.

~ Edward Hirsch from "Self-portrait" ~

Twisted Logic

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.


~ Voltaire ~

Good Morning!

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

~ Leigh Hunt ~

Photo by Nomadic Lass

You Can't Scrimp on Education!

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

Dreams

LIBRARY
To dream that you are in a library, denotes that you will grow discontented with your environments and associations, and seek companionship in study and the exploration of ancient customs.

~ Gustavus H. Miller from 10,000 Dreams Interpreted ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

~ Robert Southey ~

Photo by karindalziel

Jump!

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.

~ Maya Angelou ~

Poetry Friday

It takes a courageous
person to leave spaces
empty

~ Kay Ryan from "Leaving Spaces" ~

I Love This One!

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

~ Stephen King ~

Flying

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.

~ Wilbur Wright ~

Toys

Toys are among the most important human artifacts. They are learning tools. By guiding play, they foster imagination, creativity, and critical thinking. They socialize us and teach fairness. They reveal what we believed and valued, encouraged and endorsed, dismissed and feared. They remind us of who we were, who we are, and who we hope to become. They help us imagine what’s next.

~ National Toy Hall of Fame ~

Caterpillar

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

~ George Carlin ~

Photo by Martin LaBar

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The cats went out to serenade
And on a banjo sweetly played;
And summer nights they climbed a tree
And sang, "My love, oh, come to me!"

~ Mother Goose ~

Photo by Sangudo

Walls of Books

While scouring design books, I find that I am always drawn to rooms where an entire wall is devoted to books. Books, quite obviously, give depth to a room, since they are one of the sure signs that someone with a pulse actually lives there, and the colors of the spines give a wall that random pattern that modern interiors so often lack.

~ Rita Konig ~

Poetry Friday

Yes, we can assess art. The doing of art, though, requires--paradoxically--a recklessness.

~ William Stafford ~

Green Cheese At That!

"Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese..."

~ from Wallace & Gromit A Grand Day Out ~

Folk Wisdom

A broken hand can work but a broken heart can't.

~ Afghan proverb ~

Superstition

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy manner of life.

~ Bertrand Russell ~

Weather the Storm

Just as the tumultuous chaos of a thunderstorm brings a nurturing rain that allows life to flourish, so too in human affairs time of advancement are preceded by time of disorder. Success comes to those who can weather the storm.

~from the I Ching ~

Photo by Chris Irmo

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cats are very sexy I think, too, in the way they move.

~ Antonio Banderas ~






Photo courtesy Abigail Guimond

Well, Duh!

Rocky:

Bullwinkle, you weigh 400 imaginary pounds.

Bullwinkle:

Yeah, but it's all moose-le.

Poetry Friday

An Historic Moment

The man said,
after inventing poetry,
"WOW!"
and did a full somersault.

~ William J. Harris ~

Moose

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. In fact, a moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

~ Bill Bryson ~

Photo by Aske Holst

A Bit of Truth to This...

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

~ Aldous Huxley ~

Like a String of Beads...

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Photo by cobalt123

The 'Burbs

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

~ Cyril Connolly ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

© Diane Mayr and Abigail Guimond, all rights reserved

Ah, Summer

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

~ Russell Baker ~




This image is from the Library of Congress--I love some of the stuff I come across when I just browse the photo collection. Imagine "bugg" hunting as part of summer's delights!

Poetry Friday

Pen--paper--vite!
They demand supplies...
Ah ohhh the engine in my head...




~ Eleanor Ross Taylor from "Welcome Eumenides" ~

Don't Be One of the Little People!

The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience-- they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

Except Maybe the Zucchini Duck

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

~ Will Rogers ~
Photo by Alex Gee

Coming Attractions

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Poor Guy!

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

~ Voltaire ~



Photo by Daniel Ivan

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Surprise

I lift the toilet seat
     as if it were the nest of a bird
and I see cat tracks
     all around the edge of the bowl.

~ Richard Brautigan ~





Photo by One From RM

Ideas

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

~ Victor Hugo ~

Poetry Friday

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

~ Thomas Hardy ~

He'd Never Be a Poet!

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

~ Galileo Galilei ~



Photo by jurvetson

How About In the Snow?

Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella.

~ Japanese proverb ~

Couponing

It does take a little time each week to clip the coupons and take them to the store. But just like earning money takes time, so does saving money.

~ Michelle Jones ~

Oh, my, how politically incorrect is that 1966 coupon? --KK

Image courtesy ZestDuz

Do You Think Anything Has Changed Since Twain's Time?

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

~ Mark Twain ~

Image courtesy riptheskull

Sunday's Kat Kwote

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

~ Groucho Marx ~




Image courtesy riptheskull

Picnic Season

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.

~ Bess Truman ~

Poetry Friday

I think there’s a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world.

~ W.S. Merwin ~

Image courtesy NASA

Sweet Dreams!

I know I’m gay and I should be proud of it, but in my life there is neither the right place nor the right time to come clean with it, and until then, what I read is going to be even more of an issue than ever. Going to the library is like entering a warzone as an enemy spy. Many experiences have taught me that someone is going to see the cover. How do I explain checking out a Regency romance or a Christopher Rice? As much as I love my library and my librarian for giving me the opportunity to check out these books in any way I can, it’s just not enough. I still have parents to deal with, school friends to watch, and a life to live...Gay or straight, a guy should be allowed to read whatever the hell he wants.

~ John at Dreaming in Books ~

Is the Trick to be Slowly Quick or Quickly Slow?

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson ~

I Can't Dispute This!

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

~ Frank Zappa ~

Spoken Like a True Party Animal

Hear no evil, speak no evil--and you'll never be invited to a party.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

the sun likes horses
but hates cats
that is why it makes hay
and heats tin roofs

~ Roger McGouch from "A Cat, a Horse and the Sun" ~

Cats don't give a sh*t whether the sun likes them or not! --KK

Photo by vieux bandit