We Keep Waiting!

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

~ J.R.R. Tolkien ~

The Beast Is Within Us

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

~ W. C. Fields ~




Photo by Angela7Dreams

I Love This!

Art is the only proof we have of the existence of the soul.

~ Anonymous ~





If anyone knows who the author of this quote is, I would love to give him/her credit. --KK

Poetry Friday

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

~ John Ciardi ~

I Got a Kick Out of It, Too!

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

~ Jim Harrison ~

Remember, It's the Standing Up That Counts!

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
~ Japanese proverb ~

Some of the Best Writing Advice Ever

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.

~ Elmore Leonard ~

A Quote About Quotes

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

~ Orson Welles ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner.

~ Stephen Baker ~


Photo by Gattou/Lucie/..Hard to catch up! :o(

Let's Get It Done!

And in just a few days, a century-long struggle will culminate in a historic vote. We’ve had historic votes before. We had a historic vote to put Social Security in place to make sure that our elderly did not live out their golden years in poverty. We had a historic vote in civil rights to make sure that everybody was equal under the law. As messy as this process is, as frustrating as this process is, as ugly as this process can be, when we have faced such decisions in our past, this nation, time and time again, has chosen to extend its promise to more of its people.

~ President Barack Obama in a speech given March 19, 2010 ~

Image from www.whitehouse.gov

Poetry Friday

The most common Romantic reaction to avian sightings is jealousy. The poet envies the spiritual and imaginative liberation suggested by bird flight, and birdsong leaves him with the desire to sing as naturally and as beautifully in his own lyric.

~ Billy Collins from the introduction to Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds ~

You Mean We Do It to Ourselves?

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle ~

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

For the good are always the merry,
Save for an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle,
And the merry love to dance.

~ William Butler Yeats from "The Fiddler of Dooney" ~

Theft

When the thief has stolen from a thief, God laughs in heaven.

~ Armenian proverb ~

Poetry (Not on a Friday!)

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

~ Carl Sandburg ~







Photo by Bermudi

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I feel very peculiar. I feel like I've just got to bite a cat! I feel like if I don't bite a cat before sundown, I'll go crazy! But then I just take a deep breath and forget about it. That's what is known as real maturity.

~ Snoopy ~

Photo by Sarah Ross Photography

Growing Young

It takes a long time to become young.

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Image courtesy Michael Dawes

Poetry Friday

A "Western Haiku" need not concern itself with the seventeen syllables since Western languages cannot adapt themselves to the fluid syllabic Japanese. I propose that the "Western Haiku" simply say a lot in three short lines in any Western language.

~ Jack Kerouac ~

He Should Know...

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

~ Douglas MacArthur ~

Today We Honor the WASP With Congressional Gold Medals

...more than 25,000 American women applied for training, but only 1,830 were accepted and took the oath;

~ From Public Law 111-40 111th Congress ~

Image courtesy Women Airforce Service Pilots - Remembered by Those Who Knew Them

Congratulations Kathryn Bigelow

What’s next? Good question. I hope something soon. Actually, I’m working on a few things. Who knows what will finally materialize? But once you embark on a project that is both topical and relevant, I suppose it sets a new bar. So I’m definitely inclined toward that.

~ Kathryn Bigelow ~

Let's Live!

To live is to dance, to dance is to live.

~ Snoopy ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

~ Stephen Wright ~

Photo courtesy of Patrick Girouard Thanks, Patrick!

Start Stirring!

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

~ Edward Abbey ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry Out Loud’s ultimate test is the frightening ordeal of up front public performance, which goes far beyond accurate recollection, spoken or written, to embrace the arts of the orator and the actor. Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan were eloquent performers of poetry, for example, and so was the great French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, who won her first important audition by dramatically reciting the French national anthem.

~ Robert Oliphant ~

The Worst Kind of Ghost!

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

~ Frederic Chopin ~


Photo by Patrick f

Translation

Translation is at best an echo.

~ George Borrow ~

When the Majority Doesn't Rule

...before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

~ Harper Lee from To Kill a Mockingbird ~




Photo courtesy DML East Branch

Sage Advice

Don't look back when you are walking along the edge of a wall.

~ Chinese proverb ~

Photo by Christopher Chan

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.

~ French proverb ~

A True Story

41 hours without internet, and I've lived to tell the tale!

~ KK ~

State Of Emergency Declared After Violent Storm
Power Restoration Could Take Days, Officials Say

Poetry Friday

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

~ Robert Frost from "Desert Places" ~

Figure Skating

Figure skating is an amazing ride. It takes you from feeling like the lowest scum in the pond, like two hours ago. And now I feel like a flower growing out of the pond.

~ Johnny Weir ~

Photo from Vancouver2010

Tricky...

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

~ Henry A. Wallace ~

Is To!

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.

~ Charles Barkley ~


Photo by LeeLeFever

And Delightful to Hear It Told!

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

~ Emily Dickinson ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Q: Why are cats not mentioned in the bible?

What are these, chopped liver?

A: Because there is no need. The Bible is a guide for us humans, The word of God, and it is meant for us. Cats do not need to know how to get to heaven. Yes, they do mention other animals but not in the way one would think of mentioning a cat. Cats can be precious to us but they are not a necessity. The Bible is filled with things we should and need to know, it is a very important book and there is simply no reason for it to be mentioned in the Bible if it were then they would be mentioned.... hope that helps =)

Well..... maybe its because god hates cats.

~ from Answers.com/WikiAnswers ~

"Daniel in the Lion's Den" by Peter Paul Rubens at the National Gallery of Art

Theater is Alive and Well! Too Bad It's Killing Us!

Politicians do corporate bidding and stage hollow acts of political theater to keep the fiction of the democratic state alive.

~ Chris Hedges ~

Poetry Friday

children
when they ask you
why your mama so funny
say
she is a poet
she don't have no sense.

~ Lucille Clifton from "Admonitions" ~

Upon Opening Tut's Tomb

The first impression suggested the property-room of an opera of a vanished civilization. Our sensations were bewildering and full of strange emotion. We questioned one another as to the meaning of it all. Was it a tomb or merely a cache? A sealed doorway between the two sentinel statues proved there was more beyond, and with the numerous cartouches bearing the name of TutAnkhAmun on most of the objects before us, there was little doubt that there behind was the grave of that Pharaoh.

~ Harold Carter ~

A Common Thread

America is not like a blanket--one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt--many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

~ Jesse Jackson ~


Photo by californiaAmy

Let's Be Friends!

There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.

~ Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts character, Lucy ~

Photo by cacaobug

Happy President's Day!

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

~ George Washington ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

I know a little language of my cat, though Dante says
that animals have no need of speech and Nature
abhors the superfluous. My cat is fluent.

~ Robert Duncan from "A Little Language" ~

My cats speak the language of Valentine's Day! --KK

Still Fifteen Days of It Left

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch ~

Photo by Svenstorm

Poetry Friday

Photo by Robert Goodier

Always Be Willing!

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Romance Novels

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

~ Benjamin Disraeli ~

A Bowl?

Bring me a bowl of coffee before I turn into a goat.

~ Johann Sebastian Bach ~

Photo by cursedthing

Cream-Like?

Image courtesy of kristykay22

Sunday's Kat Kwote

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

~ English proverb ~

Be Kind

...I am kinder as a person, more alert to the feelings of others. I can use my wit liberally, but am more careful with it now. I'm more aware of the fragility of life, and want to make sure that the last word anyone hears from me is kind. Being smart is not special; being kind is. Everything has been a gift.

~ Roger Rosenblatt ~

from an interview on the Shelf Awareness site.

Poetry Friday

It may seem paradoxical to say that there are similarities between a poetical and a commercial mind, but it is a fact that both a poet and a businessman are constantly dealing with problems that are directly related to people and for which sensitivity is of prime importance.

~ M.C. Escher ~

Magic!

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

~ Vincent Canby ~



Photo by apdk

It Must Be Nice...

On our way to the restaurant, they took us past their future home, an oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach that they bought last year for $17.4 million and are now in the midst of renovating. "There’s my little cottage," Patterson said as the 20,000-square-foot house came into view.

~ Jonathan Mahler from "James Patterson Inc." ~

Something You Can Depend On

That's one nice thing about carrousels, they always play the same songs.

~ J.D. Salinger from The Catcher in the Rye ~

And If You're Under the Age of 65, You've Probably Made One for Someone

There are all kinds of mix tapes. There is always a reason to make one.

~ Rob Sheffield ~