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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 8, 2011 7:50:31 GMT -5
Rudi Gernreich was born at Vienna, Austria on Aug 8th in 1922, at sixteen he fled the Nazis and settled in Los Angeles. He had a brief career as a dancer before turning to fashion, where he made a name for himself with modern, futuristic design. He designed the first knitted tube dress, was first to dress women in men's suits and hats, invented the soft "no bra" bra, and released the first designer jeans. Mostly he's remembered for designs that exposed a great deal of skin, showing the first topless bathing suit and later the first thong bikini.
QUOTES:
"We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin." - Andre Berthiaume
"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizens' skin." - Gloria Steinem, American feminist
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?" - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist (1474 - 1564)
"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." - Samuel Ullman
"Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense." - Kin Hubbard (aka Frank McKinney), 1868 - 1930
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed befor the new one can come." - Joseph Campbell, 1904 - 1987
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 9, 2011 14:30:41 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college." --Lillian Smith, writer & social critic (1897-1966) Quote of the Day: "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." --Voltaire, French philosopher(1694-1778)
Quote of the Moment: "Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains - except kill it." --Erich Fromm, philosopher & psychologist (1900-1980)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 9, 2011 17:42:16 GMT -5
John Dryden was born at Aldwincle, Northamptonshire, England on August 9th in 1631, the eldest of fourteen children. He attended Westminster School and then Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked for Cromwell's Secretary of State. With the end of the Puritan Protectorate and the coronation of Charles II he blossomed, first as a poet but also writing plays, dramatic criticisms, essays, and translating classics into English. His output and influence was such that the period is known as the Age of Dryden.
Quotes from John Dryden, 1631 - 1700
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Dead men tell no tales.
Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 10, 2011 8:52:55 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig." --George Santayana, Spanish-born philosopher (1863-1952)
Quote of the Day: "When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them." --Rodney Dangerfield, comedian (1921-2004)
Quote of the Moment: "As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything keep it." --Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader (1869-1948)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 11, 2011 9:25:24 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "Journalism is literature in a hurry." --Anonymous English poet.
Quote of the Day: "Hell is paved with good Samaritans." --William M. Holden (1814-1893)
Quote of the Moment: "The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." --J. P. Morgan, financier (1837-1913)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 11, 2011 10:14:18 GMT -5
QUOTES OF THE DAY: August is National Inventors' Month, set aside to celebrate those whose work has made our work and life better by coming up with new stuff. Ever since Plato's comment in the fourth century BC, wits have commented on what spawned the urge to invent.
Quotes:
Necessity, who is the mother of invention. - Plato
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie, 1890 - 1976
Getting caught is the mother of invention. - Robert Byrne
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. - Roger von Oech
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. - Alfred North Whitehead, 1861 - 1947
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. - Carolyn Wells, 1862 - 1942
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Post by piropo2 on Aug 12, 2011 3:02:55 GMT -5
"Life might not always be the party you expected but you might as well dance while you are here!" I like this one Peg
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 12, 2011 10:55:59 GMT -5
pip- -I agree. It's a good one. Thanks.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 12, 2011 11:06:32 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." --Joseph Campbell, mythologist (1904-1987)
Quote of the Day: "People will buy anything that is one to a customer." --Sinclair Lewis, Nobel laureate novelist (1885-1951)
Quote of the Moment: "The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do." --Leontyne Price, operatic soprano (b. 1927)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 13, 2011 8:51:14 GMT -5
Edith Hamilton was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana on August 12th in 1867. Homeschooled by her parents, she learned French from her mother, German from the housekeeper, and from her father, Latin at age seven and Greek at eight. It was ancient Greece that she fell in love with, she wrote a number of books on the myths of Greece and Rome. She apparently got it right, several of her books on mythology are still in print.
QUOTES: All from Edith Hamilton, 1867 - 1963
All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet.
Men are not made for safe havens. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people, as no historical reconstruction can.
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth, and that which enables him to die for the truth.
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought."
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 13, 2011 9:41:03 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out,/ And to whom I was like to give offence." --Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) from "Mending Wall"
Quote of the Day: "Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course." --Mary H. Waldrip, author (b. 1949)
Quote of the Moment: "Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters." --Dr. Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 14, 2011 10:09:48 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "Home is any four walls that enclose the right person." --Helen Rowland, writer, journalist, humorist (1876-1950)
Quote of the Day: "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-the-last mistake." --Savielly Tartakower, Russian-born French chess grandmaster (1877-1956)
Quote of the Moment: "The fact that an opinion has been wiely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." --Bertrand Russell, British philosopher (1872-1970)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 15, 2011 14:03:29 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me how to live." --Alexander Herzen, Russian author (1812-1870)
Quote of the Day: "Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it." --Anonymous.
Quote of the Moment: "Achievement brings its own anticlimax." --Dame Agatha Christie, mystery author (1890-1976)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 16, 2011 9:06:50 GMT -5
QUOTES OF THE DAY
Alfred Hitchcock was born at London on August 13th in 1899. He left school at 14, working in a telegraph office until 1920 when he took a job designing title cards for Famous Players-Lasky. He took the chance to work at any other bit of filmmaking he could, and by 1927 directed his first film. He directed the first "talkie" in England before moving to Hollywood. Although he never won an Oscar for best director, his first US movie (Rebecca) won for best picture. He married his assistant, Alma Reville, in 1926, they worked, cooked, and stayed together until his death.
Quotes: Cinema is life with the dull bits cut out.
There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 16, 2011 9:50:47 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time." --Elbert Hubbard, writer (1856-1915)
Quote of the Day: "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." --John Cage, composer (1912-1992)
Quote of the Moment: "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." --Albert Schweitzer, medical humanitarian (1875-1965)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 17, 2011 12:10:28 GMT -5
QUOTES OF THE DAY
Gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek near Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada on August 16th in 1896, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush. As with most such discoveries, great wealth was found. Not by miners, of course, but by those who sold them tents, shovels, and bacon. In fact it's likely that the city of Seattle became what it is based on money made equipping miners on their way to the gold fields. It motivated a lot of folks to chase after a glittering dream, the "city" wasn't much more than a dream either. Within two years the population was 40,000, by 1902 it was under 5,000, and now it's about 2,000.
Quotes:
When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. - Barbara Bloom
That fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which, therefore, the true value cannot be assigned. - Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BC - AD 65
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. - Marjorie Holmes, 1910 - 2002
Tragedy is like strong acid: It dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. - D. H. Lawrence, 1885 - 1930
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. - Fidel Castro
Thought of the Day: "It is not love that is blind, but jealousy." --Lawrence Durrell, English-born author (1912-1990)
Quote of the Day: "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." --Gen. Douglas MacArthur, US Army (1880-1934)
Quote of the Moment: "A mind once stretched by a new idea never regais its original dimension." --Oliver Wendell Holmes, US Supreme Court justice (1841-1935)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 18, 2011 12:56:47 GMT -5
QUOTES OF THE DAY:
On Aug 18th in 1883 Pope Leo XIII opened the Vatican archives to scholars outside the Roman Catholic church for the first time, revealing unique documents, artifacts, and great works of art that had been hidden from view for centuries. In his announcement he said, “The first law of history is not to dare to utter falsehood; the second is not to fear to speak the truth.”
Quotes on History: The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more. - Isaac Asimov, 1920 - 1992
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture. - Learned Hand, 1872 - 1961
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. - Walter Bagehot, 1826 - 1877
History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. - Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825 - 1895
To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. - David McCullough
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. - Aldous Huxley, 1894 - 1963
Quotes for Today:
Thought of the Day: "Memory is more indelible than ink." --Anita Loos, playwright (1888-1981)
Quote of the Day: "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the for of inert facts." --Henry (Brooks) Adams, author (1838-1918)
Quote of the Moment: "A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world." --Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams & 2nd first lady(1744-1818)
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Post by Coldwarrior on Aug 18, 2011 13:46:22 GMT -5
What is "frippery"?
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Post by Forever Sunshine on Aug 18, 2011 13:52:57 GMT -5
frip·per·y (frp-r) n. pl. frip·per·ies 1. Pretentious, showy finery. 2. Pretentious elegance; ostentation. 3. Something trivial or nonessential.
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Post by Coldwarrior on Aug 18, 2011 14:01:15 GMT -5
OH. that Dolly was a hoot. Wasn't she?
Whoops, I should have said Abigail. Come to think of it, she married John Adams. What does she know about frippery?
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