moxie
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Post by moxie on Sept 19, 2011 18:24:55 GMT -5
"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."
~Anonymous
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 20, 2011 14:31:57 GMT -5
Quotes for Today Sofia Villani Scicolone was born at Rome on this day in 1934, her mother a music teacher and aspiring actress. Despite having two daughters, her father refused to marry which left the family in dependent on family for shelter. At fourteen, Sofia entered a beauty contest and was among the finalists, two years later she came to the attention of film producer Carlo Ponti, 22 years her senior. They married in 1957, the union was annulled in 1962 so Conti could finalize his divorce, then rewed in 1966; they had two sons and remained married until Conti's death in 2007. After that first beauty contest she won small parts in Italian films as Sofia Lazzaro, adopting Sophia Loren starting with La Favorita in 1952. From 1950 to date she has appeared in over ninety films, winning over fifty awards including two Oscars and seven Golden Globes. Hard working, talented, and gorgeous, she's also insightful and witty. QUOTES: "Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one."
"Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — "piccoli segreti" — that are simmering on the burners."
"I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself."
"If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful."
"The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television."
"I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you." All from Sophia Loren
Thought of the Day: "There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste." --Johann von Goethe, German writer (1749-1832)
Quote of the Day: "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault." --Henry Kissinger, 56th Secretary of State (b. 1923)
Quote of the Moment: "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." --Edith Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 20, 2011 14:33:15 GMT -5
;DNow, ain't that the truth!!
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 21, 2011 14:47:12 GMT -5
Quotes of the Day On Sept. 21st in 1970 The New York Times introduced a new element in newspapers, the "Op Ed" page. It would be the page opposite the official editorial page, a place for commentary from voices not officially affiliated with the newspaper. It turns out that this page is, in most papers, marked by better-crafted writing than the rest of the paper; whether I agree with the sentiments expressed or not I consistently turn to this page for that reason alone. It is the home of well-reasoned Opinion. QUOTES: "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
"The understanding that underlies the right decision grows out of the clash and conflict of opinions and out of the serious consideration of competing alternatives." - Peter Drucker, 1909 - 2005
"In frank expression of conflicting opinion lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action; and in suppression lies ordinarily the greatest peril." - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 1856 - 1941
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill, 1806 - 1873
"The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately." - Bertrand Russell, 1872 - 1970
"I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742 - 1799
Thought of the Day: "It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." --J. K. Rowling, author (b. 1965)
Quote of the Day: "Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor." --Laurence J. Peter, author (1919-1988)
Quote of the Moment: "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimatd his ability." --Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright (1854-1900)
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 22, 2011 11:09:57 GMT -5
QUOTES OF THE DAY Philip Dormer Stanhope was born at London on Sept 21st in 1617. After graduation from Trinity Hall, Cambridge he left for the Grand Tour of Europe but returned to a position in the court of George I when Queen Anne died and soon took a seat in Parliament. At the end of his maiden speech he was reminded by a senior member that he was liable for a large fine for speaking before he had reached his majority, he returned to France and collected information for the crown until he came of age. Despite his oratory in both houses of Parliament and his skill in diplomacy, he is best remembered for Letters to his Son, a collection of advice he sent as letters to his illegitimate son. QUOTES: "Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
"Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so."
"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."
"Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them."
"Ridicule is the best test of truth." All from Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1694 - 1773
Thought of the Day: "If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind." --John Stuart Mill, English philospher (1908-1873)
Quote of the Day: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death." --Joan D. Vinge in Catspaw.
Quote of the Moment: "A well-spent day brings a happy sleep." --Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance polymath (1452-1519)
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Post by weezybear on Sept 23, 2011 11:27:04 GMT -5
There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you happy. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. Being alive is a gift, being happy is by choice.
QUOTE: Have to courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 23, 2011 13:53:27 GMT -5
Welcome weezy. :)I'm glad you like quotes. ;)One thing I would ask, please say who said or wrote the quote. A quote means more it you know who's responsible - Eddie Murphy or Mother Teresa, Karl Marx or Groucho Marx.
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 23, 2011 14:16:47 GMT -5
Quotes for Today William Holmes McGuffey was born at Finely Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania on this day in 1800. Self educated, he was teaching at age thirteen, later getting a college degree and spending the rest of his life as either a college president (which he didn't enjoy and wasn't good at, one of the schools went bankrupt under his leadership) or professor. But his McGuffey Peerless Pioneer Readers sold 122 million copies and tought countless Americans to read. QUOTES: "A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. - Doris Lessing b. 1919
And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. - Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful. - Vincent van Gogh, 1853 - 1890
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? ... A book must be like an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka, 1883 - 1924
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. - Richard Wright, 1908 - 1960
Thought of the Day: "Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can." --John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (1703-1791)
Quote of the Day: "Some men are born mediocre, some men achiever mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them." --Joseph Heller, author (1923-1999)
Quote of the Moment: "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." --Helen Keller, deaf/blind autohr (1880-1968)
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 24, 2011 13:21:42 GMT -5
Quotes for Today Labor Day is a celebration observed in most countries, although there is a large variation in the date. We honor the concept of labor and those who perform it by, naturally, taking a day off from our labors. Alas, in these parlous times that makes rather less sense than normal, given the staggering numbers in almost every country that not only won't be working on that day but won't be working the rest of the week. Let's hope that those that are charged with working on this problem make some progress by next year. QUOTES ON WORK: "Without work all life goes rotten." - Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960
"There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834 - 1892
"Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains." - Horace Greeley, 1811 - 1872
"Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment and well-paid labor produce, in a country like ours, general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness. Thus happy have we seen the country." - Daniel Webster, 1782 - 1852
"Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume." - Victor Hugo, 1802 - 1885
"Even in the meanest sorts of Labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work." - Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881
"The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment." - Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784
Thought of the Day: "Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention." --Simone Weil, French philosopher & mystec (1909-1943)
Quote of the Day: "The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future." --Jessamyn West, author (1902-1984)
Quote of the Moment: "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." --John Burroughs, naturalist (1937-1921)
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 25, 2011 12:39:30 GMT -5
Quotes for Today A great deal of history is the record of battles fought. A few of those battles were significant turning points. One such was the English victory over the French at the Battle of Crécy on Aug 26th in 1346. The longbow had been around for centuries but had never been a decisive weapon until the English learned to use it well and trained a large part of the population. A typical English archer of the day could loose a dozen arrows in a minute, at a range of over 200 yards, with most shots hitting a target. Our quotes today on Arrows are, happily, less warlike in nature. QUOTES ON ARROWS: Convey love to thy friend as an arrow to the mark; not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back again. - Francis Quarles, 1592 - 1644
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 - 1882
The supreme irony of business management is that it is far easier for an inadequate CEO to keep his job than it is for an inadequate subordinate.... At too many companies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance and then hastily paints the bullseye around the spot where it lands. - Warren Buffett, financier (b. 1930)
I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. - J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892 - 1973
Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. - Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626
Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. - Michel de Montaigne, 1533 - 1592
Thought of the Day: "A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." --Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th Pres. of the US (1890-1969)
Quote of the Day: "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." --Herm Albright, German-born artist (1876-1944)
Quote of the Moment: "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." --Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France (1769-1821)
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 25, 2011 13:02:14 GMT -5
Quotes for Today A great deal of history is the record of battles fought. A few of those battles were significant turning points. One such was the English victory over the French at the Battle of Crécy on Aug 26th in 1346. The longbow had been around for centuries but had never been a decisive weapon until the English learned to use it well and trained a large part of the population. A typical English archer of the day could loose a dozen arrows in a minute, at a range of over 200 yards, with most shots hitting a target. Our quotes today on Arrows are, happily, less warlike in nature. QUOTES ON ARROWS: Convey love to thy friend as an arrow to the mark; not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back again. - Francis Quarles, 1592 - 1644
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 - 1882
The supreme irony of business management is that it is far easier for an inadequate CEO to keep his job than it is for an inadequate subordinate.... At too many companies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance and then hastily paints the bullseye around the spot where it lands. - Warren Buffett, financier (b. 1930)
I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. - J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892 - 1973
Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. - Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626
Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. - Michel de Montaigne, 1533 - 1592
Thought of the Day: "A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." --Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th Pres. of the US (1890-1969)
Quote of the Day: "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." --Herm Albright, German-born artist (1876-1944)
Quote of the Moment: "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." --Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France (1769-1821)
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 26, 2011 14:57:27 GMT -5
Quotes for Today John Chapman was born at Leominster, Mass. on Sept. 26th in 1774. Johnny headed west in 1797, just ahead of a wave of westward expansion, planting apple orchards in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, some of which are still bearing fruit. He didn't just throw the seed on the ground as sometimes depicted, he bought land and started nurseries. He did give away a lot of trees, but mostly sold them to homesteaders who were required to plant fifty apple trees in the first year. He spent almost fifty years growing Apples. QUOTES (Apples): "Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent." - Mark Twain, author (1835-1910)
"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less." - Arthur Miller, playwright (1915-2005)
"As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated." - Horace Mann, educator (1796-1859)
"Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done." - Jim Rohn, motivational speaker (1930-2009)
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther King, Jr, civil rights activist (1929-1968)
"A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard—by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off." - Archibald Macleish, author (1892-1982)
Thought of the Day: "A man may learn wisdom even from a foe." --Aristophanes, Greek comic playwright (c.448-390 B.C.)
Quote of the Day: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." --Sir Winston Churchill, English statesman (1874-1965)
Quote of the Moment: "Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today." --Meredith Willson, playwright/composer (1902-1984)
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Post by Miss Who on Sept 26, 2011 15:54:15 GMT -5
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 27, 2011 12:44:31 GMT -5
Quotes for Today Henri-Frédéric Amiel was born at Geneva, Switzerland on sEPT. 27th in 1821. Although his parents died when he was quite young, he was able to travel widely and befriended many of the intellectual leaders of Europe. He was appointed professor of aesthetics (1849) and professor of moral philosophy (1854) at the Academy of Geneva, but these positions given by the democratic party isolated him from the cultural life of the city. Although he published several volumes of poetry we know him today for his "Intimate Journal", which he kept for the last two decades of his life, largely philosophical musings that totaled over 16,000 pages. QUOTES: "A belief is not true because it is useful."
"A man must be able to cut a knot, for not everything can be untied."
"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
"Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."
"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."
"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
Perfect happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. All from Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1821 - 1881
Thought of the Day: "Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you," --Lisa Alther, novelist (b. 1944)
Quote of the Day: "Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything." --Charles Kuralt, TV journalist (1934-1997)
Quote of the Moment: "A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. " --Tennesse Wiliams (1911-1983) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 28, 2011 11:17:31 GMT -5
Quotes for Today For most of us, penicillin is old news, an antibiotic long replaced by more powerful or more specific treatments, but it was on this day in 1928 that Alexander Fleming found a mold growing in one of his culture dishes and killing a staph culture he was studying. It was only during World War II that Fleming's discovery became a useful treatment, which demonstrates how recent most of what we know as "traditional medicine" actually is. Comments about medicine, however, haven't changed greatly over the years. QUOTES: "He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines." - Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790
"Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken." - Karl Augustus Menninger, 1893 - 1990
"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday." - John Glenn (b. 1921)
"The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine." - George Carlin, 1937 - 2008
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." - François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778
"Praise, like penicillin must not be administered haphazardly." - Haim Ginott, 1922 - 1973
Thought of the Day: "A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere." -- Martial, Latin poet (c.38/41-102/04)
Quote of the Day: "Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." --Jim Carrey, actor (b. 1962)
Quote of the Moment: "Strong reasons make strong actions." --William Shakespeare, English playwright (1564-1616)
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 29, 2011 15:34:46 GMT -5
Quotes for Today Today, Sept. 29th, is the Feast of Michael and All Angels, Michaelmas in England. Scripture gives us little hints about these creatures, and man has been fascinated with them for millennia. Various commentators have come up with nine orders of angels, from the greatest, the Seraphim, then the Cherubim, down to the lowest, the Archangels and Angels - all seem to agree on the names, and the ranking of those four, but the middle ranks differ. I'm not going to try to make any sense out of them, but I have plenty of QUOTES ON ANGELS. "We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860 - 1904
"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." - Luciano de Crescenzo, Itlaian writer/actor-director (b. 1928)
"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an to look out." - B. C. Forbes, founder Forbes magazine (1880-1954)
"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men." - Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784
"Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness." - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist/novelist (b. 1947)
"I'm no , but I've spread my wings a bit." - Mae West, 1893 - 1980
Thought of the Day: "You cannot conceive the many without the one." --Plato, Classical Greek philospher (429-347 B.C.)
Quote of the Day: "It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf." --H. L. Mencken, journalist/critic (1880-1956)
Quote of the Moment: "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." --William Hazlitt, English writer (1778-1830)
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Post by Flying Horse on Sept 30, 2011 16:10:38 GMT -5
Quotes for Today ABOUT CENSORSHIP. "Censorship…is always and everywhere an evil. Censorship means the screening of material by an authority invested with power to ban that which it disapproves….And who is that paragon to whom we would be willing to entrust such authority?" -- Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld (1913-1996)
"Censorhio is advertising paid by the government." --Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
"The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important." -- Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)
"It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack." -- Voltaire [aka François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to." -- Laurence J. Peter(1919-1990)
"If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all." -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Thought of the Day: "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." ---Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist (179-1955)
Quote of the Day: "The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you>" --Lady Nancy Aster, American-born British politician (1879-1964)
Quote of the Moment: "Whoso would be a man must be a noncomformist." --Ralph Waldo Emerson, Trancendentalist writer (1803-1882)
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Post by Flying Horse on Oct 2, 2011 15:23:31 GMT -5
Quotes for Today Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner was born at Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England on Oct 2nd in 1951, the eldest of four children of a hairdresser and a milkman. An uncle emigrated to Canada, leaving behind his guitar, which provided Gordon an escape from his unhappy lower-class origins. Playing in jazz bands during college, he earned the name Sting after performing in a black and yellow sweater that the band leader thought made him look like a bee. In 1977 he joined a New Wave band called The Police, over the next five years they released five hit albums and won six Grammy Awards. In addition to his solo work he acted in a number of films in the '80s. He has been active in promoting human rights causes, as well as working with other high-profile performers. He has been with his second wife for thirty years, married for eighteen of them. QUOTES: "Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves."
"I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back."
"I tend to write the music first. If it's good music, it has a story."
"I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them."
"Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one."
"I've got the same rank as James Bond. Commander of the British Empire. It used to span the whole world, from Britain to India and including America. But now it's the size of a postage stamp."
Thought of the Day: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedey." --Sir Ernest Benn, British publiishe & writerr (1875-1954)
Quote of the Day: "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." --H. H. Munro [pseud. Saki], British short story writer(1870-1916)
Quote of the Moment: "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." --François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, French author of maxims (1613-1680)
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Post by Flying Horse on Oct 3, 2011 10:38:07 GMT -5
] Quotes for Today Wilton Norman Chamberlain was born at Philadelphia, Pa. on Aug 21st in 1936, a full nine inches longer than the national average. I'm not much of a sports fan, but for a generation "Wilt the Stilt" or "The Big Dipper" defined tall. Looking over the stats quickly, it's hard to believe anyone else will do as much with their height as Chamberlain did, at least not on a basketball court. In the past I've chosen metaphorical quotes on this theme, this time I'm sticking pretty much with the literal trait. QUOTES ON HEIGHT: "For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!" Dr. Ruth Westheimer
"Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy." - Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984
"I should confess that I've always been more of an observer than a participant in Texas Womanhood: the spirit was willing but I was declared ineligible on grounds of size early. You can't be six feet tall and cute, both. I think I was first named captain of the basketball team when I was four and that's what I've been ever since." - Molly Ivins, 1944 - 2007
"Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe." - Julia Child, 1912 - 2004
"Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who are not so tall have to choose!" - Richard Feynman, 1918 - 1988
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes." - Raymond Chandler, 1888 - 1959
Thought of the Day: "Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it." — Woody Guthrie, folk singer-songwriter (1912-1967).
Quote of the Day: "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." --George Burns, comedian (1896-1996)
Quote of the Moment: "I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." --Alexander von Humboldt, German founder of modern geography (1769-1850)
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Post by Flying Horse on Oct 4, 2011 12:03:48 GMT -5
Quotes for Today The world economy is a pretty sorry situation, most often expressed as a lack of growth, so the concept was already on my mind. But while economic indicators seem largely negative, all is not gloom. QUOTES ON GROWTH: If growth and progress are what we need to get out of our crisis, then it will be found not through managerial attitudes but through the release of talents... - John Ralston
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. - William Butler Yeats, 1865 - 1939
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. - William Ellery Channing, 1780 - 1842
We are not unlike a particularly hardy crustacean.... With each passage from one stage of human growth to the next we, too, must shed a protective structure. We are left exposed and vulnerable, but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before. - Gail Sheehy
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety. - Abraham Maslow, 1908 - 1970
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. - Edgar R. Fiedler
Thought of the Day: "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also." --Charles Horton Cooley, sociologist (1864-1929)
Quote of the Day: "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." --Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd Pres. of the US (1882-1945)
Quote of the Moment: "The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." --Andre Malraux, French writer (1901-1976)
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