Tuesday 04/26/11

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
~ Robert Frost ~

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Thursday 04/28/11

One man with courage is a majority.
~ Thomas Jefferson ~

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~ Winston Churchill ~

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~ Aristotle ~

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
~ George S. Patton ~

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

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Saturday 04/30/11

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
~ Joan Didion ~

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
~ Robert Fitzgerald ~

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.
~ Emanuel Ax ~

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
~ Leo Ornstein ~

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
~ Edmond Rostand ~

Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.
~ Guy Clark ~

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
~ Ralph Ellison ~

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Monday 05/02/11

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
~ Kin Hubbard ~

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Wednesday 05/04/11

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
~ Kin Hubbard ~

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Friday 05/06/11

A loafer always has the correct time.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
~ Kin Hubbard ~

¿Pessimist? An experienced optimist.
~ Anonymous ~

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
~ Mark Twain ~

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Sunday 05/08/11

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."
~ T. S. Eliot ~

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
~ William Butler Yeats ~

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
~ Jim Carrey ~

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
~ Joan Rivers ~

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
~ Alice Walker ~

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

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Tuesday 05/10/11

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.
~ Kin Hubbard ~

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Thursday 05/12/11

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
~ Raymond Chandler ~

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Saturday 05/14/11

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
~ Danielle Steel ~

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
~ Patrick Macnee ~

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
~ Iris Murdoch ~

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
~ Dustin Hoffman ~

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

--Mark Twain

Tuesday 05/17/11

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
~ Aristotle ~

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Thursday 05/19/11

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
~ Joseph Joubert ~

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