Tuesday Quote of the Week

"Wit is cultured insolence."
~~Aristotle

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"Chance furnishes me what I need. I am like a man who stumbles along; my foot strikes something. I bend over and it is exactly what I want."
~~James Joyce

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"If you are going to yell at me, tell me exactly what you want or you'll get exactly what you asked for."
Neil Young on PBS's American Masters. At this point, he was talking about the album This Notes for You.

This clip is also from the American Masters show. The whole show is recommended!

Tuesday Quote of the Week

“Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.”

~Alice Walker

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"The dissonance of today is the consonance of tomorrow."
~~Claude Debussy

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"Close observation of a passion often reveals the panic that feeds it."

~~Nick Bantock (from The Museum at Purgatory, 1999)

Forty-one years ago today...

...Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words:

"...and I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man."

The next day he was assassinated.

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
~~Aldous Huxley

"Life on Mars" dialogue quote of the week

"When I'm done he'll be in Rikers eating bologna out of a straw."

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"Blogging is like having coffee with friends, only they aren't the people you would want to sit around the table with."

~~Connie Schultz, author of "And His Lovely Wife" speaking at the Nieman Conference in Boston on March 20.

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
~~Mary Lou Cook

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life."
~~Hal Borland

"Life on Mars" quote of the week

"I'm gonna punch you in the face so hard they'll find your smirk down on Canal Street."

"Life on Mars" quote of the week

"Maybe if you spend enough time with a crazy person, the craziness rubs off on you....Is all I know is the more time I spend with you, the dizzier I get."

Tuesday quote of the week

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

~~Kahlil Gibran

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
~~Galileo

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
~~Henry Longfellow

Tuesday quote of the week

"We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one."

~~John Updike (1932-2009)

Tuesday Quote of the Week

"People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true."

~~Robert J. Ringer