PUT DOWN 

Quote of the Day - May 16,  2010


"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."


Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962] in Catholic Digest, August 1960, p. 102

HAVING THE GRACE
TO LIFT UP YOUR FACE

Quote for the Day - May 15, 2010


"The time
cracks into furious flower. Lifts its face
all unashamed. And sways in wicked grace."

Gwendolyn Brooks [1917- ] In The Mecca [1968], The Second Sermon on the Warplane, stanza 4

OBLITERATED

Quote for the Day - May 14, 2010

"Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky."

Anais Nin [1903-1977], The Diary of Anais Nin, volume III, January 1944

EITHER OFF OR ON?

Quote for the Day - May 13,  2010


"There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place - then it won't make a damn."


Ken Kesey [September 17, 1935 --- November 10, 2001], Quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [1968], chapter 6


Painting on top: "The Green Car" by the American artist Wiliam Glackens [1870-1938], Oil on canvas, 1910.

BETTER KNOW BASEBALL

Quote for the Day  May 12, 2010

"Whoever wants to know the heart of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams."

Jacques Barzun [1907- ] God's Country and Mine [1954]

NEEDS

Quote for the Day - May 11, 2010


"From birth to eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash."


Sophie Tucker [c. 1884-1966] Said at sixty-nine. She is also said to have said, "I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better."

Didn't Woody Allen say basically the same thing?

RESURRECTION

Quote for the Day - May 10, 2010

"Spring bursts today, for Christ is risen and all the earth's at play."

Christina Georgina Rossetti