"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Inspiring Quotes
What are they talkin' about?
1000 Important Things
age
Ali
arguement
Art
authors
Beatles
beauty
Bible
books
Calvin and Hobbes
change
children
comedy
comics/cartoons
courage
dancing
daredevils
Death
diapers
Dr. Suess
dreams
ecology
Edison
Education
Einstein
ethics
facial hair
failure
faith
fame
food
Gandhi
Greeks
happiness
Holocaust
ideas
imagination
inspiration
insult
justice
leadership
liberty
Life
love
magic
math
mothers
music
my parents
pacifism
parenting
peace
Peanuts
perseverance
perspective
poetry
prayer
Presidents
problem solving
race
respect
risk
Romans
Saints
Shakespeare
sin
soul
spelling
sports
Springsteen
talent
talking animals
technology
truth
Twain
universe
violence
Vonnegut
war
wisdom
women
work
writing
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Monday, June 14, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
"Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Labels:
1000 Important Things,
authors,
perseverance,
work
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Europe Trip
Europe, here he comes!
Well, he will if he raises enough money in the next 8 months...
Right now I'm just looking for encouragement for his efforts, and maybe some ideas and suggestions, so please click on one of his links? Thanks!
Well, he will if he raises enough money in the next 8 months...
Right now I'm just looking for encouragement for his efforts, and maybe some ideas and suggestions, so please click on one of his links? Thanks!
Monday, May 3, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."
Plato
Dorothy Day
"Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul."
Suzanne Fields (isn't she the cookie lady?)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
"Talent is God given; be humble. Fame is man given; be thankful. Conceit is self given; be careful."
Kareem Abdul Jabbar also has a nice web site with a post honoring Coach Wooden.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
"Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once."
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
G.K. Chesterton
Friday, August 14, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Robert A. Heinlein
thanks to Lorin and elise's quotes ; now I need to somehow fit it into my "1000 Important Things..." list
Robert A. Heinlein
thanks to Lorin and elise's quotes ; now I need to somehow fit it into my "1000 Important Things..." list
Monday, June 29, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
Sir Joshua Reynolds
"Art is to society what dreams are to a person"
Laliberte and Kehl (who???)
"I shut my eyes in order to see."
Paul Gauguin
"Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it!"
Danny Kaye
"A line is a dot that went for a walk."
Paul Klee
Thanks to my Humanities text; better get something out of it besides the bill for $135.00 + tax!!!!
Sir Joshua Reynolds
"Art is to society what dreams are to a person"
Laliberte and Kehl (who???)
"I shut my eyes in order to see."
Paul Gauguin
"Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it!"
Danny Kaye
"A line is a dot that went for a walk."
Paul Klee
Thanks to my Humanities text; better get something out of it besides the bill for $135.00 + tax!!!!
Friday, April 17, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
Don Marquis
Ah yes, my old friends (Procrastination and Inspiration, not Jack and Don), how appropriate this week as I complete 2 months worth of projects in 3 days...
Jack London
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
Don Marquis
Ah yes, my old friends (Procrastination and Inspiration, not Jack and Don), how appropriate this week as I complete 2 months worth of projects in 3 days...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Sunday, November 16, 2008
“…encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness, and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.”
Titus 2:6-8
Man, there are quite a few Pop Warner coaches I would like to beat soundly over the head with this one...
Titus 2:6-8
Man, there are quite a few Pop Warner coaches I would like to beat soundly over the head with this one...
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Kurt Vonnegut
Hmmm... have to think about this one -- "murderous resentment?" -- but did pick up Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 and found a whole chapter on cool Vonnegut quotes...
Kurt Vonnegut
Hmmm... have to think about this one -- "murderous resentment?" -- but did pick up Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 and found a whole chapter on cool Vonnegut quotes...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
"If you don't respect yourself no body gonna give a hoop-de-hoop*"
Bruce Willis "Respect Yourself" (off the Return of Bruno LP?)
I know that's not what they say, but I'm supposed to be doing other things so I ain't looking it up... reminds me of my sister singing Kenny Loggins** -- "I'm all right, don't nobody butterfly me"
**yes, she is so old Kenny Loggins songs were on the radio...
Bruce Willis "Respect Yourself" (off the Return of Bruno LP?)
I know that's not what they say, but I'm supposed to be doing other things so I ain't looking it up... reminds me of my sister singing Kenny Loggins** -- "I'm all right, don't nobody butterfly me"
**yes, she is so old Kenny Loggins songs were on the radio...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
“Pursue the things you love doing, and do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. All other tangible rewards will come as a result.”
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Labels:
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Friday, May 30, 2008
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
Malcolm X
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin
Malcolm X
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin
Friday, May 16, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
~Erasmus
cribbed from http://tickettoanywhere.blogspot.com/ -- thanks!
~Erasmus
cribbed from http://tickettoanywhere.blogspot.com/ -- thanks!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
"It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say 'damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete..' you gonna be like 'DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE'"
Tupac Shakur
(we kick it over on LT)
Tupac Shakur
(we kick it over on LT)
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”
-Oscar Wilde
In an effort to be thorough with Wilde’s quote, I used my well-thumbed (well-clicked?) Thesaurus:
-Oscar Wilde
In an effort to be thorough with Wilde’s quote, I used my well-thumbed (well-clicked?) Thesaurus:
wicked – bad, wrong, evil; sinful, depraved, fiendish;atrocious
fascination – attraction, appeal, allure, enticement, magnetism
vulgar – crude, rough, tasteless; common, improper,unfortunate
popular – accepted, admired, traditional, expected; prevalent, widespread
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
"If you love someone put their name in a circle, not a heart, because hearts can be broken but circles go on forever!"
- Unknown
"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control."
- Unknown
borrowed from "Priya"
- Unknown
"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control."
- Unknown
borrowed from "Priya"
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."
Henry David Thoreau
found on "Bookish Kitty"
Henry David Thoreau
found on "Bookish Kitty"
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
"Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals."
Ammon Hennacy
pacifist, anarcist, never paid taxes
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Leo Tolstoy
"There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence."
Jaques Ellul
philosopher
Ammon Hennacy
pacifist, anarcist, never paid taxes
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Leo Tolstoy
"There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence."
Jaques Ellul
philosopher
Friday, January 11, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
"Intellect, emotion, and spirit depend on one another for wholeness."
"I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy."
Parker J. Palmer The Courage to Teach
One of my goals in life is to one day be able to say that, and know exactly what it feels like...
"I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy."
Parker J. Palmer The Courage to Teach
One of my goals in life is to one day be able to say that, and know exactly what it feels like...
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Friday, December 21, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
"People who matter don't count, and people who count don't matter."
"If you're gonna stay out with the big boys, you gotta get up with the big boys."
"There's no such thing as a free lunch"
My Dad
"My big ones are eating my little ones."
"If you keep playing with/picking at that it will fall off."
and I believe these are from My Mom
Thank you!
"If you're gonna stay out with the big boys, you gotta get up with the big boys."
"There's no such thing as a free lunch"
My Dad
"My big ones are eating my little ones."
"If you keep playing with/picking at that it will fall off."
and I believe these are from My Mom
Thank you!
Monday, December 3, 2007
"The man who does not read good books is no better
than the man who can't."
— Mark Twain
"To learn to read is to light a fire;
every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
thank you!
than the man who can't."
— Mark Twain
"To learn to read is to light a fire;
every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
thank you!
Sunday, December 2, 2007
"We can never do merely one thing."
"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."
ecologist Garrett Hardin
Hardin was primarily concerned with "bioethical" issues such as overfishing and deforestation, but his work also brought attention to the personal-to-global effects of every decision and action (or inaction) -- think ripples in a pond, think Jurassic Park and Jeff Goldblum's "Chaos Theory" of the butterfly wings causing hurricanes... or think of The Fixx.
"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."
ecologist Garrett Hardin
Hardin was primarily concerned with "bioethical" issues such as overfishing and deforestation, but his work also brought attention to the personal-to-global effects of every decision and action (or inaction) -- think ripples in a pond, think Jurassic Park and Jeff Goldblum's "Chaos Theory" of the butterfly wings causing hurricanes... or think of The Fixx.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
It's funny (or ironic?), but I a few days after posting this my Dad and I had a heated (yet civil) discussion about the choice to do violence to another person. Under our violence conversation was of course the issue of the righteousness and glorification of war, the current one and others, but seeing as how we were out in the carport on thanksgiving night, Mom decided the convo needed to be cut short. But part of what he was saying was that there is not only the choice to do violence (i.e., drop the bombs) but also the choice to receive the violence -- to be in the place where the bombs will be dropped... Does this have merit? Or is it rationalization to assuage guilt?
Sunday, November 18, 2007
"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."
R. Kipling
"A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it."
W. Shakespeare
thanks, Bro, although I hope you didn't just call my woman thick and bereft of beauty...
R. Kipling
"A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it."
W. Shakespeare
thanks, Bro, although I hope you didn't just call my woman thick and bereft of beauty...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
"The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
Maya Angelou
"The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
"Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man," Freeman says to Wallace. "And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You wouldn't say, 'Well, I know this white guy named Mike Wallace.' You know what I'm sayin'?"
Morgan Freeman (obviously)
Morgan Freeman (obviously)
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."
"We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should."
"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. "
"Go take a flying **** at a rolling doughnut,"
"If you can do no good, at least do no harm."
"...[freedom of speech] isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself. "
"You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit. "
"So it goes."
Thank you, Mr. Vonnegut, for the inspiring, shocking, blessing magic of your life and work.
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