Angela Thirkell, The Headmistress (1945)
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Monsters are real …. ~ Stephen King
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
~ Stephen King
Public speaking ~ Evan Esar
Public speaking is the art diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
~ Evan Esar (1899 – 1995)
To be persuasive …. ~ Edward R. Murrow
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.” ~ Edward R. Murrow (B: April 25, 1908 – D: April 27, 1965)
A Pondering Moment
if there
was no
such thing
called
weather,
what else
could
people
bitch about
Rules For Happiness ~ Immanuel Kant
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
~ Immanuel Kant, Philosopher – B: April 22, 1724 – D: February 12, 1804
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” ~ Galileo Galilei
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture. ~ Jacquelyn Mitchard*
*The Deep End of the Ocean
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. ~ Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison (1943 – 1971), No One Hear Gets Out Alive
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; ~ Jim Morrison
Few people know how to take a walk. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. ~ Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler – British Poet, Author 1835 – 1902
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. ~ Charles M. Schulz
“Acting is happy agony.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like life. It’s something to do. ~ Ronnie Shakes
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” ~ Andy Rooney
Always read with a pen in your hands,… ~ Tim Parks
“Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed … Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write ‘splendid,’ but also, ‘I don’t believe a word of it.’ And even ‘bullshit.'”
~ Tim Parks, Novelist – Born: December 19, 1954
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” ~ T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“Why don’t you write books people can read?”
“Why don’t you write books people can read?”
– Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
