Quotes Of The Moment:
Up For just about EVER! ha ha ha July 2006 - Aug 2007
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells
From: The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
March -July 2006
Love Arm'd
Love in Fantastique Triumph sat,
Whilst bleeding Hearts around him flow'd,
For whom Fresh pains he did create,
And strange Tryanic power he show'd;
From thy Bright Eyes he took his fire,
Which round about, in sport he hurl'd;
But 'twas from mine he took desire,
Enough to undo the Amorous World.
From me he took his sighs and tears,
From thee his Pride and Crueltie;
From me his Languishments and Feares,
And every Killing Dart from thee;
Thus thou and I, the God have arm'd,
And sett him up a Deity;
But my poor Heart alone is harm'd,
Whilst thine the Victor is, and free.
by Aphra Behn
Jan-March 2006
Time and Again
Time and again, however well we know the landscape of love,
and the little church-yard with lamenting names,
and the frightfully silent ravine wherein all the others
end: time and again we go out two together,
under the old trees, lie down again and again
between the flowers, face to face with the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926
Nov 2005 - Jan 2006
"Dear Chris..."
Kathleen E. Newell - In letter to Chris
D'Alessandro - November 2005
April -November 2005
"I’ve got the
world on a string, sittin’ on a rainbow, got the string around my finger..."
Ted Koehler (1894–1973), U.S. songwriter. “I’ve Got
the World on a String,”
April-May 2005
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who
used to snub you.
Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
March -April 2005
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that
knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
September - December 2004
.Beware
of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us
victories.
-Abraham Lincoln
August-September 2004
From ignorance our comfort flows.
The only wretched are the wise.
Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
July - August 2004
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by
something unexpected.
--Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.),
Roman general, political leader, and first Roman dictator. The Gallic War, 6.39
May - July 2004
What we receive too cheap, we
esteem too lightly...it would be
strange indeed if so celestial an
article as FREEDOM should not be
highly rated.
---Thomas Paine
April 2004
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -
ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but
what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy
March 2004
You're not drunk if you can lie on the
floor without holding on.
-Dean Martin
February 2004
In Italy for thirty years under the
Borgias
they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of
democracy and peace and what did that produce...? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles - The Third Man
January 2004
"Greatness is a transitory experience.
It is never consistent.
It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind.
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for
the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected on him. And he
must
have a strong sense of the sardonic. That is what uncouples him
from the belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits
him
to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness
will destroy a man.
-from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" By the Princess Irulan"
Frank Herbert - Dune
December 2003
Where love rules, there is no will to
power,
and where power predominates, love is lacking.
The one is the shadow of the other.
-Carl Gustav Jung
November 2003
audaces fortuna iuvat
(Fortune favors the bold.)
-Latin Saying...
September / October 2003
My music is best understood by
children and animals.
-Igor Stravinsky
August / September 2003:
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they
misname
empire; and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace."
-- Tacitus
July 2003:
...I often reflect upon the word "morality," the most troublesome and confusing
word of all.
There is no single or supreme morality; there are many, each defining the mode
by which a system of entities optimally interacts.
The eminent entomologist Fabre, bereaving a mantis in the act of devouring its
mate, exclaimed: "What an abominable custom!"
The ordinary man, during a day's time, may be obliged to act by the terms of a
half dozen different moralities. Some of these acts, appropriate at the moment,
may the next moment be considered obscene or opprobrious in terms of another
morality.
The person who, let us say, expects generosity form a bank, efficient
flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious
institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent
immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.
-From Life, Volume I, by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey