Friday, January 25, 2008
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Willa Sibert Cather
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
Laurence Binyen
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,We shall remember them.
Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway.
Malayan Proverb
Trumpet in a herd of elephants crow in the company of cocks bleat in a flock of goats.
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4 Quotes on Fields
Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]
Quotes from Sir Edmund's funeral
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:11:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - "Sir Ed opened our eyes to a world of possibilities." "I still remember when I was young, first hearing the story of how my father and Sir Ed had clim Everest...I was enthralled." "When sherpas heard ... ¶ 10:46 PM
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Willa Sibert Cather
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
Laurence Binyen
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,We shall remember them.
Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway.
Malayan Proverb
Trumpet in a herd of elephants crow in the company of cocks bleat in a flock of goats.
More Quotations
4 Quotes on Fields
Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]
Quotes from Sir Edmund's funeral
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:11:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - "Sir Ed opened our eyes to a world of possibilities." "I still remember when I was young, first hearing the story of how my father and Sir Ed had clim Everest...I was enthralled." "When sherpas heard ... ¶ 10:46 PM
