Monday, January 21, 2008
Quotes Update
Anon.
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Teena Booth
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Bertrand Russell
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
Anonymous
A man is known by the company he avoids.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Marcel Marceau
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth.
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
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Anon.
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Teena Booth
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Bertrand Russell
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
Anonymous
A man is known by the company he avoids.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Marcel Marceau
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth.
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
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Clever Velcro fasteners make windows easy
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:56:00 GMT
Hampton Roads Daily Press - The almanac is a compilation of all things garden-related — tips, bits of wisdom, quotations, odd facts, recipes, you name it. It's the kind of book that gives you a smile or an insight whenever you pick it up, a volume to be absorbed a bit at a ...
Todays Quotes
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]
Serbian hardliner leads presidential polls, but run-off expected ...
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:08:00 GMT
Forbes - The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and neither AFX News nor its third party content providers shall be liable ...
Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...] ¶ 5:28 PM
