Mon 8 Dec 2014
Posted by PJ under love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
—Iris Murdoch, “The Sublime and the Good,†Chicago Review, Vol. 13, Iss. 3, Autumn 1959
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Fri 5 Dec 2014
Posted by PJ under imagination, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:Â
“It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
—Mark Twain, The American Claimant
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 4 Dec 2014
Posted by PJ under food, humor, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.”
—E. B. White, The New Yorker, December 8, 1928
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 3 Dec 2014
Posted by PJ under gods, nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:Â
“Nothing could persuade me that ‘in the image of God’ applied only to man. In fact it seemed to me that the high mountains, the rivers, lakes, trees, flowers, and animals far better exemplified the essence of God than men with their ridiculous clothes, their meanness, vanity, mendacity, and abhorrent egotism…”
—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (tr. Clara and Richard Winston)
* http://www.bartleby.com/122/7.html
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 2 Dec 2014
Posted by PJ under internet, quote of the day, reading
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Random quote of the day:
“The real issue with the internet may be that it erodes, slowly, one’s sense of self, one’s capacity for the kind of pleasure in isolation that reading has, since printed books became common, been standard.”
—Henry Hitchings, quoted in The Guardian, 15 July 2010, “The Art of Slow Readingâ€
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 1 Dec 2014
Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
—Charles Bukowski, “Writing,†New Poems Book Three
(Apparently, Mr. Bukowski did more than one poem named “Writing.” He’s Charles Bukowski. He can do that if he wants to.)
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 24 Nov 2014
Posted by PJ under language, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.”
—Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Fri 21 Nov 2014
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sex
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Random quote of the day:
“I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.”
—Edna O’Brien, interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1984, No. 92
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 20 Nov 2014
Posted by PJ under mind, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:Â
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
—Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 19 Nov 2014
Posted by PJ under paradise, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“There are no limits to paradise. Any paradise worth the name can sustain all the flaws in creation and remain undiminished, untarnished.”
—Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
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