John Prine - October 10, 1946


“Have you ever noticed / When you're feeling really good / There's always a pigeon / That'll come shit on your hood / Or you're feeling your freedom / And the world's off your back / Some cowboy from Texas / Starts his own war in Iraq.”

Henry Heinz - October 11, 1844

“To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success.”

Susan ANton - October 12, 1950

"I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day."

Leonard Alfred Schneider - October 13, 1925

“The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.”

Dwight David Eisenhower - October 14, 1890

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”

Publius Vergilius Maro - October 15, 70 bc

“Fortune favors the bold.”

Henri Bergson - October 18, 1859

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

Annie Smith Peck - October 19, 1850

"Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow."

Louis Marshall Jones - October 20, 1913

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Alfred Bernhard Nobel - October 21, 1833

“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”

Sarah Bernhardt - October 22, 1844

“We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.”

Diana Dors - October 23, 1931

“I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?' He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert.”

Sarah J. Hale - October 24, 1788

"Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home."

Sarah Ophelia Colley - October 25, 1912

“Take the back roads instead of the highways.”

Napoleon Hill - October 26, 1883

“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”

Dylan Thomas - October 27, 1914

“When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
With them forgive yourself.
- William Shakespeare

cd, you're only 6 months and 1 day late... :)

damn! story of my life.....

Desiderius Erasmus - October 28, 1469

“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”

Fanny Brice - October 29, 1891

“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”

Grace Slick - October 30, 1939

“No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.”

John Keats - October 31, 1795

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

Larry Flynt - November 1, 1942

“Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.”

Daniel Boone - November 2, 1734

“I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks”

William Cullen Bryant - November 3, 1794

“Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.”

Will Rogers - November 4, 1879

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.”

Eugene Victor Debs - November 5, 1855

“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”

Charles Henry Dow - November 6, 1851

“The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.”

Albert Camus - November 7, 1913

“In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.”

Bram Stoker - November 8, 1847

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

Leila Marie Koerber - November 9, 1868

“I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.”

Martin Luther - November 10, 1483

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - November 11, 1922

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

^ a january baby...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - November 12, 1815

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.”

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

-- Australian Aboriginal Proverb

not tryin' to rain on your parade, buddy, but red (warrrreagl) kinda set the parameters for this thread...

Edwin Booth - November 13, 1833

“The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.”

Joseph R. McCarthy - November 14, 1908

“I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five (people) that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.”

Barry McGuire - November 15, 1937

"But you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe
We're on the eve
of destruction."

Burgess Meredith November 16 1907
Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.

Martha Plimpton - November 16, 1970

"I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'"

Louis XVIII of France - November 17, 1755

“Punctuality is the politeness of kings.”

Alan Shepard {First American in Space} 18 November 1923

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Cesare Lombroso - November 18, 1835

“Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”

James A. Garfield - November 19, 1831

“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.”

Chester Gould - November 20, 1900

“I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.”

Tweety Bird 21November1942
I Tawt I Taw a Putty Tat

Francois-Marie Arouet - November 21, 1694

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

Mary Ann Evans - November 22, 1819

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen each other ... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”

Arthur Adolph Marx - November 23, 1888

"I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear."

Scott Joplin - November 24, 1868

“When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.”

JM
 

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

Carry Nation - November 25, 1846

“Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils.”

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december 8, 1943...

Charles M. Schulz - November 26, 1922

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'”

"Buffalo" Bob Smith - November 27, 1917

"Hey kids, what time is it?"

William Blake - November 28, 1757

“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.”

Merle Travis - November 29, 1917

"You load sixteen tons, and what do you get..."

Busby Berkeley - November 29, 1895

“I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour.”

Jonathan Swift - November 30, 1667

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

Richard Pryor - December 1, 1940

“Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.”

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. - December 2, 1924

"That's not a lie. It is a terminological inexactitude."

George B. McClellan - December 3, 1826

"All quiet along the Potomac."

Wassily Kandinsky - December 4, 1866

“An empty canvas is a living wonder.. far lovelier than certain pictures.”

George Armstrong Custer - December 5, 1839

“There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.”

Alfred Joyce Kilmer - December 6, 1886

“It is stern work, it is perilous work to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men.”

Harry Chapin - December 7, 1942

“I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.”

James Thurber - December 8, 1894

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”

Margaret Hamilton - December 9, 1902

"It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting."

Chet Huntley - December 10, 1911

"Good night, David."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - December 11, 1918

“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”

Edvard Munch - December 12, 1863

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

Ted Nugent - December 13, 1948

“Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.”

Nostradamus - December 14, 1503

“After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen.”

Philip K. Dick - Dec. 16th, 1928

This has been a story about people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. I loved them all. Here is a list, to whom I dedicate my love:
To Gaylene, deceased
To Ray, deceased
To Francy, permanent psychosis
To Kathy, permanent brain damage
To Jim, deceased
To Val, massive permanent brain damage
To Nancy, permanent psychosis
To Joanne, permanent brain damage
To Maren, deceased
To Nick, deceased
To Terry, deceased
To Dennis, deceased
To Phil, permanent pancreatic damage
To Sue, permanent vascular damage
To Jerri, permanent psychosis and vascular damage
...and so forth
In memoriam. These were comrades whom I had; There are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The "enemy" was their mistake in playing. Let them play again, in some other way, and let them be happy.

Catherine of Aragon - December 16, 1485

"In this world I will confess myself to be the king's true wife, and in the next they will know how unreasonably I am afflicted."

Erskine Caldwell - December 17, 1903

"You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you..."

Destruction and Creation are imaginative enterprises, but pretty much all science can prove and not disprove the law of of the conservation of energy which is to say that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed but merely redistrubuted. That still allows for infinity of course! :)

i am forever enlightened...


Paul Klee - December 18, 1879

“The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen”

A painter may paint what He/She wishes to with whatever brushes are chosen in the moment. ~ mayflow in the approximate now.

Fritz Reiner - December 19, 1888

“Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance!”

Harvey S. Firestone - December 20, 1868

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

This is very befitting quote for today for me.

Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili - December 21, 1879

“A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.”

Giacomo Puccini - December 22, 1858

“Art is a kind of illness.”

Joseph Smith - December 23, 1805

“We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.”

Howard Hughes - December 24, 1905

“I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.”

Humphrey Bogart - December 25, 1899

“If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.”

Oh my, how the time flies. :)

Charles Babbage - December 26, 1791

“Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.”

Johannes Kepler - December 27, 1571

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

Hildegarde Kneff - December 28, 1925

“Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.”

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson - December 29, 1721

"Après nous, le déluge."

Rudyard Kipling - December 30, 1865

“Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”

Simon Wiesenthal - December 31, 1908

“None of my "clients" - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.”

Barry Goldwater - January 1, 1909

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

When all else fails, We can whip the horse's eyes, and make them sleep, and cry.

happy new year...