Thursday, January 24, 2008

Radio Damatist Wisdom

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. – Douglas Adams

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Artist Wisdom

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Comedic Actor Wisdom

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people – W. C. Fields

Monday, January 21, 2008

"Totally Unique Thoughts" Wisdom

"A goal or a dream that doesn't challenge the dreamer to become more than they've ever been, to go where they've never gone, or to feel things they've never felt, is actually like wishing for a giant "life snooze button.". Mike Dooley

Friday, January 18, 2008

Entertainer Wisdom

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life - Cher

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Comedic Wisdom

It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like – Jackie Mason

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Unknown Wisdom

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity - Unknown

Monday, January 14, 2008

Animators Wisdom

I just realized that there’s going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way – Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Friday, January 11, 2008

Astronomer & Astrochemist Wisdom

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. – Carl Sagan

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Educator Wisdom

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present. – Stephen Covey

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

American Author Wisdom

"The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses." - Erica Jong

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

American Poet Wisdom

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work – Robert Frost

Monday, January 07, 2008

Novelist Wisdom

The purpose of life is to fight maturity. – Dick Werthimer

Friday, January 04, 2008

Orwellian Wisdom

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. – George Orwell

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Comedic Wisdom

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling. – Paul Poundstone

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Earl of Orford Wisdom

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. – Horace Walpole

Friday, December 21, 2007

Deacon Wisdom

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness. And the serious look may be the sover veil that covers a divine peace and joy. – Edward Chapin

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Mathemetician Wisdom

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind geometry. – Martin Gardner

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Hierarchiologist Wisdom

Everyone rises to their own level of incompetence. Laurence J Peter

Monday, December 17, 2007

Marketer Wisdom

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. – E. Joseph Cossman

Friday, December 14, 2007

Science Fiction Wisdom

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power – David Brin

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Canadian Novelist Wisdom

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Comedic Wisdom

You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. – George Burns

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Theoretical Physicist Wisdom

If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day. – John A. Wheeler

Monday, December 10, 2007

Essayist Wisdom

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being unjust – E. B. White

Friday, December 07, 2007

Writer Wisdom

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night – Edgar Allan Poe

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Management Consultant Wisdom

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Writer Wisdom

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. – Bonnie Friedman

Saturday, December 01, 2007

Friday, November 30, 2007

American Comedienne Wisdom

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity - Gilda Radner

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Radio Host Wisdom

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart. – Fred Allen

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Cowboy Wisdom

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Comedic Wisdom

Hello Seeker!
Now don’t feel alone here in the New Age because there’s a seeker born every minute! –
Firesign Theatre

Monday, November 26, 2007

TV Show Host Wisdom

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so…we’re in big trouble. – Ellen DeGeneres

Friday, November 23, 2007

Sexual Therapist Wisdom

What we call “Progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance – Havelock Ellis

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Roman Statesman Wisdom

Friendships make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Computer Scientist Wisdom

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Media Executive Wisdom

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. – Robert W Sarnoff

Monday, November 19, 2007

Novelist Wisdom

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager”. William S Burroughs

Friday, November 16, 2007

Cartoonist Wisdom

Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? – George Price

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Zen Wisdom

Before enlightenment,

I chopped wood and carried water.

After enlightenment,

I chopped wood and carried water.

-Zen saying

Journalistic Wisdom

All animals are equal….but some animals are more equal than others – George Orwell

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Jazz Artist Wisdom

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don’t, you’re simply ducking your responsibilities. – Ann Richards

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Expressionis Artist Wisdom

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time – Willem de Kooning

Monday, November 12, 2007

Writer Wisdom

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life – Cynthia Ozick

Friday, November 09, 2007

Motivational Speaker Wisdom

Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced…an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. – Meladee McCarty

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Irish Playwrite Wisdom

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution – Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

French Author Wisdom

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in streets and to steal bread. – Anatole France

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Unknown Wisdom

My Karma ran over your dogma - Unknown

Monday, November 05, 2007

Welsh Poet Wisdom

Someone’s boring me. I think it’s me. – Dylan Thomas

Friday, November 02, 2007

Writer Wisdom

Never explain…..your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway – Elbert Hubbard

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Physicist Wisdom

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the US National deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. – Richard Feynman

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Halloween Wisdom

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.
~Joel Benton

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Comedic Wisdom

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing – Redd Foxx

Monday, October 29, 2007

Modernist Wisdom

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ~ Katherine Mansfield

Friday, October 26, 2007

Novelist Wisdom

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. – Charles Dickens

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Comedic Wisdom

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.- Jonathan Winters

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Satirist Wisdom

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story about how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than the future. – Chuck Palahniuk

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Foster's Law

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders – Foster’s Law

Monday, October 22, 2007

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say. – Marshall McLuhan

Friday, October 19, 2007

Painter Wisdom

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.- Henry Miller

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Comedic Wisdom

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. – Billy Vaughan

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

French Author Wisdom

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. – Jules Renard

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Italian Philosopher Wisdom..

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else – Umberto Eco

Monday, October 15, 2007

Friendship Wisdom

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move the body. - Anonymous

Friday, October 12, 2007

Roman Wisdom

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Philosophical Wisdom

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments – Friedrich Neitzsche

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Submariner Wisdom

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. The must be driven into practice with courageous patience. Hyman Rickover

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Jazz Musician Wisdom

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions,intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find...that truth is basically simple - and feels good, clean and right. - Chick Corea (1941-) American Jazz Musician

Friday, October 05, 2007

Ancient Roman Wisdom

From the end spring new beginnings - Pliny the Elder

Thursday, October 04, 2007

American Writer Wisdom...

Genius may have it’s limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped – Elbert Hubbard

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Academy Award Winning Actor Wisdom

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. - Peter Ustinov

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Presidential Wisdom

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. Woodrow Wilson

Friday, September 28, 2007

Biker Wisdom...

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved - anonymous

Thursday, September 27, 2007

First Lady Wisdome

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water! Eleanor Roosevelt

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Race Car Driver Wisdom

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Ancient Wisdom

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. - Dandemis

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Scottish Wisdom

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us - Alexander Graham Bell

Friday, September 21, 2007

Race Car Driver Wisdom

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience - Doug Larson

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Chinese Philosopher Wisdom

There is no calmaity greater than lavish desires
There is no greater guilt than discontentment
And there is no greater disaster than greed.

Lao-tzu

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Spanish Wisdom

"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise." - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Shakespearian Wisdom

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind - William Shakespeare

Comedic Wisdom

Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing. - Michael Iapoce

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Journalistic Wisdom

Just because your voice reached halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reache only to the end of the bar. - Edward R Murrow

Monday, September 17, 2007

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Transcendental Wisdom

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? -- Henry David Thoreau

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Comedic Wisdom

"I’VE GIVEN UP on the whole human species. I think a big, good-sized comet is exactly what this species needs. You know, the poor dinosaurs were walking around eating leaves, and they were completely wiped out. Let the insects have a go. You know, I don’t think they’ll come up with sneakers with lights in them, or Dust Busters, or Salad Shooters, or snot candy. . . . I only wish there were some way I could live out on the moon and watch it all on CNN. . . I just want to describe the mess. But life is dual. If you scratch a cynic, you’ll find a disappointed idealist."-George Carlin, comedian, writer, The Progressive (July 2001)

Friday, September 07, 2007

Amazon Wisdom....

The only thing wrong with a perfect ride to work is that you end up at work.

Monday, September 03, 2007

just a quick note...

to let you all know
that I have tendinitis
and am trying to save my "posting time" for
when I'm at work....one does have to eat ya know....
I have every intention of being back when
working at the computer doesn't hurt...or hurts less

in the interim....here's a quote for you...

Life is like a rose . . . more exquisite and precious, when shared with others - Jane Oechsle Lauer

Friday, August 17, 2007

British Author Wisdom

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon - Susan Ertz

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Lithuanian Violinist Wisdom

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. - Jascha Heifetz

Monday, July 30, 2007

Holly daze...

Hello faithful readers.....

I'm leaving on the 2nd on holly daze
will be back on the 16th ish

so I'm giving myself a wee break to prepare
for the grand exit
and the even grander return....

stay tuned!
ya know I'm too mouthy to stay quiet for long
LoL

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Amazon Wisdom

Never pack a rain suit AND sunblock.
Murphy will get confused and make it snow. - Amazon Tee on the White Rhino

Friday, July 20, 2007

Scottish Novelist Wisdom

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant – Robert Louis Stevenson

Friday, July 13, 2007

French Fabulist Wisdom

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances - La Fontaine

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Irish Wisdom

All that is necesary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

German Philosopher Wisdom

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Friday, July 06, 2007

Countess of Westmoreland Wisdom

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are...you need one. - Jane Howard

Thursday, July 05, 2007

British Wisdom

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Caliph Wisdom

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn-Abi Talib