Quotes

Happy birthday, Dizzy Gillespie

10.20.2010

There they go again. Google is appropriately saluting Dizzy Gillespie with another predictably cool doodle. “It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” – Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)

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Happy 70th Birthday, John Lennon

10.08.2010

Google is saluting John Lennon’s 70th with a rather cool music player Google Doodle that plays a 32-second clip of the classic song ‘Imagine’. Click today’s Google logo to check it out. “Everything is clearer when you’re in love.” – John Lennon

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Bam.

09.28.2010

“No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.” – Isaac Babel (1894-1940)

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Equinoxes and solstices

09.22.2010

Today’s the first day of Fall, my favorite season of the year. The autumnal equinox will be hitting us overnight. What’s the difference between an equinox and a solstice? The word “equinox” comes from Latin and means “equality of night and day.” Contrary to popular belief, the equinox does not last for 24 hours. It [...]

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Renounced muses

08.27.2010

“The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him; he does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ‘Wartime Writings 1939-1944′

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The Dumbing of America

08.11.2010

“Facebook, Target, poker, religion, food, sports, etcetera will not replace having a brain, people. We’re getting dumber and more ignorant by the day. Yeah, actually, I’m talking to you. Reading has declined not only among the poorly educated, according to a report last year by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1982, 82 percent [...]

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– END OF SIDE ONE –

08.01.2010

“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Off-the-nose

07.27.2010

“When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.” – Lewis Carroll

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The Artist’s Reward

12.16.2009

“That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.” – Ernest Hemingway

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Do you really know these words and phrases?

12.09.2009

From ProofreadNOW: We think it was Mark Twain who said, “Better to keep silent and let people just think you’re an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” That could be true in writing as well. Sometimes people write cute words and expressions but manage to bungle the spelling or the application. [...]

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Absurdity relieved

10.29.2009

“We tell ourselves stories in order to make sense of life. Narrative is reassuring. There are days when life is so absurd it’s crippling; nothing makes sense. But stories bring order to the absurdity. Relief is provided by the narrative’s beginning, middle, and end. Without an end, you have an obsession, a constant circling around [...]

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It

10.05.2009

“I’ve never had to choose a subject. My subjects choose me.” – Ernest Hemingway

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Because the latter must make sense.

09.09.2009

“Truth is stranger than fiction.” – Mark Twain

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Golden links

08.31.2009

“Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Scripted

08.24.2009

“There are no accidents.” – Pablo Picasso

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On genius

08.18.2009

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together make genius. Love, love, love. That is the soul of genius.” – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

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