HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY
“God is Brazilian” “Making life worthwhile does not mean accumulating wealth or status but rather living with purpose, in balance. Life should be a stage for personal expression. May each of us find our own way to make life an honor.” Carlos Diegues Brazilian film director. “Xica da Silva”
SANITY is a handicap and liability if you’re living in a mad world.
I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense. Anthony Burgess
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling
RHYTHM IS THE LIFE OF SPACE OF TIME DANCED THROUGH. Cecil Taylor
18 OF THE GREATEST BASEBALL MANAGERS WERE ALCOHOLICS. NYT
EARL WEAVER: WE’VE CRAWLED OUT OF MORE COFFINS THAN BELA LUGOSI.
EBULLIENCE: The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings. EXUBERANCE
Martin Marty: “His wit was legendary. And his heart overflowed with simple human kindness.”
To remember oneself always and everywhere. the ultimate goal.
If your mind is conscious, it is magic; it is a miracle; it is a bridge to the beyond.
Sadhguru
James Christopher Harrison huge blood donor — 1,173 times — plasma contained rare antibody, anti-D used to make a medication for pregnant mothers. If people keep donating it was perhaps a sign “because then it means the world’s going
in the right place.”
IT IS HARD TO FREE FOOLS FROM THE CHAINS THEY REVERE. VOLTAIRE
THINK where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory’s I had such friends. William Butler Yeats
The idea of taking what people call the ‘entertainment culture’ as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life which is quite different from how to make a living. Neil Postman
WHILE WE’VE YOUTH IN OUR HEARTS WE CAN NEVER GROW OLD.
Oliver Wendell Holmes jr.
The day I die I want to have a black thumb from where I hit it with a hammer and scratches on my hands from pruning the roses. Joan Dye Gussow
It was reading and responding to William Faulkner that gave me mob first push toward the regional identity that I’ve stayed with ever since.
CREATIVITY IS VERY SELFISH. SCANDALOUSLY SO, IN FACT.
Athol Fugard
DIALOGUE IS LIKE JAZZ. DIAIALOGUE IS CREATIVE. Sam Shepard
I do what I like to call ‘book foreplay’ with all my new books. touch them, hold them in my hands. I like to spread them open and give a sniff. It’s magic.
Herman Graf
Paul Theroux called luxury the enemy of observation.
Graydon Carter editor of Vanity Fair labeled Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian.”
I invent because I cannot help it. New things just thrust themselves upon me.
Henry could see the finished product in he head, she said, “as clearly as you see a book or a picture or a flower held up before you.”
“I have come to believe in spirit control. and I’m sure that the ideas that flock into my mind in the early hours of the morning are messages from a guiding spirit.” Beulah Henry Woman with most patents
Kurt Vonnegut: “She was asked what she learned from the holocaust and she said 10 percent of any population is cruel no matter what and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what and the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.”