July 10, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943):

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”

and

“Of all things, I liked books best.”

and

“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”

Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922):

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

and

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”

John Wyndham (1903 – 1969):

“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”

David Brinkley (1920 – 2003):

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”

and

“The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”

Alice Munro (1931 - ):

“There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.”