July 23, 2014

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

Raymond Chandler (1888 – 1959):

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”

and

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”

and

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

and

“Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.”

M.H. Abrams (1912 - ):

“We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.”

and

“It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.”

Pee Wee Reese (1918 – 1999):

Then There Was Silence

Stopping beside Jackie,

Pee Wee put his arm around

Jackie's shoulders.

An audible gasp rose up

from the crowd

when they saw

what Pee Wee had done.

Then there was silence.

Outlined on a sea of green grass

stood these two great athletes,

one black,

one white,

both wearing the same

team uniform.

"I am standing by him,"

Pee Wee Reese said to the world.

"This man is my teammate."

Hubert Selby, Jr. (1928 – 2004):

“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”

and

“Life was no longer something to endure, but to live.”