Album Anniversary - August 31

Today is the 10th Anniversary of "Leviathan," the second album from Mastodon.

August 31, 2014

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

Maria Montessori (1870 – 1952):

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”

and

“Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.”

and

“It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.”

and

“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”

William Saroyan (1908 – 1981):

“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

and

“It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.”

Daniel Schorr (1916 – 2010):

“I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.”

Eldridge Cleaver (1935 – 1998):

“If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.”

and

“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”

Van Morrison (1945 - ):

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”

Album Anniversary - August 30

Today is the 20th Anniversary of "Definitely Maybe," the debut album from Oasis.

August 30, 2014

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

Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851):

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

and

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

Lewis Black (1948 - ):

“Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.”

Molly Ivins (1944 – 2007):

“The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.”

and

“So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds,

but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Be outrageous... rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through celebrating the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was!”

Warren Buffett (1930 - ):

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

and

“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”

August 29, 2014

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John Locke (1632 – 1704):

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

and

“The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”

Thom Gunn (1929 – 2004):

“Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.”

August 28, 2014

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

Robertson Davies (1913 – 1995):

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”

and

“To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.”

Jack Vance (1916 – 2013):

“Good music always defeats bad luck.”

Rita Dove (1952 - ):

“From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.”

and

“If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.”