August 19, 2014

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

Ogden Nash (1902 – 1971):

“LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE”

and

“Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”

Ring Lardner, Jr. (1915 – 2000):

“How can you write if you can't cry?”

Gene Roddenberry (1921 – 1991):

“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”

and

“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”

Frank McCourt (1930 – 2009):

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

and

“I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.”

and

“Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.”

Li-Young Lee (1957 - ):

“While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.”

and

“Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.”

Jonathan Coe (1961 - ):

“Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.”

and

“Yes - I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly.”