Wednesday, January 14, 2015

January 14, 2015

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



John Dos Passos (1896 -1970):
“We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.”

and
“A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts...”




Yukio Mishima (1925 – 1970):
“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”

and
“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”

and
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”




Taylor Branch (1947 - ):
“The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.”




Maureen Dowd (1952 - ):
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

and
“Women can stand on the Empire State Building and scream to the heavens that they are equal to men and liberated, but until they have the same anatomy, it's a lie. It's more of a man's world today than ever. Men can eat their cake in unlimited bakeries.”




Anchee Min (1957 - ):
“lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.”




Dave Grohl (1969 - ):

“Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.”





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