May 8, 2014

Good Morning!

Today is the birthday of Harry S. Truman (1884 – 1972) who said:

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

and

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

and

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”

It is also the birthday of Edmund Wilson (1895 – 1972) who said:

“No two persons ever read the same book.”

Happy Birthday to Saul Bass (1920 – 1996) who said:

“Design is thinking made visual.”

and

“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.”

Birthday greetings to David Attenborough (1926 - ) who said:

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

Today is the birthday of Gary Snyder (1930 - ) who said:

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

It is also the birthday of Thomas Pynchon (1937 - ) who said:

“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.”

and

“Keep cool but care”

And of Roddy Doyle (1958 - ) who said:

“The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.”

Today is the birthday of Naomi Klein (1970 - ) who said:

“Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”