June 18, 2014

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

Roger Ebert (1942 – 2013):

“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.”

and

“Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.”

and

“What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.”

and

“The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.”

and

“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”

Paul McCartney (1942 - ):

“And, in the end

The love you take

is equal to the love you make.”

and

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

Richard Powers (1957 - ):

“Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.”

and

“When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.”

and

“Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.”