Sunday, December 21, 2014

December 21, 2014

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



Frank Zappa (1940 – 1993):
“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”




Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881):
“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”




Gustave Kahn (1859 – 1936):
"Why pick at old wounds?
It was so long ago.
All is well finished that causes
Remembrances of spring.

Why dwell on the past?
But your heart betrays
That other old regret
Of fond times with another."




Rebecca West (1892 – 1983):
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”

and
“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”

and
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

and
“There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.”




Anthony Powell (1905 – 2000):
“Books do furnish a room.”

and
“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”




Paul Revere (1734 – 1818):

Paul Revere never shouted the legendary phrase later attributed to him (“The British are coming!”) as he passed from town to town. The operation was meant to be conducted as discreetly as possible since scores of British troops were hiding out in the Massachusetts countryside. Furthermore, colonial Americans at that time still considered themselves British; if anything, Revere may have told other rebels that the “Regulars”—a term used to designate British soldiers—were on the move.



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