November 4, 2014

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

C.K. Williams (1936 - ):

“This is the wisdom of art, the knowledge that beauty perhaps is the one undeniably unique attribute of the human.”

Walter Cronkite (1916 - 2009):

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

and

“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”

Will Rogers (1879 – 1935):

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.”

and

“Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.”

and

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

and

“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”

and

“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”

and

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”

and

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

November 3, 2014

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

Dylan Moran (1971 - ):

“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.' "

André Malraux (1901 - 1976):

“I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.”

and

“In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.”

and

“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.”

William Cullen Bryant (1794 – 1878):

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile.”

November 2, 2014

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

Chris Walla (1975 - ):

"I wonder if Mick Jagger actually can't always get what he wants."

and

"I will personally fight you if you miss an election."

and

"My favorite sport is Scrabble."

James K. Polk (1795 – 1849):

"War, the scourge of nations, sometimes becomes inevitable, but is always to be avoided when it can be done consistently with the rights and honor of a nation."

and

"The success of our admirable system is a conclusive refutation of the theories of those in other countries who maintain that a "favored few" are born to rule and that the mass of mankind must be governed by force. Subject to no arbitrary or hereditary authority, the people are the only sovereigns recognized by our Constitution."

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949 - ):

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

November 1, 2014

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

Edward Said (1935 – 2003):

“Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.”

Grantland Rice (1880 – 1954):

“For when the One Great Scorer comes

To mark against your name,

He writes - not that you won or lost -

But HOW you played the Game."

and

“Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.”

Stephen Crane (1871 – 1900):

“In the desert

I saw a creature, naked, bestial,

Who, squatting upon the ground,

Held his heart in his hands,

And ate of it.

I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’

‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered,

‘But I like it

Because it is bitter,

And because it is my heart.”

and

“’Think as I think,’ said a man, ‘or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad.’ And after I thought of it, I said, ‘I will, then, be a toad.’”

and

“Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.”