June 4, 2015

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

Val McDermid (1955 - ):

“A society gets the criminals it deserves.”

and

“That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.”

Russell Brand (1975 - ):

“It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you. No one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.”

and

“For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.”

Angelina Jolie (1975 - ):

“I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.”

and

“We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

Album Anniversary - June 3, 2015

Today is the 30th anniversary of Boys and Girls, the sixth album from Bryan Ferry.

Video: "Slave to Love"

June 3, 2015

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

Sydney Smith (1771 – 1845):

“Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies, and to their exquisite nonsense…till death stares them in the face.”

Josephine Baker (1906 – 1975):

“The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.”

and

“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”

Allen Ginsberg (1926 – 1997):

“The weight of the world is love.

Under the burden of solitude,

under the burden of dissatisfaction

the weight, the weight we carry is love.”

and

“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”

and

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930 – 1999):

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”

Larry McMurtry (1936 - ):

“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”

and

“The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”

Curtis Mayfield (1942 – 1999):

“Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'”

June 2, 2015

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

Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1942):

“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”

Dorothy West (1907 – 1998):

“He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger.”

Norton Juster (1929 - ):

“Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.”

June 1, 2015

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

Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962):

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

and

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

and

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”

Amy Schumer (1981 - ):

“I am a woman with thoughts and questions and [stuff] to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story — I will. I will speak and share… and love and I will never apologize to the frightened millions who resent that they never had it in them to do it. I stand here and I am amazing, for you. Not because of you. I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you.”

Alanis Morissette (1974 - ):

“When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.”