Album Anniversary - August 27

Today is the 30th Anniversary of Depeche Mode's fourth album, "Some Great Reward."

August 27, 2014

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

Theodore Dreiser (1871 – 1945):

“Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.”

and

“The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.”

and

“When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.”

C.S. Forester (1899 – 1966):

“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 – 1973):

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

and

“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”

and

“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”

and

“[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.”

Ira Levin (1929 – 2007):

“Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler”

Jeanette Winterson (1959 - ):

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”

and

“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”

August 26, 2014

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

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 – 1918):

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

and

“Come to the edge," he said.

They said, "We are afraid."

Come to the edge," he said.

They came.

He pushed them...and they flew.”

and

“Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.”

Christopher Isherwood (1904 – 1986):

“The past is just something that's over.”

and

“One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.”

Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997):

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.”

and

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

and

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

and

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

Julio Cortázar (1914 – 1984):

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”

and

“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the opposite. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.”

Shirley Manson (1966 - ):

“The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.”

August 25, 2014

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

Bret Harte (1836 – 1902):

“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”

and

“If, of all words of tongue and pen,

The saddest are, 'It might have been,'

More sad are these we daily see:

'It is, but hadn't ought to be.”

Walt Kelly (1913 – 1973):

“We have met the enemy and he is us.”

and

“Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.” 

and

“In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle.”

and

“If you can't win, don't join them; learn how to lose.”

Martin Amis (1949 - ):

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”

and

“We all have names we don't know about.”

Elvis Costello (1954 - ):

“Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?”

and

“It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.”

and

“But it's easier to say 'I love you',

than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.”

and

“I wish you luck with a capital "F".”

Jeff Tweedy (1967 - ):

“You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.”

and

“she's a jar with a heavy lid

my pop-quiz kid

a sleepy kisser, a pretty war

you know she begs me not to miss her”