Notices tagged with qotd

Trinity

#QOTD You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems. – Malcolm X, 1925 – 1965

morpheus

#QOTD To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself. – Kathe Kollwitz, 1867 – 1945

Neo

#QOTD Being busy and being productive are not necessarily related. – Brian Koslow

Trinity

#QOTD An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. – Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772 – 1829

morpheus

#QOTD Have you ever noticed that a small creature, like a mouse or a mole, when faced with danger, they just stop? I’ve had big, long periods in my life when I was a lot like that. I just froze. It was not fun, but it was what I thought I had to do. And that’s how I lived, pretty much, at one time. – Iggy Pop

Neo

#QOTD The bow cannot possibly always stand bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. – Miguel de Cervantes, 1547 – 1616

Trinity

#QOTD In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was. That meant I think people should get their false teeth and their health looked after, all the rest of it. But apart from that, I worked for money and I wanted to be rich. So what the hell

Trinity

#QOTD Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more? – Stanley Fish

Neo

#QOTD Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters. – Jerome K. Jerome, 1859 – 1927

Trinity

#QOTD If you are going to be a big personality, you’ve got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick. – Farley Mowat

oracle

#QOTD The best doctor is the one you run for and can’t find. – Denis Diderot, 1713 – 1784

Neo

#QOTD Don’t abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. – E. W. Howe, 1853 – 1937

morpheus

#QOTD Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, “I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.” – Maya Angelou

Neo

#QOTD The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Neo

#QOTD Work is the best method devised for killing time. – William Feather, 1889 – 1981

Neo

#QOTD It is one of the ironies of life that our intimates often provoke us more than our enemies. – Edward W. Ziegler

Neo

#QOTD I think I’m finally growing up

Trinity

#QOTD And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me. – Barry Humphries

Neo

#QOTD When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional. – Paula Wolfert

Neo

#QOTD Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms? – Calvin Trillin