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October 26, 2007

The Bard, and Quoting the Alphabet

Work continues on updates to the quotations collection. Shakespeare has been expanded and updated to the new format. I’ve also been working on the Alphabetical by Author collection (#17), which will also have a new format, and substantial additional entries. Over 600 new quotes have been added to W through Z already. As always, these cover a WIDE range of material, from historical to humor, music to marketing, etc.

My goal is to get the Alpha collection substantially done before the holidays. Next year’s emphasis will be on expanding and updating the poetry collection, and finding a better format for Universe. I continue to receive inputs from contemporary poets and need to find a better way to handle the material, most of which has not been put online. There are also some photo additions planned for the near future.

For now, a sampling of added material:

True is it that we have seen better days.

--William Shakespeare, As You Like It
     Act II, scene vii, line 126 [Duke Senior]

I do desire we may be better strangers.

--William Shakespeare, As You Like It
     Act III, scene ii, line 98 [Orlando]

If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink,
Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.

--William Shakespeare,  The Comedy of Errors
     Act III, scene i, lines 15-16 [Dromio of Ephesus]

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

--William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
     Act III, scene i, line 158

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary.

--Malcolm X [1962]

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

--Israel Zangwill [from The Melting Pot]

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

--Frank Zappa

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

--William Butler Yeats

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?

--Alice Walker

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

--Barbara Walters

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions on what to paint. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, "Well, what do you love most?" That's how I started painting money.

--Andy Warhol

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.

--George Washington [1873]

When I grow up, I'm not going to read the newspaper and I'm not going to follow complex issues and I'm not going to vote. That way I can complain when the government doesn't represent me. Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn't work and justify my further lack of participation. – Calvin

--Bill Waterson

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September 25, 2007

A Quotations Update

The updating process continues, with about half of the Quotations collection now converted to the new format. Among the newly updated areas are Quotations from Poetry, (#12), Malapropisms (#8) and Quotations by Women (#9).

Here’s a smattering.

--Steve

Sit at the western window. Take the sun
Between your hands like a ball of flaming crystal,
Poise it to let it fall, but hold it still,
And meditate on the beauty of your existence;
The beauty of this, that you exist at all.
   Conrad Aiken, Chiarascuro: Rose

Water, water, everywhere,
   Nor any drop to drink.
   Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, II, Verse 9

The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
   T. S. Eliot, Preludes, IV, 15-16

For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devil's tunes
Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.
   Ernest Hemingway, [Chapter Heading, 1923]

Patience is a plant
That grows not in all gardens.
   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, Part ii

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
   Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road

Learn to live, and live to learn,
Ignorance like a fire doth burn,
Little tasks make large return.
   Bayard Taylor, To My Daughter

 I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams...
   William Butler Yeats, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

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American is a very difficult language mixed with English.
  -- Anonymous

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last chapter missing.
  --Quentin Crisp

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
  --Joan Gussow, 1986

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The records do not show that Adam and Eve were married.
  -- Ed Howe

Moral indignation is, in most cases, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
  --Vittorio de Sica

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
  --Mark Twain

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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I'm having a good time.
  Lady Nancy Astor

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
  Agatha Christie

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their finest hour.
  Lillian Hellman

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their finest hour.   Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.
  Rebecca Richards

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September 15, 2007

This Just In.....

The Quotations Home Page has just received a substantial update. The major reference pages have been updated and a new file format with improved readability has been introduced. This format is on alll of the index pages, as well as every page that has been updated (u) recently.

 Along with the format update (the first in six years), collection # 27, African American Expression, has been substantially enlarged to over 600 entries.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
--Marian Wright Edelman, 1992

It is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn't have this and I didn't have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered.
--Marian Anderson, 1956

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
--James Baldwin, 1962

 Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
--Althea Gibson

In the beginning there was neither nothing nor anything. Darkness hid in darkness -- shrouded in nothingness.
  -- Zora Neal Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain 1939

 What Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky does not add up to Bush lying to the world, saying, Let's invade Iraq because they've got weapons of mass destruction. It just doesn't add up. The man cheated on his wife, but nobody died. Americans are not coming home in body bags because of that.
--Spike Lee

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
--Charlie Parker

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
--Charley Pride

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
--Jackie Robinson

Wishing, of all strategies, is the worst.
  --Andrew Young

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August 30, 2007

Morley's Domestic Poetry

Recently I mentioned Christopher Morley. His name may remind you a little of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Jacob Marley) or of a Conan Doyle adventure (Holmes’ nemesis James Moriarty). On that second count, you might not be too far off. Morley was a BIG Sherlock Holmes fan.

Morley was many things, chief among them, like Adams, he was a columnist, writing The Bowling Green for many years with humor, insight, and everyman-ish viewpoint that makes pleasant reading 80 years later. Though I doubt many employers, then or now, would appreciate his version of the Algonquin round table, the self-titled “Three Hours for Lunch Club”.

He was a prolific writer, putting out over 50 books of humor, fiction, essays and poetry. Several of his books, including Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Library are available on Project Guttenburg. 

Another of his projects was editing not one, but two editions of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Morley himself, like his very good friend Don Marquis (another humorist, columnist, and frequent poet), is himself quite quotable for his wit and opinions on a wide variety of issues. Here's a sampling from The Quotations Home Page and other sources:

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

 “A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.”  -- from Parnassus on Wheels, (1917)

 “Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. “ 

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does. “ 

“People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.”

"It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way."   --from The Haunted Bookshop (1919)

“Only the sinner has a right to preach”

“My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed. “ 

“Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.”

“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.” 

“We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort”


“We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up”


“From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.”

 “Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age.”

While Morley was a Rhodes Scholar who studied History at Oxford, he was also an everyday pedestrian, working in New York and commuting by train to his suburban home on Long Island. He was happily married, and like Adams, could write easily about everything from the milkman to the high price of coal, from washing the dishes to making the last payment on his mortgage.

These pieces on early marriage, parenthood, and domestic life were collected in thee volumes, then anthologized in a volume called Chimneysmoke, published in 1921.  When one of those volumes was published, a critic complained the content "was very domestic" (i.e. too much about 'household' rather than 'important' things). Had the critic been married a few years, he may have made the same comment, but meant something else entirely. Here are some excerpts of Chimneysmoke from Poets’ Corner.

 

Dedication for a Fireplace

THIS hearth was built for thy delight,

For thee the logs were sawn,

For thee the largest chair, at night,

Is to the chimney drawn.

For thee, dear lass, the match was lit

To yield the ruddy blaze--

May Jack Frost give us joy of it

For many, many days.

Christopher Morley

 

To A Child

THE greatest poem ever known

Is one all poets have outgrown:

The poetry, innate, untold,

Of being only four years old.

Still young enough to be a part

Of Nature's great impulsive heart,

Born comrade of bird, beast, and tree

And unselfconscious as the bee--

And yet with lovely reason skilled

Each day new paradise to build;

Elate explorer of each sense,

Without dismay, without pretense!

In your unstained transparent eyes

There is no conscience, no surprise:

Life's queer conundrums you accept,

Your strange divinity still kept.

Being, that now absorbs you, all

Harmonious, unit, integral,

Will shred into perplexing bits,--

Oh, contradictions of the wits!

And Life, that sets all things in rhyme,

may make you poet, too, in time--

But there were days, O tender elf,

When you were Poetry itself!

Christopher Morley

 

Burning Leaves, November

THESE are the folios of April,

All the library of spring,

Missals gilt and rubricated

With the frost's illumining.

Ruthless, we destroy these treasures,

Set the torch with hand profane--

Gone, like Alexandrian vellums,

Like the books of burnt Louvain!

Yet these classics are immortal:

O collectors, have no fear,

For the publisher will issue

New editions every year.

Christopher Morley

 

The Music Box

AT six--long ere the wintry dawn--

There sounded through the silent hall

To where I lay, with blankets drawn

Above my ears, a plaintive call.

The Urchin, in the eagerness

Of three years old, could not refrain;

Awake, he straightway yearned to dress

And frolic with his clockwork train.

I heard him with a sullen shock.

His sister, by her usual plan,

Had piped us aft at 3 o'clock--

I vowed to quench the little man.

I leaned above him, somewhat stern,

And spoke, I fear, with emphasis--

Ah, how much better, parents learn,

To seal one's sensure with a kiss!

Again the house was dark and still,

Again I lay in slumber's snare,

When down the hall I heard a trill,

A tiny, tinkling, tuneful air--

His music-box! His best-loved toy,

His crib companion every night;

And now he turned to it for joy

While waiting for the lagging light.

How clear, and how absurdly sad

Those tingling pricks of sound unrolled;

They chirped and quavered, as the lad

His lonely little heart consoled.

Columbia, the Ocean's Gem--

(Its only tune) shrilled sweet and faint.

He cranked the chimes, admiring them,

In vigil gay, without complaint.

            The treble music piped and stirred,

The leaping air that was his bliss;

And, as I most contritely heard,

I thanked the all-unconscious Swiss!

The needled jets of melody

Rang slowlier and died away--

The Urchin slept; and it was I

Who lay and waited for the day.

Christopher Morley

 

All for now,

 

--Steve

 

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July 02, 2007

(Still at the Movies)

I’m continuing to wade through The Movies, hoping to get finished with this by Mid-July and start on something else. Movies are now complete through ‘L’ (1,152 entries).

--Steve

Another sampling:

There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
  Steve Martin as Harris in L.A. Story

Ain't it a shame how some of God's children have it so easy, while others have it so hard?
  Paulene Myers as Mrs. Edson in Lady Sings the Blues

This is the nineties. You don't just go around punching people. You have to say something cool first.
  Bruce Willis as Joe Hallenbeck in The Last Boy Scout

A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
  Claude Rains as Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia

Take me home momma and put me to bed. I have seen enough to know I have seen too much.
  David L. Lander as Radio Sportscaster in A League of their Own

A man, he gives wood, bricks. In time, what does he get? A chapel - a place where his children can receive the sacraments. To these men, for their children to have faith, it is important. To me, it is insurance. To me, life is here on this earth. I cannot see further, so I cannot believe further. But, if they are right about the hereafter, I have paid my insurance, Senor.
  Stanley Adams as Juan in Lilies of the Field

His destructive programming is taking effect. He will be irresistibly drawn to large cities, where he will back up sewers, reverse street signs, and steal everyone's left shoe.
  David Ogden Stiers as Jumba in Lilo & Stitch

I was feeling tight in the shoulders and neck, so I called down and had a Shiatsu massage in my room. And the tightness has completely disappeared and been replaced by unbelievable pain.
  Bill Murray as Bob in Lost in Translation

The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.
  Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

Twenty-six years buried in the deepest, darkest jungle and I still became my father.
  Robin Williams as Alan Parrish from Jumanji

Ian: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs...
Ellie: Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth...
  Jeff Goldblum / Laura Dern as Dr. Ian Malcolm / Dr. Ellie Sattler from Jurassic Park

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May 20, 2007

At the Movies

Well, it's been a busy month, as the school year and related activities draw to a close. We're looking forward to that brief sliver of time between the end of school and the beginning of hurricane season. This is also the time of the year that used to be referred to as the "Summer Blockbuster Movie Season", but is nowadays referred to as the "Sequel Season.

More-or-less on-topic, I'm almost a third of the way through another of the Quotations Collections, # 28, From the Movies. This is a significant upgrade, with over 400 new quotes added so far. The content is a combination of aphorisms, well-remembered lines, and quotes that are indicative of the theme of each film. Movies from A through G have been completed. Here is a sampling

History is-a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
  John Lithgow as Lord John Whorfin in The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai (1984)

 When you're a secretary in a brewery, it's pretty hard to make-believe you're anything else. Everything is beer.
  Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950)

Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that. I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.
  Robert Duval as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979)

Fish all bathe together. Though they do tend to eat one another. I often think fish must get awful tired of sea food.
  Dudley Moore as Arthur Bach in Arthur (1981)

I beg you to accept that there is no people on Earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power.
  Ben Kingsley as Gandhi in Gandhi (1982)

I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots both of us. Selfish and shrewd but able to look things in the eye and call them by their right name.
  Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind (1939)

Come on, all the long distance lines are down? What about satellite? Is it snowing in space? Don't you keep open a line for emergencies or for celebrities? I'm both. I'm a celebrity in an emergency.
  Bill Murray as Phil in Groundhog Day (1993)

Vodka is a luxury we have. Caviar is a luxury we have. Time is not.
  Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev in Enemy at the Gates (2001)

There is no escape from the Caine, save death. We're all doing penance, sentenced to an outcast ship, manned by outcasts, and named after the greatest outcast of them all.
  Fred MacMurray as Lt. Tom Keefer in The Caine Mutiny (1954)

I am the most renowned killer of fish in the whole United States Army Air Force.
  Alan Arkin as Capt. John Yossarian in Catch-22 (1970)

In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
  Jean Shepherd as narrator (Ralphie as an adult) in A Christmas Story (1983)

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
  Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society (1989)

 

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April 20, 2007

Proverbially Speaking

Quotations #5 and #7 

Continuing with the overhall, the two collections of proverbs have been expanded and re-scripted. with about 100 new additions.

 Collection #5, Proverbial Wisdom, contains collected proverbs from around the world. These include some nicely phrased metaphors, a variety of wide ranging advice, and some with modern-day realism. A sampling is included below.

Collection #7, Annoying Proverbs, contains a list of phrases that, if you grew up in the U.S. or many other english-speaking locales, are 'annoyingly' familiar, as they have been used ad nauseum and parodied to even futher nauseum. I have NOT included any of these because they may already be part of your collective subconscious. You'll thank me later.

--Steve 

The constitution is paper, bayonets are steel. (Konstitisyon se papie, bayonet se fe.)
  Haitian Proverb

Flies know well the sweet seller's beard.
  Lebanese Proverb

If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.
  Arab Proverb

June is too early and July is too late -- for summer.
  Siberian Saying

Little men are fond of long titles.
  German Proverb

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
   Hindu Proverb

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April 15, 2007

Worth a Thousand Words?

Quotations #10: Random Visions

Continuing with the revision process, Quotation collection # 10 has been completely updated. In a sense, this is the smallest collection in terms of entries. However, it combines original images with advice and aphorisms from across the Quotations collection.

This also cleans up one of the few areas of material where the source of the original data was unclear. These images are all from TheOtherPages contributors and are of much larger size and quality. So have a browse, and be inspired, forewarned, or whatever.

Two down, twenty-eight to go. Heu. 

 --Steve

 

 

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April 11, 2007

Getting off to a Good Start

Quotations # 26: Good Starts

I've begun the incredibly laborious process of updating the quotations collections (all 30 of them). I decided to start with #26 (don't ask me why).

 This is an interesting assortment of the opening lines from various stories, with the title, author and date information. It is a great study in contrasts, and an amusing read if you are familiar with the styles of some of the authors.

 I've added another 64 to bring the total to 255. some samples are included below:

 -- Steve

The storm came up out of the southwest like a fiend, stalking its prey on legs of lightning.
  --Abarat, by Clive Barker, 2002

The customs agent spent more time than usual examining the sword that my wife had brought into the country and then asked what we intended to do with it.
  --The Pilgrimage, by Paul Coelho (English Translation), 1992

In the end, write it down.
  --Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher, 2001

"The cow is there," said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet.
  --The Longest Journey, by E.M. Forster, 1907

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
  --The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin, 1969

It happened many years ago, before the traders and missionaries first came into the South Seas, while the Polynesians were still great in numbers and fierce of heart.
  --Call it Courage, by Armstrong Sperry, 1940

Lee Chong's grocery, while not a model of neatness, was a miracle of supply.
  --Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck, 1945

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January 25, 2007

Random Quotations Again, and a few Miracles

 

Random quotes, along with some  quotes on Miracles, some taken from a 2005 article in Forbes:


 Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. --Pablo Picasso

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. - Dick Vermeil


It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired. -- Robert Strauss 


You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, Each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. -- Paulo Coelho

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. --C. S. Lewis

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. -- Orson Scott Card 

 Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. --Walt Whitman

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. - Gore Vidal

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.....  --Bill Cosby

 There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles. -- John Donne

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.  -- Bernard Berenson

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.  -- Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? --George Carlin

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. -- G.K. Chesterton

Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant. -- Yiddish Proverb

 

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October 06, 2006

Random Quotations

Fri, October  6th, 2006

 In no particular order, and with no intended agenda, some random additions to the quotation collection:  --Steve

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph (In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat), Nez Perce (1840-1904)

Having him in Iraq was hard enough. When he got hurt, I said, 'well, at least he can come home now, and get better here with us.' But it's this strange thing. He came home, but he's not home at all."
PENNY ELLIOTT, wife of a National Guard sergeant injured in Iraq, New York Times online edition, 25-Oct-2004.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
--Buckminster Fuller

Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
-- Meg Chittenden

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change; but that they build a nest in your hair, this you can prevent.
--Chinese Proverb

If film is a director's medium, and television drama is a writer's medium, reality TV is without question a casting director's medium.
ROBERT J. THOMPSON, Professor of Television and Pop Culture at Syracuse University, NY Times online edition, 28-March-2004.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
-- Miguel de Cervantes


Never a lip is curved with pain
That can’t be kissed into smiles again.
--Bret Harte

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard, but it is the only way.
--Barbara Bush

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