November 30, 2008

Whenever it's just snow, you're usually OK if you drive slow. But anytime you add sleet or freezing rain into the mix, traction on your car goes to bust. It takes a lot longer to stop, and that's when we run into problems.

- Victor Cruz

November 29, 2008

This house is so full of people it makes me sick. When I grow up and get married, I'm living alone.

- Home Alone

November 29, 2008

Well, I can hear the whistle from a mile away,
It sounds so good
But I must stay away
That train is a beauty, makin' everybody stare
But its only destination is the middle of nowhere;

- Josh Turner, "Long Black Train"

November 27, 2008

The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up.

- Ted Allen

November 26, 2008

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

- Pearl Buck

November 25, 2008

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

- Charles Dickens

An old broom knows the dirty corners best.

- Irish Proverb

November 24, 2008

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

- Christopher Morley

November 23, 2008

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

- Spanish Proverb

November 22, 2008

I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.

- Sasha Azevedo

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

- Marcel Marceau

November 21, 2008

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

- Lin Yutang

November 20, 2008

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner.

- Lynda Montgomery

November 19, 2008

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.

- Eleanora Duse

November 18, 2008

What are men to rocks and mountains?

- Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

"Uh-oh."
"Don't tell me. We're about to go over a huge waterfall. "
"Yep. "
"Sharp rocks at the bottom? "
"Most likely."
"Bring it on."

- The Emperor's New Groove

my love is building a building
around you, a frail slippery
house, a strong fragile house
(beginning at the singular beginning
of your smile)a skilful uncouth
prison, a precise clumsy
prison(building thatandthis into Thus,
Around the reckless magic of your mouth)
my love is building a magic, a discrete
tower of magic and(as i guess)
when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall
crumble the mouth-flower fleet
He'll not my tower, laborious, casual
where the surrounded smile hangs breathless

- E.E. Cummings, "My Love is Building a Building"

November 17, 2008

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

- Bible

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

- William Feather

November 16, 2008

When it comes to skiing, there's a difference between what you think it's going to be like, what it's really like, and what you tell your friends it was like.

- Author Unknown

November 15, 2008

A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride.

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

November 14, 2008

So maybe you could walk with me a while
And maybe I could rest beneath your smile
Everybody stumbles sometimes and needs a hand to hold
'Cause it's a long trip alone...

- Dierks Bentley, "Long Trip Alone"

As soon as they close the door to the aircraft, that's when they begin the Safety Lecture. I love the safety lecture! This is my favorite part of the airplane ride! I listen very carefully to the safety lecture, especially that part where they teach us how to use the seatbelts! Imagine this: here we are, a plane full of grown human beings... many of us partially educated, and they're actually taking time out to describe the intricate workings of a belt buckle!

- George Carlin

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

- Ruth Westheimer

November 13, 2008

Oh, Gomez. It's dark, it's depressing, it's desolate.

- The Addams Family

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

- Edith Wharton

November 12, 2008

Oh Future! thou secreted peace
Or subterranean woe --
Is there no wandering route of grace
That leads away from thee --
No circuit sage of all the course
Descried by cunning Men
To balk thee of thy sacred Prey --
Advancing to thy Den --

- Emily Dickinson, "Oh Future! thou secreted peace"

November 11, 2008

I'd call it an organic hip-hop style, musically. Back in the late '80s and early '90s, people sampled a lot, and because of that these records had a feel. They weren't recorded in a computer with a click track. . . . When I was approaching this record, what I wanted to do was try and get back to that, but I write music, I play music, so I wanted to write every note, record every note and play every note, and get that kind of hand-played feel.

- Mike Shinoda

November 10, 2008

Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there's a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

- Angels in America

November 09, 2008

What did we do before Red Bull?

- Jim Baxter

November 08, 2008

We could learn a lot from a box of crayons:some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors… but they have all learned to live in the same box.

- Anonymous

November 07, 2008

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

- William Shakespeare, As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139–143

November 06, 2008

Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared.

- Robbins B. Stoeckel

November 05, 2008

It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log But when I get home to you I find the things that you do Will make me feel alright.

- The Beatles, "Hard Day's Night"

November 04, 2008

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age.

- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964

November 03, 2008

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.

- American Beauty

November 02, 2008

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

- Cyril Connolly

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.

- Willa Sibert Carther

November 01, 2008

On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park....

- Nicholas Gordon