August 31, 2010

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham

August 30, 2010

[Jesse checking out Brians' car] Not a bad way way to spend ten grand.

- Fast and the Furious

August 29, 2010

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

- Lao Tzu

August 28, 2010

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

- Charles Dickens

August 27, 2010

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.

- Emily Dickinson

August 26, 2010

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

- Tom Hopkins

August 25, 2010

This... is where I live. My mother decorated it. I don't do laundry, I buy new underwear. See, and uh, under the table? Six months of magazines I know I'll never read, but I won't throw out. I don't wash dishes, vacuum, or put the toilet paper on the holder. I hired a maid once, she ran away crying. Uh... the only things in my fridge are water, vodka, and diet soda. And I don't care, but you do. Still think living together is a good idea?

- Grey's Anatomy

August 24, 2010

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

- Betty Bender

August 23, 2010

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

August 22, 2010

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

August 21, 2010

That's not a duck, it's a... PELICAN.

- Finding Nemo

August 20, 2010

We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

- Erma Bombeck

August 19, 2010

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

- H.M. Tomlinson

August 18, 2010

For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.

- Eleanor Everet

August 17, 2010

A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for.

- John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic

August 16, 2010

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

- Joseph Joubert

August 15, 2010

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

August 14, 2010

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.

- Dutch Proverb

August 13, 2010

People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

- Author Unknown

August 12, 2010

No vacation goes unpunished.

- Karl Hakkarainen

August 11, 2010

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

- Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

August 10, 2010

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

- Robert Brault

August 09, 2010

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

August 08, 2010

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

- Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880

August 07, 2010

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.

- Author Unknown