January 31, 2011

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - and can't be restored.

- Mark Twain

January 30, 2011

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

- John Updike

January 29, 2011

"Pale January lay
In its cradle day by day
Dead or living, hard to say.

- Alfred Austin, Primroses

January 28, 2011

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

- Proverb

January 27, 2011

See the pretty snowflakes
Falling from the sky;
On the wall and housetops
Soft and thick they lie.

On the window ledges,
On the branches bare;
Now how fast they gather,
Filling all the air.

Look into the garden,
Where the grass was green;
Covered by the snowflakes,
Not a blade is seen.

- Author Unknown, Falling Snow

January 26, 2011

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.

- Karl Reiland

January 25, 2011

Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down
and almost die in the cold season. Let it be the way it is. The magic is there in its power.

- Henry Mitchell

January 24, 2011

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

- Ray Bradbury

January 23, 2011

By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea!
You and me, you and me, oh how happy we'll be!

- "By the Beautiful Sea" by Harold Atteridge & Harry Carroll

January 22, 2011

A Long Time ago..... you were born.

- Birthday Card given to my father

Happy Birthday's Mom and Dad

January 21, 2011

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

- E. E. Cummings

January 20, 2011

"Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey,
and enjoy every idle hour.

- John Boswell

January 19, 2011

Ice
on the earth, bitter
black frost, and a winding sheet of snow
upon her withered breast, and
deep within me, dread
and ice.

- Jessica MacBeth, Winter Poems, Initiation

January 18, 2011

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

- Satchel Paige, 1974

January 17, 2011

Candy is dandy
But liquor is quicker.

- Ogden Nash

January 16, 2011

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

- Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

January 15, 2011

Sam Beauregarde: What business are you in, Salt?
Mr. Salt: Nuts.

- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

January 14, 2011

We don't manage our time as well as we manage our space. There's an overhead of starting and an overhead of stopping a project because you kind of lose your momentum. And you've got to bracket and put aside all the things you're already doing. So you need reasonably large blocks of uninterrupted time if you're going to be successful at doing some of these things. That's why hackers tend to stay up late. If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy.

- Bill Joy

January 13, 2011

Of winter's lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer's secret
Deep down within its heart.

- Charles G. Stater

January 12, 2011

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.

- Bill Morgan, Jr.

January 11, 2011

A photograph is an opportunity to glimpse the interior of its creator. It is an opinion based on what was going on inside the photographer at the time the shutter was released. Look back on the unfolding of any one of the great timeless artists—see the unique evolution of that person and their artwork as they created through the years. Then take a closer look at any given time—what are they saying now? Isn't that an opinion?

- Christine Burgoyne

January 10, 2011

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

- John Quincy Adams

January 09, 2011

The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn.

- Patricia Hampl

January 08, 2011

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk
beside the fire: it is the time for home.

- Edith Sitwell

January 07, 2011

Here, it's a candy cane. But don't stick it up your nose, it burns like hell.

- Family Guy