March 31, 2011

This solitary Tree! a living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.

- William Wordsworth, Yardley Oak

March 30, 2011

Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps.

- Author Unknown

March 29, 2011

“Because that’s what Hermione does” said Ron, shrugging. “When in doubt, go to the library.”

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets

March 28, 2011

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

- Buddha

March 27, 2011

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

March 26, 2011

Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, 'Don't worry Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.'

- Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

March 25, 2011

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

March 24, 2011

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

- Dr Laurence J. Peter

March 23, 2011

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

- Vince Lombardi

March 22, 2011

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

- Scott Hamilton

March 21, 2011

Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine, a bit of unscheduled plea.

- Anonymous

March 20, 2011

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

- Julia Ward Howe

March 19, 2011

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, It makes you lean....
Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

- Anonymous

March 18, 2011

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.

- Barbara Bloom

March 17, 2011

It was down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I.
Their armoured lines of marching men in squadrons passed me by.
No fife did hum nor battle drum did sound it's dread tattoo.
But the Angelus bell o'er the Liffey swell
rang out through the foggy dew.

- Dubliners, "The Foggy Dew"

March 16, 2011

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

- Mia Hamm

March 15, 2011

Luck can only get you so far.

- Hermione, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

March 14, 2011

Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along. You get thirsty. You spot a little brook. You put your little deer lips down to the cool, clear water - BAM. A fuckin' bullet rips off part of your head. Your brains are lying on the ground in little bloody pieces. Now I ask ya, would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son-of-a-bitch who shot you was wearing?

- My Cousin Vinny

March 13, 2011

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

- Carl Sandburg

March 12, 2011

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.

- Author Unknown

March 11, 2011

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

- Jonathan Swift

March 10, 2011

Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.

- Charles Kingsley

March 09, 2011

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

- Kerry Thornley

March 08, 2011

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

- Charles E. Popplestone

March 07, 2011

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

- Flavia Ween