August 14, 2016

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

- David Brinkley

August 13, 2016

Round the chimney, step in time
Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Round the chimney, step in time.

- Dick Van Dyke, "Step in Time"

August 12, 2016

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.

- George Orwell, Animal Farm

August 11, 2016

You fake something until you're good at it.

- Al Yankovic

August 10, 2016

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

- Joseph Joubert

August 09, 2016

Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

- Mark Lawrence

August 08, 2016

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

- Michael Phelps