Stuff and Stuff makes me happy

"Not that I depend on pleasant circumstances to govern my attitude toward life, but they do help."
-----John McCloy

Meditation #17

From John Donne's Meditation #17:

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lss, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

Quote from Laura's FB

"The truth is, as much as we complain about it, we are drawn to hurry. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means we don't have to look too closely at the heart or life. ...We want to microwave maturity." - John Ortber

Sad Truth

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken

Quotes

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
- James Thurber

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields

Quotes and History

I would like to note that on this day in 241 B.C., the Romans sank the Carthaginian fleet.  Also, a very happy birthday to Chuck Norris, 69 and still going strong.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."

Christopher Hampton

"Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

Ambrose Bierce

"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."

Laurence J. Peter

True of me

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."--Francois de La Rochefoucauld

College Students

Kendra: "I can't figure out if I'm stressed or sick or both.  Probably both."

Ricky: "So, you're stricked?"

Happy Birthday Francis Bacon!

"There's no secret abou success.  Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"--Kin Hubbard

"Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"--Richard Feynman

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."--Jean Kerr

So true

  "Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening."--Barbara Tober

Overheard this evening

Naomi:  "She's my in-ter-per-tater."

BonnieJean:  "She means interpreter."

Quote from Igoogle page

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his 'business' is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."--Robert Louis Stevenson

From my Igoogle page

This could also apply to busy work in public education.

"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."--Charles Peters

Samuel just told me this

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is for forever."---Napolean Bonaparte

Google

  So, I'm officially switching from Internet Explorer to Google Chrome.  As Samuel said, "Someday the world will be run by Google, and it will be a fast and efficient world."

From my Igoogle page

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry. - Calvin Trillin
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. - Tom Lehrer

All done!

I'm all done with finals as of 10 minutes ago. Hallelujah!

Here's some funny quotes from my igoogle page today.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. - Garrison Keillor

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.--Flannery O'Connor

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.--Napoleon Bonaparte

No one needs our criticisms. Everyone needs our encouragement.--Denny Holzbauer

So true

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."--John Lennon

Even rock stars can occasionally be witty.

"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long." Leonard Bernstein