Monday, August 27, 2012

Frasier Wisdom

Frasier (Kelsey Grammer): I, for one, happen to believe in the kindness of strangers.
Roz (Peri Gilpin): Well, I believe in the strangeness of strangers.

Roz's unheeded advice as she tries to keep Frasier from inviting listeners to feel free to approach him in public

Fraiser
Season 3, Episode 11 The Friend, 1996
Writers David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee
Grub Street Productions

Source: wikiquote.org

Urban Meyer on Setting Reachable Goals

Right now, we’re going to do the best we can to help them be less stupid.

Urban Meyer

On two Ohio State football players coming back from suspension after being arrested for obstructing official business when they urinated on a building and fled from police.

Source: thelantern.com and cbssports.com

Nikita Khrushchev on Common Ground

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Nikita Khrushchev

Source: quotegarden.com

Leonard Bernstein on Ideals

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Leonard Bernstein
The New York Times, 30 October 1988

Source: quotegarden.com

Alexis de Tocqueville on Political Parties

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville lived in the first half of the 19th century.

Source: quotegarden.com

Will Rogers on Distraction

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Will Rogers

Source: goodreads.com

Phyllis Diller on Housekeeping

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet them with, “Who could have done this? We have no enemies.”

Phyllis Diller

Source: thedailybeast.com

My lifelong housekeeping resource and inspiration. Thank you and farewell.

Neil Armstrong on Accomplishment

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Neil Armstrong

Source: brainyquote.com

Thank you and farewell.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

The Daily Show Wisdom

Are you kidding? NBC -- the network that, to commemorate 9/11, actually re-runs 9/11 -- you wouldn't air a six minute tribute to the rest of the world's terrorist victims? Because the world's most overexposed land-based mammal had a chance to speak to the world's most overexposed water-based mammal.

Questioning NBC's decision not to air a tribute to the 52 lives lost in the 2005 London subway bombings during the Olympics opening ceremony, instead cutting to a Ryan Seacrest interview with swimmer Michael Phelps.

Jon Stewart
The Daily Show
Monday, July 30, 2012
Comedy Central
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Charles Lummis on Resilience

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.

Charles F. Lummis


To honor Rodney King. Thank you and farewell.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Emily Post on Real Manners

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Emily Post

Source: goodreads.com

DeMaurice Williams on Authenticity

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but nobody is entitled to their own facts.

DeMaurice Williams
Executive Director, NFL Players Association

To Mike Greenberg on Mike and Mike, ESPN
regarding a NFLPA salary cap lawsuit
Friday, May 25, 2012

Sunday, May 13, 2012

e.e. cummings on Authenticity

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. 

e.e. cummings

Source: quotegarden.com

Mary Oliver on Unconditional Love

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Mary Oliver, poet

For the Wendy puppy, thank you and farewell.

Source: wisdomquotes.com

Helen Steiner Rice on True Love

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.

Helen Steiner Rice

In remembrance of my Mom.

Source: thinkexist.com