01/31/08

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. -Neil Gaiman

01/30/08

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own. -Blaise Pascal

01/29/08

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. -Rod Serling

01/28/08

There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will. -Grenville Kleiser

01/25/08

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. -Philip K. Dick

01/24/08

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motorshow — full of potential but temporarily inactive. -Anthony Burgess

01/23/08

Slang is the poetry of everyday life. -S.I. Hayakawa

01/22/08

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. -Neil Gaiman

01/18/08

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. -Charles M. Schulz

01/17/08

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. -James Baldwin

01/16/08

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading toward success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -Vaclav Havel

01/15/08

God has given each person a capacity to reach some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

01/14/08

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I've felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I'm careful about what I give voice to. -Toni Cade Bambara

01/10/08

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. -Neil Gaiman

01/09/08

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. -J.K. Rowling

01/08/08

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. -James Kern Feibleman

01/07/08

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling. -Robert Fulghum