Archive for April, 2007

James Thurber on Love

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.

- James Thurber

Will Rogers on Movies

Monday, April 30th, 2007

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

- Will Rogers

Stanislaw Lec on Age

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

- Stanislaw Lec

Dion Boucicault on Time

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

- Dion Boucicault

Meg Whitman on Technology

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

What’s sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

- Meg Whitman

Delmore Schwartz on Time

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

- Delmore Schwartz

John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Margaret Smith on God & Religion

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said No.

- Margaret Smith

C. S. Lewis on Age

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

- C. S. Lewis

Mary Schmich on Movies

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people’s maps will be the same.

- Mary Schmich