Archive for December, 2007

Paula Poundstone on Humor

Monday, December 31st, 2007

I don’t have a bank account because I don’t know my mother’s maiden name.

- Paula Poundstone

, , ,

Lily Tomlin on Success

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

- Lily Tomlin

, , ,

Frank Lloyd Wright on Business

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

, , ,

John Foster Dulles on Success

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

- John Foster Dulles

, , ,

Milton Friedman on Society

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

- Milton Friedman

, , ,

Diane Ackerman on Nature

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

- Diane Ackerman

, , ,

Scott Adams on Art

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

, , ,

Rogers Hornsby on Sports

Friday, December 28th, 2007

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

- Rogers Hornsby

, , ,

Bertrand Russell on Love

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

- Bertrand Russell

, , ,

Elizabeth II on History

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

- Elizabeth II

, , ,