This is a "feel good" page where I can share things that I
hope you will enjoy too. It has nothing to do with my art and craft, hence
the title Off Topic.
If you can’t
explain the idea in one sentence over the telephone, it won’t work. Lou
Danziger.
Always having
what we want
may not be the best good fortune.
Health seems sweetest
after sickness, food
in hunger, goodness
in the wake of evil, and at the end
of daylong labor sleep.
Heraclitus of Ephesus; translated by Brooks Haxton.
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
Will Rogers to his niece, on seeing the Venus de Milo.
My cat does not
talk as respectfully to me as I do to her. Colette.
Life is too short.
Death seizes us while we are still full of our miseries and our good
intentions. Marie de Sevigne.
More images from my photo album:
...and more
thoughts to ponder:
Too many people seem to think life is a spectator sport. Katherine
Hepburn.
Education is when
you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Pete
Seeger.
The most exciting
phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm.... that's
funny...' Isaac Asimov.
While we are
postponing, life speeds by. Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
Computers aren't
intelligent, they only think they are.
Argue for your
limitations, and sure enough they're yours. Richard Bach.
The artist is
nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Emile
Zola.
Nothing that is
worthwhile is ever easy. Indira Gandhi.
Lead me not into
temptation (I can find the way myself). Anonymous.
When something can
be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Enrique
Jardiel Poncela.
I am not young enough to know
everything. Oscar Wilde.
I choose a block
of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. Rodin, describing how he
carved his statues.
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Edison.
Whether you think
that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. Henry Ford.
Obstacles are
those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford.
