Shake off the Rust
7 years ago
Friday, July 9, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Foto Friday - Upside-Down House
With my luck, a tornado would come along and flip it right-side up again.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Thoughtful Thursday
"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work."
- Neil Armstrong
"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
- Andy Warhol
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
- Albert Schweitzer
"Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second - and best - in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes."
- Theodor Fontane
"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
- Charles de Secondat
6
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
- Sigmund Freud
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
- Aneurin Bevan
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
- Sydney J. Harris
- Neil Armstrong
"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
- Andy Warhol
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
- Albert Schweitzer
"Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second - and best - in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes."
- Theodor Fontane
"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
- Charles de Secondat
6
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
- Sigmund Freud
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
- Aneurin Bevan
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
- Sydney J. Harris
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Wordy Wednesday
indemnity: security against damage or loss.
oscitant: yawning, as with drowsiness.
hegira: a journey to a more desirable or congenial place.
amok: in or into a jumbled or confused state.
couvade: when the husband of a pregnant woman acts as though he were bearing the child.
heliolatry: worship of the sun.
proliferate: to increase or spread at a rapid rate.
oscitant: yawning, as with drowsiness.
hegira: a journey to a more desirable or congenial place.
amok: in or into a jumbled or confused state.
couvade: when the husband of a pregnant woman acts as though he were bearing the child.
heliolatry: worship of the sun.
proliferate: to increase or spread at a rapid rate.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Thoughtful Thursday
"Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it."
- Kenneth Bancroft Clark
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
- Helen Keller
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
- Aristotle
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
- James Baldwin
"How often in life it is a truth that we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."
- Leon Uris
"The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment not of sentiment, but of history."
- Woodrow Wilson
"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work."
- Neil Armstrong
- Kenneth Bancroft Clark
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
- Helen Keller
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
- Aristotle
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
- James Baldwin
"How often in life it is a truth that we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."
- Leon Uris
"The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment not of sentiment, but of history."
- Woodrow Wilson
"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work."
- Neil Armstrong
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Wordy Wednesday
noctivagant: pertaining to wandering at night.
ruth: pity or compassion.
kowtow: to act in a subservient manner.
juggernaut: any large, overpowering, destructive force.
vernacular: the plain variety of language in everyday use.
quintessential: being the most typical.
festoon: to adorn with hanging chains or strands of any material.
ruth: pity or compassion.
kowtow: to act in a subservient manner.
juggernaut: any large, overpowering, destructive force.
vernacular: the plain variety of language in everyday use.
quintessential: being the most typical.
festoon: to adorn with hanging chains or strands of any material.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Thoughtful Thursday
"My own view about bringing up kids is praise, praise and praise again."
- Sir Richard Branson
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
- George Bernard Shaw
"The Interstate highway system has made it possible to go from sea to shining sea without seeing anything."
- Charles Kuralt
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."
- David Brinkley
"Americans have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"
- Alexis de Tocqueville
"You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
- Harriet Martineau
"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly, it is not a sufficient condition."
- Milton Friedman
- Sir Richard Branson
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
- George Bernard Shaw
"The Interstate highway system has made it possible to go from sea to shining sea without seeing anything."
- Charles Kuralt
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."
- David Brinkley
"Americans have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"
- Alexis de Tocqueville
"You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
- Harriet Martineau
"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly, it is not a sufficient condition."
- Milton Friedman
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