Sometimes by losing a battle, you find a new way to win the war.

(Donald Trump)

Excellence

Excellence is not a skill. It's an attitude.

(Ralph Marston)

I can't express this enough....

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

(Dale Carnegie)

Dinosaurs

It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound..Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and...all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.


(David Raup, Extinction: Bad Genes and Bad Luck)

Do good by your people.

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

(Edgar W. Howe) 

Dreamer

I'm a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

(Eva Green)

Change

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

(Maya Angelou)

Rearranging

 A great number of people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. 




(William James)

My Philosophy

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.


(Alice Roosevelt Longworth)

Imagination

I like nonsense, it wakes up brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.


(Dr. Seuss)

Possibility

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible!"

(Audrey Hepburn)

Freedom

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the  world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.


(Joe Biden)

True Happiness

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

(John W. Gardner)

Power

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.


(Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Battles

You know, you pick and choose your battles.

(Ryan Lochte)

Wonder

Stuff your eyes with wonder...

(Ray Bradbury)

Heart's Desires

You  can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

(Zig Ziglar)

Shakespeare

I have tried to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

(Charles Darwin)

Earn

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes your nothing. It was here first.

(Mark Twain)

I'm on the Facebook.

I've decided to join the cool kids in the Facebook nation. Follow-me. See what I'm up to. It's good for the soul. I might join the Twitter too. I don't know. I don't know if I'll have enough time.

Snorts,

Pilgrim.

Game Play

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

(Kobe Bryant)

Character

A man's character is his fate.

(Heraclitus)

Modesty, or Lack There-of

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.

(Will Rogers)

House and Senate

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?


(Will Rogers)

Foil

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

(Kevin Costner)

Gamble

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.


(William Faulkner)

Giving

When I give, I give myself.

(Walter Whitman)

An assessment of Canada.

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country in about two days.


(Jon Stewart)

Promises

Always do sober, what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.


(Ernest Hemingway)

Inhibitions

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

(Oliver Reed)

French Fries

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love french fries. That and caviar.



(Cameron Diaz)

Weapons of Choice

I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'


(Harrison Ford)

Dinner Conversation

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to all the boring people around me.




(Prince Harry)

Stamp Act

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.


(Dave Barry)

Weather

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.


(Kind Hubbard)

Food

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.


(Rodney Dangerfield)

Tending

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

(Lyndon B. Johnson)

The Roadmap to Success

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.


(Dale Carnegie)

Roller

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life....I just go from day-to-day taking what comes.


(Frank Sinatra)

Indispensable

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said,  the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.


(Donald Rumsfeld)

Soul

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster...and if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.


(Mark Twain)

Priorities

Gym, Tan, Laundry.

(Jersey Shore)

Power

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

(Spike Lee)

Ancient History

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall,  sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

(Martin Scorsese)

Wanderlust

I am astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

(Woody Allen)

Winners

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something more productive.

(Donald Trump)

Life

You have to live life to its full chorizo.

(Mario Batali)

Education

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

(Herman Melville)

Focus

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

(Haile Gebrselassie)

The Edge

The Edge...there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.


(Hunter S. Thompson)