Quote of the Day

"There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza on your lap." -- Kevin James

Quote of the Day

"No pressure, no diamonds." -- Thomas Carlyle

Quote of the Day

"Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss." -- Abba Eban

Quote of the Day

"On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy." -- Gary Larson

Quote of the Day

"I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child." -- Peter Gabriel

Quote of the Day

"Winners make things happen ~~ Losers let things happen." -- Unknown

Quote of the Day

"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory." -- Bill Russell

Quote of the Day

"It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves." -- Rav Meir Kahane

Quote of the Day

"It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge." -- Adolf Hitler

Quote of the Day

"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." -- Leslie Nielsen

Quote of the Day

"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear." -- Henry David Thoreau

Quote of the Day

"I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are." -- Joan Rivers

Quote of the Day

"When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist." -- Shimon Peres

Quote of the Day

"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all." -- Rita Mae Brown

Quote of the Day

"Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis." -- Silvan Shalom

Quote of the Day

"You don't need a silver fork to eat good food." -- Paul Prudhomme

Quote of the Day

"We come with a simple message to the Council: we are proud of what we have done because we have demonstrated to the world that a small country, in Israel's circumstances, with which the members of this Council are by now all too familiar, the dignity of man, human life and human freedom constitute the highest values. We are proud not only because we have saved the lives of over a hundred innocent people - men, women and children - but because of the significance of our act for the cause of human freedom." -- Chaim Herzog, addressing the UN Security Council following Operation Entebbe

Quote of the Day

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ." -- John Steinbeck

Quote of the Day

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." -- Warren Buffett

Quote of the Day

"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea." -- Medgar Evers

Quote of the Day

"You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest." -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Quote of the Day

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." -- Benjamin Disraeli

Quote of the Day

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." -- Jack London

Carpe Diem!

Quote of the Day

"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it." -- Steven Wright

Quote of the Day

"Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself." -- Toby Keith

Quote of the Day

"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking." -- Nat King Cole

Quote of the Day

"If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week ." -- Moshe Dayan

Quote of the Day

"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?" -- Milton Friedman

Quote of the Day

"You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way." -- Abba Eban

Quote of the Day

"If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life." -- Willie Mays

Quote of the Day

"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew." -- Herb Caen

Quote of the Day

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough." -- George Bernard Shaw

Quote of the Day

"For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete." -- Paul Graham

Quote of the Day

"What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime." -- Frank Abignale

Quote of the Day

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -- Carl Sagan

Quote of the Day

"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat." -- Christy Mathewson

Quote of the Day

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm there is for science among elementary school youngsters than among college students." -- Carl Sagan

Quote of the Day

"You affect the world by what you browse." -- Tim Berners-Lee

Quote of the Day

"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it." -- John Perry Barlow

Quote of the Day

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- Alan Kay

Quote of the Day

"Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge." -- Chiune Sugihara, quoting an old samurai saying when asked why he risked his career to save other people

Quote of the Day

"Bill Gates is a very rich man today...and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions." -- Dave Barry

Quote of the Day

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision." -- Helen Keller

Quote of the Day

"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home." -- William E. Gladstone

Quote of the Day

"I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through." -- Geddy Lee

Quote of the Day

"It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer." -- Larry Bird

Quote of the Day

"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion." -- Alexander Graham Bell

Quote of the Day

"I skated to where the puck was going to be, not where it had been." -- Wayne Gretzky

Quote of the Day

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print." -- Isadora Duncan

Quote of the Day

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -- Howard Thurman

Quote of the Day

"I love rock 'n roll." -- Joan Jett

Quote of the Day

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." -- Joseph Stalin

Quote of the Day

"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen and the publicity on which they depend." -- Margaret Thatcher

Quote of the Day

"Then I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside my head." -- Sting

Quote of the Day

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't." -- Pete Seeger

Quote of the Day

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied." -- Arnold H. Glasgow

Quote of the Day

"True friends stab you in the front." -- Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar." -- Robert Brault

Quote of the Day

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone." -- Horace

Quote of the Day

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Quote of the Day

"Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." -- Richard Feynman

Quote of the Day

"Cleverness is not wisdom." -- Euripides

Quote of the Day

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

"There is one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money elsewhere." -- Sam Walton

Quote of the Day

"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." -- Confucius

Quote of the Day

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." -- Arthur C. Clarke

The early bird may get the worm...

...but, it's the 2nd mouse who gets the cheese. Think about it.

Quotes of the Day

"People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'" -- Sinclair Lewis

"I'm a decent man who exports flowers." -- Pablo Escobar

Quote of the Day

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the Day

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." -- Tom Brokaw

Quote of the Day

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." -- Harold Geneen

Quote of the Day

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." -- Benjamin Franklin

Quote of the Day

"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." -- Colin Powell

Quote of the Day

"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships." -- Stephen Covey

Quote of the Day

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." -- Teddy Roosevelt

Quote of the Day

"Success is not to be measured so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." -- Booker T. Washington

Quote of the Day

"Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom." -- General George S. Patton

Quote of the Day

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other." -- Erma Bombeck

Quote of the Day

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." -- Teddy Roosevelt

Quote of the Day

"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination." -- Ally Sheedy

Quote of the Day

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." -- David Brinkley

Quote of the Day

"When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do." -- Patrick Swayze

Quote of the Day

"But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened is my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love." -- William Shatner

Quote of the Day

"Venezuela has changed forever." -- Hugo Chavez

Quote of the Day

Amelia: "Are you coming or going?"
Viktor: "I don't know. Both."

-- Catherine Zeta-Jones and Tom Hanks as Amelia and Viktor in "The Terminal"

Quote of the Day

"We pass through this world but once." -- Stephen Jay Gould

Quote of the Day

"When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair." -- Sylvester Stallone

Quote of the Day

"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government." -- Barry Goldwater

Quote of the Day

"Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think." -- Adolf Eichman

Quote of the Day

"A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader." -- Golda Meir

Quotes of the Day

"I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do." -- Don Knotts

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote of the Day

"I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not." -- Chevy Chase

Quote of the Day

"There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on." -- Rod Serling

Quote of the Day

"I don't know what I would have done without believing in G-d. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be." -- Ofra Haza

Quote of the Day

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby

Quote of the Day

"Never wait for trouble." -- Chuck Yeager

Quote of the Day

"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny." -- Edmund Burke

Quote of the Day

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is." -- Shirley MacLaine

Quotes of the Day

"In a dictionary, you say 'greatest', you say 'Bruce Lee', that's the way it is. He is second to no one." -- Sugar Ray Leonard

"Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda

Quote of the Day

"You have to have a short memory as a closer." -- Frank Robinson

Quote of the Day

"Instant gratification is not soon enough." -- Meryl Streep

Quote of the Day

"I'm no bastard! I'm Bruce Lee!" -- Jason Scott Lee as Bruce Lee in "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story"

Quote of the Day

"One more lesson to share. The price of honor. The glory of friendship. And the way you must fight when only the winner survives." -- tag line from "The Karate Kid Part II"

Quote of the Day

"Cannibals prefer those who have no spines." -- Stanislaw Lem

Quote of the Day

"Human history in essence is the history of ideas." -- H.G. Wells

Quote of the Day

"Directors, like actors, get typecast." -- John Landis

Quote of the Day

"When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games." -- Eddie Murray

Quote of the Day

"I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change." -- "What Color is Your Parachute?" author Richard Bolles

Quote of the Day

"Storms make trees take deeper roots." -- Dolly Parton

Quote of the Day

"You can only hold your stomach in for so many years." -- Burt Reynolds

Quote of the Day

"He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive." -- tag line from "Taxi Driver"

Quote of the Day

"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made." -- George Burns

Quote of the Day

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." -- Charles M. Schultz

Quote of the Day

"It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time." -- John Travolta

Quote of the Day

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -- Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

Quote of the Day

"All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride." -- W. Edwards Deming

Quote of the Day

"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are called 'suits'." -- Paul Graham

Quote of the Day

"I head a nation of a million presidents." -- Chaim Weizmann

Quote of the Day

"Sometimes a winner is a dreamer who just won't quit." -- tag line from "Rudy"

Quote of the Day

"A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise." -- Roger Ebert

Quote of the Day

"We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief." -- Whitey Herzog

Quote of the Day

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." -- John F. Kennedy

Quote of the Day

"Dancing is not a crime." -- Kevin Bacon as Wren McCormick in "Footloose"

Quote of the Day

"[Michael Jackson's] father seems to have driven him to create an alternate universe for himself, in which somewhere, over the rainbow, he could have another childhood." -- Roger Ebert

Quote of the Day

"Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire." -- Pat Morita

Quote of the Day

"My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure." -- Judd Nelson

Quotes of the Day

"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88, you're going to see some serious s---." -- Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in "Back to Future".

"The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces." -- traditional proverb

Quote of the Day

"I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack." -- Molly Ringwald

"Dear Mr. Vernon,"

"We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong...but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who you think we are. You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms and most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...and an athlete...and a basket case...a princess...and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club"

Quote of the Day

"The medical field is interested in treating disease. I'm interested in building health." -- Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee

Quote of the Day

"A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering." -- Carl Hubbell

Quote of the Day

"In the affairs of this world, men are not saved by faith, but by the want of it." -- Benjamin Franklin

Quote of the Day

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." -- Plato

Quote of the Day

"Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country." -- Steven Wright

Quote of the Day

"I discovered freedom for the first time in England." -- Emperor Hirohito

[In tiny print]

"If you can read this, you don't need glasses." -- opening credits in Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs"

Quote of the Day

"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives." -- Abba Eban

Quote of the Day

"There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started." -- Eddie Van Halen

Quote of the Day

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision." -- The Rambam (a.k.a. Maimonides)

Quote of the Day

"Better to be disliked than pitied." -- Abba Eban

Quote of the Day

"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind." -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Quote of the Day

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." -- Voltaire

Quote of the Day

"There is no substitute for knowledge." -- W. Edwards Deming

Quote of the Day

"Any manager can do well in an expanding market." -- W. Edwards Deming

Quote of the Day

"Most chick singers say 'If you hurt me, I'll die'...I say, 'If you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'" -- Pat Benatar

Quote of the Day

"I think quotes are very dangerous things." -- Kate Bush

Quote of the Day

"Helping someone is what life is all about." -- Willie Stargell

Quote of the Day

"I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!" -- Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather Part II"

Quote of the Day

"Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. The city will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever." -- Yitzhak Shamir

Quote of the Day

"Leave the table while you still think you could eat a little more." -- Helena Rubinstein

Quote of the Day

"It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there." -- Mia Hamm

Quote of the Day

"I don't like to dwell on the past." -- Tina Turner

Quote of the Day

"I think I've been a great citizen." -- O.J. Simpson

Quote of the Day

"In Jewish history there are no coincidences." -- Elie Wiesel

Quote of the Day

"I am against any reconciliation with Israel." -- Hassan Nasrallah

Quote of the Day

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." -- James A. Michener

Quote of the Day

"In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king." -- Ken Harrelson

Quote of the Day

"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy." -- Nolan Ryan

Grateful to be alive and well at 42

Quote of the Day

"If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game." -- Rickey Henderson

Quote of the Day

"I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young." -- Olivia Newton-John

Quote of the Day

"My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage." -- Gerald Ford

Quote of the Day

"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker." -- Charles Schulz

Quote of the Day

"The secret to film is that it's an illusion." -- George Lucas

Current Weight: 144 lbs.

Lost .8 lbs. since last Weight Watchers meeting.

5 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 lb.

Quote of the Day

"The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all." -- Bob Cousy

Quote of the Day

"This is your moment. You're meant to be here." -- Herb Brooks

Quote of the Day

"The world will not accept dictatorship or domination." -- Mikhail Gorbachev

Quote of the Day

"Everything is practice." -- Pele

Quote of the Day

"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment." -- Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather"

Quote of the Day

"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism." -- Bette Davis

Quote of the Day

"It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength against Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness." -- Moshe Dayan

Quote of the Day

"Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances." -- John Havlicek

Quote of the Day

"We have to do the impossible, but it is possible." -- Kevin Garnett

Quote of the Day

"I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need." -- Lady Gaga

Quote of the Day

"Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed." -- Bruce Springsteen

Quote of the Day

"If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would lie to you." -- Dr. Henry Kissinger

Quote of the Day

"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately." -- Robert Smith, lead singer of The Cure (their single "Lovesong" hit #2 on the US Billboard charts over 20 years ago; the band's still going strong).

Current Weight: 144.8 lbs.

Lost 1.4 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

5.8 pounds to go towards new goal weight.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 more lb.

Quote of the Day

"The Holocaust never ended, but the victims decided to start defending themselves." -- Walid Shoebat

Quote of the Day

"I come to play every day." -- David Ortiz

Quote of the Day

"An orgasm is just a reflex, like a sneeze." -- Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Quote of the Day

"I must study politics and war that my sons have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." -- John Adams

Current Weight: 146.2 lbs.

Stayed same this week.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 lb.

28.6 lbs. lost since rejoining.

.2 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many." -- Giorgio Moroder

Quote of the Day

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." -- Steve Jobs

Quote of the Day

"We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face." -- Sarah Palin

Quote of the Day

"Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting." -- Casey Kasem

Quote of the Day

"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete, or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't." -- Bruce Jenner

Quote of the Day

"We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport." -- Alberto Salazar

Current Weight: 146.2 lbs.

Lost 1.4 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

28.6 lbs. lost so far.

.2 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 more lb.

Quote of the Day

"Anybody can be a runner...We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport." -- Bill Rodgers

Quote of the Day

"Gluttony is not a secret vice." -- Orson Welles

Quote of the Day

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." -- Bob Marley

Quote of the Day

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here." -- Jim Henson

Quote of the Day

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." -- George Washington

Quote of the Day

"Perception is reality." -- Lee Atwater

Quote of the Day

"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next." -- Herbert Hoover

Current Weight: 147.6 lbs.

Gained .2 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 lb.

27.2 lbs. lost since November.

1.6 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"Do not treat others as you would not want to be treated yourself. All the rest is commentary. Now, go and study the commentary." -- Rabbi Hillel

Quote of the Day

"It was a way of life that was vanishing in Boston...we wanted to restore this community" -- Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, aka The Bostoner Rebbe

Quote of the Day

"You're only as good as the people you hire." -- Ray Kroc

Cannot stop playing "More, More, More" Part I over and over again on YouTube

Just one of those things...

Current Weight: 147.4 lbs.

Lost 2.2 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

27.4 lbs. lost so far.

1.4 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 more lb.

Quote of the Day

"Conjunction Junction, what's your function?" -- Schoolhouse Rock!

Quote of the Day

"You can't hit what you can't see." -- Walter Johnson

Quote of the Day

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." -- Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the Day

"The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over 30 years ; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!" -- Christopher Knight, aka "Peter"

Quote of the Day

Rocky: "I see three of him out there."
Paulie: "Hit the one in the middle!"

Current Weight: 149.6 lbs.

Gained .2 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 lb.

25.2 lbs. lost so far.

3.6 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man." -- Al Capone

Quote of the Day

"You know the Woodstock generation of the 1960s that were so full of themselves and conceited? None of those people could dance." -- Kate Beckinsale as Charlotte Pingress in "The Last Days of Disco"

Quote of the Day

"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." -- Wolfgang Puck

Quote of the Day

"You cannot run faster than a bullet." -- Idi Amin

Quote of the Day

"Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did." -- Steven Spielberg

Quote of the Day

"I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June." -- Carl Yastrzemski

Quote of the Day

"The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either." -- Mick Jagger

Current Weight: 149.4 lbs.

Stayed same this week at Weight Watchers.

25.4 lbs. lost so far.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 lb.

3.4 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it." -- Julia Child

Quote of the Day

"Ooh aah, just a little, ooh aah, a little bit more, ooh aah, just a little bit, you know what I'm looking for..." -- "Ooh Aah...Just A Little Bit", written by Simon Tauber and Steve Rodway, recorded by Gina G

Quote of the Day

"Far more crucial than what we do or do not know is what we do not want to know." -- Eric Hoffer

Quote of the Day

"Well, I love a rainy night; I love a rainy night. I love to hear the thunder; watch the lightning when it lights up the sky." -- "I Love a Rainy Night"; written by David Malloy, Eddie Rabbitt and Even Stevens; recorded by Rabbitt

Quote of the Day

"The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence." -- Rav Meir Kahane

Quote of the Day

"No disease that can be treated with diet should be treated with any other means." -- The Rambam (aka Rabbi Moses Maimonides)

Current Weight: 149.4 lbs.

Lost 3.2 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

25.4 lbs. lost total.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 more lb.

3.4 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood." -- Moshe Dayan

Quote of the Day

"We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that organization." -- Yitzhak Shamir

Quote of the Day

"Sovereignty is not given, it is taken." -- Kemal Ataturk

Quote of the Day

"Risin' up, back on the street...took my time, took my chances...went the distance, now I'm back on my feet...just a man and his will to survive..." -- "Eye of Tiger", written by Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik, recorded by Survivor

Quote of the Day

"Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up." -- Daniel Pipes

Current Weight: 152.6 lbs.

Gained 2.2 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

22.2 lbs. lost so far.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1lb.

6.6 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"We should have a banquet on the day haters die." -- Rav Ovadia Yosef

Quote of the Day

"The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot." -- Bill Russell

Quote of the Day

"Facts are stubborn things." -- Ronald Reagan

Quote of the Day

"Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice." -- Akio Morita, founder of Sony Corporation

Quote of the Day

"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs." -- David Ben Gurion

Current Weight: 150.4 lbs.

Lost 1.2 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

24.4 lbs. total.

4.4 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis." -- Silvan Shalom

Quote of the Day

"We are not the sum of our possessions." -- President George H. W. Bush

Quote of the Day

"There are no ugly women, only lazy one's." -- Helena Rubinstein

Quote of the Day

"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming." -- Helen Keller

Quote of the Day

"Happiness is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself." -- Norman Vincent Peale

Quote of the Day

"The work you choose to do should be light, easy, and you must commit that you will provide the best service possible when you perform it." -- Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, author of "Strive For Truth"

Current Weight: 151.6 lbs.

Lost .6 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 lb.

5.6 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"Never stop fighting until the fight is done!" -- Kevin Costner as Elliot Ness in "The Untouchables"

Quote of the Day

"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." -- Karl Rove

Quote of the Day

"To eat good food is to be close to G-d." -- Tony Shalhoub as Primo in Big Night

Quote of the Day

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." -- Bill Gates

Quote of the Day

"Papayas should never be refrigerated." -- Alice Waters

Quote of the Day

"'Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. If you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason [for] going out and trying to accomplish anything." -- Joe Montana

Quote of the Day

"Hey now, hey now, don't dream it's over...hey now, hey now when the world comes in...they come, they come to build a wall between us...we know they won't win." -- Neil Finn (recorded by Crowded House and later, Sixpence None the Richer)

Current Weight: 152.2 lbs.

Lost 1.2 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 more lb.

22.6 lbs. overall.

6.2 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them." -- Chaim Weizmann

Quote of the Day

"Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the newborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well." -- Dwight Eisenhower

Quote of the Day

"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right." -- Howard Cosell

Quote of the Day

"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart you can't utter." -- James Earl Jones

Quote of the Day

"Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have[sic] to be out of their minds." -- Don Cherry

Current Weight: 153.4 lbs.

Stayed even this week at Weight Watchers.

21.4 lbs. lost total.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 lb.

Quote of the Day

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud

Quote of the Day

"SCORE!" -- Fred Cusick

Quote of the Day

"This is your moment. You're meant to be here." -- Herb Brooks

Quote of the Day

"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise." -- Red Auerbach

Quote of the Day

"The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills [are] only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result." -- Sadaharu Oh

Quote of the Day

"The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game." -- Dennis Eckersley

Quote of the Day

"A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game." -- Cy Young

Current Weight: 153.4 lbs.

Lost 1.8 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

21.4 lbs. total.

Quote of the Day

"A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars." -- Carl Sagan

Thinking of going off of Facebook for a while

Quote of the Day

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." -- Jean Nidetch, founder of Weight Watchers

Quote of the Day

"It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career." -- Carlton Fisk

Quote of the Day

"People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball." -- Sandy Koufax

Quote of the Day

"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear." -- Menachem Begin

Current Weight: 155.2 lbs.

Lost 1.6 lbs. since my last Weight Watchers meeting.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 lb.

9 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer." -- Larry Bird

Quotes of the Day

"We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two." -- Osama bin Laden

"By the grace of G-d, I am alive." -- bin Laden, after his surviving the Khost cruise missle attack in 1998, following the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa

Quote of the Day

"This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are." -- Jane Elliott

Quote of the Day

"The Holocaust never ended but the victims decided to defend themselves..." -- Walid Shoebat

Quote of the Day

"Turn the radio up for that sweet sound, hold me close, never let me go...(keep) keep this feeling alive, make me lose control." -- Eric Carmen and Dean Pitchford, recorded by Carmen

Quote of the Day

"For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete." -- Paul Graham

Favorite Bachman-Turner Overdrive Song

"Let It Ride"

Quote of the Day

"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves." -- Robert B. Parker (It was a great book , btw.)

Quote of the Day

"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." -- J.K. Rowling

Quote of the Day

"The problem with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around." -- Herb Caen

Quote of the Day

"I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear from us soon." -- President George W. Bush, speaking at Ground Zero of the World Trade Center site - Septemeber 14, 2001

Quote of the Day

"There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that." -- Bobby Orr

Quote of the Day

"First come the gays...then the come the girls...then comes the press." -- Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones in "Sex and the City"

Current Weight: 156.8 lbs.

Lost 3.2 lbs. since my last Weight Watchers meeting.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 more lb.

11 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." -- Wayne Gretzky

Quote of the Day

"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." -- Christopher Columbus

Quote of the Day

"If I was being paid $30,000 a year, the very least I could do was hit .400." -- Ted Williams ($30,000 in 1941 was about $440,000 today adjusted for inflation.)

Quote of the Day

"Bobby Jones is gonna' put the ball into play, and the pass hits the top of the backboard, and it's over! They won three in a row, they came from 3-1 down, and they have won the series! It's all over!" -- Johnny Most's call from the 1981 NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers.

Quote of the Day

"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while, I was a suspect." -- Steven Wright

Quote of the Day

"Never ever, ever, ever give up." -- Winston Churchill

At the Fairfax County Substitute Teacher Employment Office

Waiting to be fingerprinted.

Quote of the Day

"'No' means 'not now'." -- Marlene Forte

The early bird may get the worm...

...but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese. Think about it.

Quote of the Day

"Heaven, Mr. Valentine? Whatever gave you the idea that you were in heaven? This is the other place!" -- Sebastian Cabot in the Twilight Zone episode "A Nice Place to Visit"

Favorite Lionel Richie song

"Say You, Say Me"

Quote of the Day

"There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel." -- Hassan Nasrallah

My favorite Robert Parker book of all time

The Judas Goat

RIP RBP

"Name's Spenser; with an s, like the English poet."

Current Weight: 160 lbs.

Lost 1.4 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 more lb.

14 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"[Israel is] one of the great outposts of democracy in the world." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, quoted 10 days before his assassination on April 4, 1968

Quote of the Day

"Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars." -- Casey Kasem

I want to get back into racing shape.

Quote of the Day

"Israel won't tolerate any anti-Semitic remarks and incitement against Jews." -- Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman

Current Weight: 161.4 lbs.

Lost 1.8 lbs. this week at Weight Watchers.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 more lb.

16 lbs. to go towards goal weight.

Quote of the Day

"You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly." -- Terry Francona

Congratulations to Andre Dawson on his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame

To this day, he remains the only player to ever hit an inside-the-park home run at game which I attended (this was when he was with Montreal and still had legs).

Quote of the Day

"Fox would hire me in a minute. And, believe it or not, CNN would too." -- Michael Savage

Toastmasters International Motto

¨Become the Speaker and Leader You Want to Be¨

Quote of the Day

"Tonight you're gonna' go down in flames...just like Jesse James" -- Desmond Child and Diane Warren, recorded by Cher

Current Weight: 163.2 lbs.

Lost .4 lbs. at Weight Watchers this week.

Goal for this week: Lose at least 1 lb.

18 pounds to go towards goal weight.

Saw a play today

The Prisoner of Zenda at the 1st Stage Theater, Tyson's Corner VA.

Quote of the Day

" Five seconds to the gold medal, four seconds, three...this impossible dream comes true!" -- Al Michaels

Quote of the Day

"Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" -- Al Michaels