Saturday, July 31, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Friday, July 30, 2010

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"

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Monday, July 26, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Sunday, July 25, 2010

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

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Friday, July 23, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Monday, July 19, 2010

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

Sunday, July 18, 2010

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

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Friday, July 16, 2010

"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"

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Monday, July 12, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Friday, July 9, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Thursday, July 8, 2010

[In tiny print]

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

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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

Monday, July 5, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Friday, July 2, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Quote of the Day

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