Posted in Quotes of the Year 2009, tagged 2009, Author, authors, Journalism, Journalist, Lexicographer, Librarian, Poet, Poetry, quotes, Writer, writers, writing on May 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Things you never knew had names….
AGLET – The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
ARMSAYE – The armhole in clothing.
CHANKING – Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
COLUMELLA NASI – The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
DRAGÉES – Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes [...]
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Posted in Quotes of the Year 2009, tagged 2009, America, American, Author, authors, Free Press, Journalism, Journalist, Media, quotes, Quotes of the Year 2009, Writer, writers, writing on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“In 1993 Camilo Jose Cela published his Memorias, a painstakingly detailed narrative of his life, at odds in many points with a previously written biography by his son, Camilo Cela Conde, as well as with the recollections of his many friends and coetaneous narrators.” – Thilo Ullmann; Spain’s Cela; World & I (Washington, DC); Jan [...]
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Posted in Quotes of the Year 2009, tagged 2009, American, Author, authors, Journalism, Journalist, Media, Newspapers, quotes, Quotes of the Year 2009, Writer, writers, writing on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Francesco Isolabella, one of her lawyers, said, ‘Marion True is being used as an excuse to criminalize all American museums.’ Ms. True should not be used ‘as a passe-partout to get at the Getty.’” – Elisabetta Povoledo; Casting Blame for Looting In Trial of Getty Ex-Curator; The New York Times; Jan 18, 2007.
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Posted in Quotes of the Year 2009, tagged 2009, America, American, Author, authors, Inventor, Politicians, Politico, Politics, quotes, Quotes of the Year 2009, Statesman on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means – either will do – the result in the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however [...]
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Posted in Quotes of the Year 2009, tagged America, American, Democrat, Democratic, Gun violence, Guns, International, Politicians, Politico, Politics, Quotes of the Year 2009, Secretary of State, Statesman on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.” – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a visit to Mexico.
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Posted in Quotes of the Year 2009, tagged 2009, America, Author, authors, Philosopher, Philosophy, quotes, Quotes of the Year 2009, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Writer, writers, writing on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” — Helen Keller
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FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS): 1. A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired. 2. A will is a dead giveaway. 3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. 4. A backward poet writes inverse. 5. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that votes. [...]
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“Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language [...]
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Posted in Quotes of the Year 2009, tagged 2009, Author, authors, Politicians, Politico, Politics, President, President of the United States, quotes, Quotes of the Year 2009, Writer, writers, writing on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss [...]
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