Posted by Cottontimer on 10 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Quotes
“…I’m just the sort of person who kind of knows what he wants to say; I can’t remember ever staring at the blank screen, trying to think of what to write.”
~Pogue’s Productivity Secrets Revealed, NY Times
Posted by Cottontimer on 27 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Our World, Quotes
…American pilots rarely have a chance to demonstrate their prowess any more, because no one is crazy enough to challenge them.
~James Fallows on the F-22 fighter plane
Sounds like me…. Yeah, right. I wish!!
Posted by Cottontimer on 15 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Quotes
The older I get, the more I feel this way.
It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, playwright, first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Posted by Cottontimer on 30 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Quotes
“I wasn’t even good at math.”
~Stanford mathematics professor Keith Devlin, winner of the Carl Sagan Prize for popularizing science.
Who knew. I could have been a math professor too!
Posted by Cottontimer on 07 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Quotes
When you retire you switch bosses, from the one who hired you, to the one who married you.
~ Grounds Services crew supervisor Mary Nolan, speaking at a picnic in honor of groundskeeper Arturo Rodriguez, who retired after working at Stanford for 42 years.
Posted by Cottontimer on 03 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Funny, Quotes
mdmhvonpa of White Lightning Axiom sure has a way with words. Referring to a woman who repeatedly blocks the access lane of a handicapped parking (HP) spot:
Speaking of suckage, on Monday I found the HP-Hostile woman had parked her car in the slot again. The kids asked me if I were going to write her a note. I said no, that would be like putting lipstick on a pig. A lot of effort and it would still be a pig. I’m kinda hoping they repeat that if we see her next time.
Maybe that’s why I’ve never bothered with lipstick.
Posted by Cottontimer on 13 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Quotes
Great quote from an interview of Christine Comaford-Lynch, author of Rules for Renegades:
People say life is 90% about showing up. That’s nonsense. Life is 90% about following through.
Posted by Cottontimer on 22 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Funny, Parenting, Quotes
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
~King Edward VIII
And it’s not just America…. Boy, we’re in a heap o’ trouble.
Posted by Cottontimer on 23 May 2007 | Tagged as: Quotes
“Good news comes right away; bad news never comes.”
This rule applies when you’re waiting to hear whether people liked an idea, a proposal, a draft, etc. If you don’t hear back pretty quick, they didn’t like it.
Ouch. Guess now I know.
Posted by Cottontimer on 25 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Knick Knacks, Quotes
Something’s got to. Why not Post-It Flags?
And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true. And, so it was, a wristwatch saved Harold Crick.
