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.
Posted by Cottontimer on 17 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Our World, Quotes
“Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials — to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman’s hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.”
~Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist.
NB: Rachel left a comment yesterday inviting us to participate in a study of parenting views and practices being conducted by Dr. Kim White-Mills and Dr. Catherine Dobris of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Head over and express your opinion!
Photo: libraryman
Posted by Cottontimer on 25 May 2006 | Tagged as: Quotes
Maureen McCabe contributed her list of good blogging habits to the ProBlogger project and I loved the last one she mentioned.
10. Try to remember what Columbus resident and writer / cartoonist James Thurber wrote: Dont get it right, just get it written.
This advice couldn’t have come at a better time. I am on page six of the 10 page chapter I have to write on the genetics of depression. I hope I can finish it by the end of the month!
