Quote of the Day

"Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Quote of the Day

"I took the train back
Back to where I came from
I took it all alone
It's been so long I know "
- Tegan and Sara, "Hop a Plane"

Quote of the Day

"Ever since his failed presidential bid, McCain has devolved from war hero and maverick to a character more like the deranged uncle in Arsenic and Old Lace who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, roaring and charging at every imaginary threat, toy pistols ablaze."
- Nancy Goldstein, "A McCain Thanksgiving," The American Prospect

Quote of the Day

"You stand this close to me
Like the future was supposed to be
In the aisles of the grocery
In the blocks uptown"
- Vampire Weekend, "Taxi Cab"

(Quote of the Day is on hiatus until next Monday. Happy Thanksgiving!)

Quote of the Day

"...to intend the best, and to be thankful for the present, is the only plan I can resolve on."
- St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Quote of the Day

"It's not faith, it's work."
- Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking

(recommended viewing)

Quote of the Day

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
- Joseph Conrad

Quote of the Day

"Everybody's thinking I was just too scared to love you
You've got them all believing that I folded under pressure
It's crazy how I gave my best I tried so hard to love you
I can't believe that all this time my pain just brought you pleasure"
- Kelly Rowland, "Rose Colored Glasses"

Quote of the Day

"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers have been all over it."
- Julia Child (yes!)

Quote of the Day

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
- Irina Dunn

Quote of the Day

"If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal' then I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal.'"
- John F. Kennedy

Quote of the Day

"I cannot endure to waste anything as
precious as autumn sunshine by
staying in the house. So I spend almost all
the daylight hours in the open air."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (via)

(Mountain Day 2009)

Quote of the Day

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of -- throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Quote of the Day

"The details make life holy."
- Noah Ben Shea

Quote of the Day

"This whole 'saying no' philosophy makes me seem like a very boring person. But I'm not boring because, while I say not to certain things (sex, drugs, alcohol), I try to say yes to everything else. I honestly believe there's a certain power behind the word YES....When you say yes you can start and end the day in two totally different places. Yes takes that space between unlimited possibilities and reality, and stretches it out so that anything can happen."
- Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

Quote of the Day

"Allow events to change you: You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them."
- Bruce Mau

Quote of the Day

"These beings were not either/or...Clark Kent was Superman, Autobots were both robots and automobiles at the same time. In that vein, in real life I, too, could be more than meets the eye...different versions of who I am, not competing with one another, but all of them calmly resting inside."
- Lauren Martin, Quantify #5

Quote of the Day

"I know I've lost my conscience
I know I've lost all shame
But I must do the right thing
I must do myself a favor and get real
Get right with the Lord"
- Sufjan Stevens, "Get Real Get Right" (via)

Quote of the Day

"This hatred overtook me, and I couldn’t help myself. I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn’t go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut."
- Elizabeth Wurtzel

Quote of the Day

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Quote of the Day

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
- Juan Ramon Jimenez

Quote of the Day

"I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate."– Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

Quote of the Day

"Chaos is the new calm
violence the new balm
to be spread on lips
unused to a kiss."
- Wyn Cooper, "Chaos is the New Calm"

Quote of the Day

"It’s strange, the line you cross when you move from calm and satisfied with the rightness and safety of things to the sudden panic that the world has turned angry and dangerous."
- Martha Manning

Quote of the Day

"It's called America, dude. Learn the rules."
- Doug, Ghost World

Quote of the Day

"Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps,
dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles,
chance remarks, old films, small victories,
people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because
our sense of what is the case is constructed from
such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely,
even to the death."
- Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands


(spiritual enlightenment: here)