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  • If It Works Use It

     Advice on how to forget something painful.  "The mind is like a basin.  Pull the plug and the memory drains away."–from the novel,"The Rembrandt Affair", by Daniel Silva.  

  • Quote of the Week

    "If anything I have said this morning has been misconstrued to the opposite effect, I want to apologize for that misconstrued misconstruction." "Rep. Joe Barton, attempting to apologize for apologizing to BP for the "shakedown" it got from the White House." Newsweek, June 28 & July 5, 2010

  • Pyrrhic Victory

     A Pyrrhic Victory is one achieved at such a cost that it is almost indistinguishable from defeat.  It seems the term derives from the bellicose antics of Pyrrhus (319-272 BC), King of Epirus, who twice beat the Roman army, but with casualties so crippling that one commentator wrote, " One more such victory and we…

  • Unexpected Dividend

     "When you make love to a woman, you get revenge for all the things that defeated you in life." Ben Kingsley Written by Phillip Roth      

  • Two Corners of Introspection

    We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.—Samuel Johnson "G-d guided and G-d disrupted, but there was always music".–RJB     

  • Orson Welles On Movie Making

       I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. A film is never really…

  • Quotes of the Week

    "If these things were so large, how come everyone missed them." — Britain's Queen Elizabeth asking why economists didn't see the credit crunch coming. "Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of." –Socrates "I don't see problems for Medvedev to establish good relations with Obama, who is also handsome, young and…

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You…

  •     Commenting on the balance sheet of a major investment bank: "On the right side there is nothing left and on the left side there is nothing right."   —A timely little quote relayed to me by my friend Aezaz Hussain. 

  • Some Quotes from the Oracle

    "Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy.  And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true.  If you hire somebody without the first, you really want them to be dumb and lazy. Chains…

  • An Unjaundiced Eye

    "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies." — Groucho Marx "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."–Albert Einstein                                                     …

  • Best Foreign Film 1984

    We all destroy ourselves in one way or another.  What's important is to enjoy oneself in the process.                                      actor- Michael Piccoli                       written by Richard Dembo   

  • A Curious Man

    It's difficult to publicize a man like H.L. Mencken. Viewed as a terrible anti-semite, in reality, a critic of everything, with a penchant for horrific hyperbole.  As one who showed a marked indifference to the ramifications of his diatribes, it is hard to deny his wit. "I never lecture, not because I am shy or…

  • Capricorn Thoughts

    "If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused."–Walter Mondale "When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God-made object like a tree or a flower. If it clashes it is not art."- Paul Cezanne "I was born when you kissed me.  I…

  • Interesting Perspective

    "I'd like to make a great film, provided it doesn't conflict with my dinner reservation." —Woody Allen Woody Allen on his legacy– "Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of the public, I prefer to live on in my apartment."             "I'm eighty-four; my life is almost half over. At my age, I'm…

  • Fond Memories

                                    "I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left." John Leguizamo- [Honeymooners]

  • Innocent Bystander

     "Poisonous lookalike, little miss gun-to-a-knife fight, you're not my girl.  Poisonous lookalike, what have you done with her?"–Warren Zevon

  • Till I get it right

                             "I'll Just keep on falling in love till I get It right.        Right now I'm like a wounded bird.. hungry for the sky.         But If I try my wings…try long enough, I'm bound to learn  to fly.        …

  • Happy Birthday Bob

      "Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood.                            When blackness was a virtue, and the road was full of mud.         I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form              "Come in," she said , "I'll…

  • A Soulful Scientist

    "The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.  It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.  If one were to take that goal out of its…

  • Some Excellent Advice

    "Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen." "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."…

  • 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature

    "Seeking… means to have a goal: but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one , are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose." " The deity is within you, not in ideas…

  • Some Thoughts on War And Peace

      "But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man;  as a…

  • Remembering K.V.

             THANKS FOR BEING HERE!!   "We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful what we pretend to be". "I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over.  Out on the edge you can see all kinds of things you can't see…

  • W.C. Fields –Quotes from the Cantankerous Comedian

                         "My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies." "I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed and fried by people claiming to be my friends.  The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we…

  • Sounds of Interest

    "Like a bird on a wire.   Like a drunk in a midnight choir    I have tried in my way to be free."                          –Leonard Cohen "When the snow is melting from your heart and your soul, I can see your trouble, it has taken its…

  • Interesting Points Of View

    "Labor is prior to, and independent of,capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."–A. Lincoln  [Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3,1861.] "Patriotism means to stand by the country.  It does…

  • Sayings of Benjamin Franklin

    "Guests, like fish, begin  to smell after three days". " Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young". "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut after-wards". "Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it". "Lend…

  • Bernard

    "Life is a tragedy full of joy"- Bernard Malamud

  • Action

      "There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go- if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall."-Bernard Malamud "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."– Kahlil Gibran "The idea is to get the pencil moving…

  • Thoughts

                         "There are in the Middle East today two challenging ideas: old and new. The old ideas will vanish because they are weak and exhausted."–1920's—Kahlil Gibran "Optimism is a great thing-even if it takes a while to bear fruit!"  –RJB- "Now he has departed from this strange world a…

  • Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

        I said to my friend,    "See her leaning over his arm?    Yesterday she leaned over my arm."     And he said:    "Tomorrow she will lean over mine."     And I said,     "See her sitting at his side"     And yesterday she sat at my side."     And he said:     …

  • Some Visceral Comment

    " Don't gamble. Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."–Will Rogers "I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away."–Oscar Levant "Once I make up my mind I'm full of indecision."—Oscar Levant "If…

  • Max And Annie’s Baby Boy

                           "The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt too."–Oscar Levant

  • Gardener and Garden

    "Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the…

  • "Right Track not Right wing"              –Bob Bender