"While we certainly plan to expand, and we want our numbers to go up, we must also scale back."

"We ask that in the coming year, you make an effort to do more...with less."

Ah, how reassuring. In plain English: no extra money. Make gold out of paperclips. And pray. REALLY pray.

"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."

Jangan pilih kata-kata yang populer; Pilih yang kurang populer tapi maknanya serupa atau bikin sesuatu yang orisinil sekalian saja

Gunakan kreativitas dan kenakalan anda; modifikasi atau plesetkan kata-kata mutiara yang ada untuk menyampaikan absurditas pesan anda

Kaitkan kata-kata yang ada dengan peristiwa yang sedang anda alami hari itu. Tidak perlu yang sesuai, yang bertentangan pun bisa

Dari mana/siapa asal usul kutipan favorit anda? Kalau anda tahu, tak ada salahnya menceritakan konteks dan asal-muasal kenapa kalimat itu diucapkan

[Comot satu ide lagi secara acak...]

-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved."
----W.A.Foster

James G. Huneker

----------St. Teresa of Avila

“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women.”

(click here for the video)

She said she had just learned the quote by reading her Starbucks cup, and deemed this coincidence “kind of Providential.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t she implying that women who don’t support her candidacy are going to hell—and that God told her to say so? Yikes. A few things:

1. The quote is wrong. Albright actually said, “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women,” and wasn’t referring to politics.
2. So women who didn’t support Hillary Clinton are going to hell too?
3. How is this in any way reflective of Christian sentiment and theology?

Remember: this was a prepared text, not some hasty and spontaneous utterance. I realize we’re tired of overreactions to sound bites, but it’s sad that she would deliberately say something so perverse while claiming the mantle of Christianity.

Many people wrongly assume that the most important issue among families is money and wealth transfer -- it's not. What we found was the memories, the stories, the values were 10 times more important to people than the money.

Ken Dychtwald is an American psychologist, gerontologist, documentary filmmaker, entrepreneur and best-selling author.

When the news today is primarily about the global financial crisis and many are worried about their future security, it may be of some comfort to know that one of our greatest assets has nothing to do with our monetary wealth. For my mother, who lived through The Great Depression, her memories of that time have little to do with poverty. She recalls the adventure of leaving the city of Winnipeg with her widowed mother and older brother and sister to homestead in the rugged wilderness of northern British Columbia. It was a time remembered for the support of family and strangers, the pleasures of a simple life and the satisfaction of adapting to a new land.

Safely locked in our hearts, our stories can never be devalued by the whims of the stock market.

Photo by Refracted Moments™

I created my house using a piece of corrugated cardboard from a box.  It measures approx 3.75 x 6 inches.

I painted the little wooden dollhouse window and glued my woman on the back.  I have had these windows for so long now and finally got to use one!

The doves are a piece from a tattered fold out card from long ago that I rescued from a junk shoppe.

I have a book from 1929 that has the most luscious thick pages, I seem to be able to find all sorts of great words to cut out of it.


“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~Mother Teresa, 1910-1997

- Commander Riker, Episode 114 Angel One, Season One, Stardate 41636.9

Fiindcă o parte mi s-au părut demne de a fi împărtăşite, iată-le mai jos, precum apar şi în carte.

• Sunt atât de ghinionist, încât dacă aş cumpăra un cimitir nu ar mai muri nimeni. (ED FURGOL)
• Întârzii întotdeauna la serviciu, dar am grijă să recuperez plecând mai devreme. (CHARLES LAMB)
• Luminiţa de la capătul tunelului e a trenului care se apropie. (ROBERT LOWELL)
• Spune-i şefului cu adevărat ce crezi despre el şi adevărul te va elibera. Din funcţie. (PATRICK MURRAY)
• Aş fi putut face eu treaba asta în 20 de minute, dar până la urmă am avut nevoie de 2 zile ca să aflu de ce altcineva avusese nevoie de 3 săptămâni ca să o facă pe dos. (J. L. MCCAFFERTY)
• Nu vă bucuraţi de reducerea impozitelor, e ca şi cum cineva v-ar jefui şi pe urmă v-ar da bani de taxi până acasă. (ARNOLD GLASGOW)
• Soţul meu lucra la o firmă unde plata se făcea pe baza randamentului. După 6 luni a fost somat să aducă bani de acasă. (PHYLLIS DILLER)
• Cei care se mândresc cu ordinea de pe birou n-au simţit niciodată fiorul pe care-l ai când descoperi un obiect pe care-l credeai pierdut şi irecuperabil. (HELEN EXLEY)
• Avocatul este un gentleman învăţat care îţi salvează proprietatea din mâinile duşmanilor şi o păstrează pentru el. (HENRY BROUGHAM)
• La scoţieni verdictul "nedovedid" înseamnă "vinovat, dar să nu mai faci". (WINIFRED DUKE)
• Nu atingeţi genunchiul unei femei la masă; femeia îşi dă seama instinctiv dacă bărbatul care îi atinge genunchiul o mângâie sau doar îşi şterge degetele pline de grăsime pe ciorapul ei. (GEORGE MOORE)
• Pesimistul e omul care, dacă simte miros de flori, caută din priviri coşciugul. (H. L. MENCKEN)
• Îmi pare rău că nu pot veni la petrecere, e seara când bebeluşul iese în oraş, iar eu trebuie să rămân acasă cu bona. (RING LARDNER)
• Moda este o formă de urâţenie atât de greu de suportat, încât trebuie schimbată odată la 6 luni. (OSCAR WILDE)
• Şoferul prudent este cel care se uită în ambele sensuri înainte de a trece pe roşu. (RALPH MARTERIE)
• Oamenii care mă irită sunt cei care militează pentru emanciparea femeilor. Se tot caţără pe lăzi şi proclamă că femeile sunt mai isteţe decât bărbaţii. Aşa este, dar ar trebui să fim discrete, altfel se duce naibii totul. (ANITA LOOS)
• Opera e acea manifestare în care un tip e înjunghiat în spate şi în loc să sângereze, cântă. (EDWARD GARDNER)

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

-Mark Twain

Thinking: Can't think anymore. Thinking bad. Thinking make head hurt.

How to Annoy Me: Find my blog by googling "David and Lauren's wedding October 2008"

How to Charm Me: Help me with my math homework for 6 hours straight. If that doesn't prove love and friendship, I don't know what does.

Quote of the Day: The human head weighs 5 pounds. - Jerry McGuire

And right now, my head weighs more. Night kids.

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we find it not." 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” - Albert Einstein

-Dag Hammarskjold

That quote happens to be a lie at the moment. I've been too busy to do anything, but I anticipate  having lots of time to waste this week. Thank god.