Quote of the Day: Ending

December 9, 2013

    Nothing ends nicely, that’s why it ends. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (aka “Tom Cruise”), American actor.

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Quote of the Day: Perfect Men

December 8, 2013

    The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot, pen name of Mary Anne Evans, 1819-1880), English journalist and novelist, author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch.  

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Quote of the Day: Cutbacks

December 7, 2013

    Due to recent cutbacks and until further notice, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. Anonymous.

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Quote of the Day: Light at the End of the Tunnel

December 6, 2013

    Politicians are people, who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy more tunnel. Attributed to “John Quinton, American actor/writer.” [via Michelle Ruppert]

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Cultural Council: More Paperwork

December 5, 2013

    Yesterday the Scottsdale Republic published a column I wrote in response to an article from last week about the ‘reinvention’ of the Scottsdale Cultural Council [http://www.scottsdaletrails.com/2013/11/25/cultural-council-reinvention/]: COMMUNITY VOICES: Setting record straight on Cultural Council The Scottsdale Republic’s puff piece on the Scottsdale Cultural Council (Nov. 23, “Cultural Council celebrates past, looks to future”) […]

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Quote of the Day: Petty Thieves

December 5, 2013

    We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop, c. 620-564 BC, legendary Greek storyteller (and possibly slave), credited with the moral lessons of Aesop’s Fables. [Thanks, Michelle Ruppert]

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Quote of the Day: What Counts?

December 4, 2013

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. Albert Einstein, 1871-1955, German-born American who postulated the general theory of relativity; Nobel laureate for theoretical physics and the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.

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Quote of the Day: Never Contradict

December 3, 2013

  Never contradict anyone or seek to prove anything to anyone unless one gets paid for it in cold, hard coin George Jean Nathan, 1882-1958, American editor and drama critic.

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Quote of the Day: Imagine

December 2, 2013

    To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. Albert Einstein, 1871-1955, German-born American who postulated the general theory of relativity; Nobel laureate for theoretical physics and the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.

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Quote of the Day: Bad Officials and Good Citizens

December 1, 2013

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan, 1882-1958, American editor and drama critic.

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