QOD

This blog purely for my own amusement. I like to start the day with a quote, be it amusing, inspiration, or simply something that caught my fancy.

On occasion, I might also include some commentary on the day's crossword puzzle that is published in the Los Angeles Times.

Friday, 28 March 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014

QOD:  There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.  ~  Mario Vargas Llosa (b. Mar. 28, 1936), Peruvian author and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature

Thursday, 27 March 2014

Thursday, March 27, 2014

QOD:  Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.  ~  Edward Steichen (nĂ© Edward Jean Steichen; Mar. 27, 1879 ~ Mar. 25, 1973)

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

QOD:  Even more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.  ~  Viktor Frankl (nĂ© Viktor Emil Frankl; Mar. 26, 1905 ~ Sept. 2, 1997), Austrian neurologist and Holocaust survivor

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

QOD:  The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.  ~  Flannery O’Connor (nĂ©e Mary Flannery O'Connor; Mar. 25, 1925 ~ Aug. 3, 1964), Southern author

Monday, 24 March 2014

Monday, March 24, 2014

QOD:  But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.  ~  Marston Morse (nĂ© Harold Calvin Marston Morse; Mar. 24, 1892 ~ June 22, 1977), American mathematician.

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Sunday, March 23, 2014

QOD:  Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.  ~  Erich Fromm (nĂ© Erich Selgmann Fromm; Mar. 23, 1900 ~ Mar. 18, 1980), German-born psychologist and psychoanalyst