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, 26 August 2016

Friday, August 26, 2016

QOD:  We ourselves feel that what we are doing in just a drop in the ocean.  But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.  ~  Mother Teresa (Aug. 26, 1910 ~ Sept. 5, 1997)

Thursday, 25 August 2016

Thursday, August 25, 2016

QOD:  This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, and more devotedly than ever before.  ~  Leonard Bernstein (Aug. 25, 1918 ~ Oct. 14, 1990)

Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

QOD:  The world can’t tell you who you are.  You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.  ~  Dave Chappelle (nĂ© David Khari Webber Chappelle; b. Aug. 24, 1973)

Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

QOD:  If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to, and learn from, each other’s stories.  ~  Queen Noor of Jordan (nĂ©e Lisa Najeeb Halaby;  b. Aug. 23, 1951)

Monday, 22 August 2016

Monday, August 22, 2016

QOD:  There are worse crimes than burning books.  One of them is not reading them.  ~  Ray Bradbury (nĂ© Ray Douglas Bradbury; Aug. 22, 1920 ~ June 5, 2012)

Sunday, 21 August 2016

Sunday, August 21, 2016

QOD:  You always hear the phrase: “Money doesn’t buy happiness.”  But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness.  But it’s not really true.  ~  Sergey Brin (b. Aug. 21, 1973)