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, 15 December 2017

Friday, December 15, 2017

QOD:  If you want your checkbook to follow your heart, make a donation to those doing work you support.  ~  Donna Brazile (b. Dec. 15, 1959), American politician strategist

Thursday, 14 December 2017

Thursday, December 14, 2017

QOD:  Confrontation is not a dirty word.  Sometimes it’s the best kind of journalism as long as you don’t confront people just for the sake of confrontation.  ~  Don Hewitt (Dec. 14, 1922 ~ Aug. 19, 2009), American television producer

Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

QOD:  Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things.  A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.  ~  Heinrich Heine (nĂ© Christian Johann Heinrich Heine, Dec. 13, 1797 ~ Feb. 17, 1856), German writer

Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

QOD for the First Night of Chanukah:  May the lights of Chanukah usher in a better world for all humankind.  ~  Author Unknown

Monday, 11 December 2017

Monday, December 11, 2017

QOD:  Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.  ~  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Dec. 11, 1918 ~ Aug. 3, 2008), Russian novelist and recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature

Sunday, 10 December 2017

Sunday, December 10, 2017

QOD:  Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.  ~  Emily Dickinson (Dec. 10, 1830 ~ May 15, 1886), American poet