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, 21 December 2018

Friday, December 21, 2018

QOD:  There are more love songs than anything else.  If songs could make you do something, we’d all love one another.  ~  Frank Zappa (né Frank Vincent Zappa; Dec. 21, 1940 ~ Dec. 4, 1993), American musician

Thursday, 20 December 2018

Thursday, December 20, 2018

QOD:  Intelligence requires that you don’t defend an assumption.  ~  David Bohm (né David Joseph Bohm; Dec. 20, 1917 ~ Oct. 27, 1992), American physicist

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

QOD:  My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.  ~  Eric Allin Cornell (b. Dec. 19, 1961), recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

Tuesday, 18 December 2018

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

QOD:  A line is a dot that went for a walk.  ~  Paul Klee (Dec. 18, 1879 ~ June 29, 1940), Swiss artist

Monday, 17 December 2018

Monday, December 17, 2018

QOD:  Last, but not least, avoid clichés like the plague.  ~  William Safire (né William Lewis Safire; Dec. 17, 1929 ~ Sept. 27, 2009)

Sunday, 16 December 2018

Sunday, December 16, 2018

QOD:  Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. ~ Jane Austen (Dec. 16, 1775 ~ July 18, 1817), English novelist