Monday, December 18, 2017

QOD:  My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan – thin, slow, and it leaks.  ~  Ron White (né Ronald Dee White; b. Dec. 18, 1956), American comedian

Sunday, December 17, 2017

QOD:  For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”  ~  John Greenleaf Whittier (Dec. 17, 1807 ~ Sept. 7, 1892), American poet

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, 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, 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 (né Christian Johann Heinrich Heine, Dec. 13, 1797 ~ Feb. 17, 1856), German writer

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, 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