Sunday, August 21, 2022

QOD:  The society that has accepted the threat of its utter destruction soon finds it hard to react to lesser ills, for a society cannot be at the same time asleep and awake, insane and sane, against life and for life.  ~  Jonathan Schell (Aug. 21, 1943 ~ Mar. 24, 2014), American author and activist

Friday, August 21, 2020

QOD:  To write is to sell a ticket to escape, not from the truth but into it.  ~  Alexander Chee (b. Aug. 21, 1967), American novelist

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

QOD:  If you play a tune and a person don’t tap their feet, don’t play the tune.  ~  Count Basie (né William James Basie; Aug. 21, 1904 ~ Apr. 26, 1984), American musician

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

QOD:  Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.  ~ Usain Bolt (né Usain St. Leo Bolt; b. Aug. 21, 1986)

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)

Friday, August 21, 2015

QOD:  We want Google to be the third half of your brain.  ~  Sergey Brin (b. Aug. 21, 1973)

Thursday, August 21, 2014

QOD:  If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?  Wilt Chamberlain (Aug. 21, 1936 ~ Oct. 12, 1999)

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

QOD:  Really rejoice in being yourself.  Have your own drumbeat.  ~  Kim Cattrall (née Kim Victoria Cattrell;  b. Aug. 21, 1956)

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

QOD:  Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.  ~  George Orwell (né Eric Arthur Blair; June 25, 1903 ~ Jan. 21, 1950)

Sunday, August 21, 2011

QOD: Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.  ~  Clara Barton (née Clarissa Harlowe Barton; Dec. 25, 1821 ~ Apr. 12, 1912)