QOD: People don’t play music in New Orleans for the reasons they do in Nashville or L.A. ~ to become stars or to get rich ~ they play because they’ve got to. It’s in the streets, in their family, in their blood. ~ Harry Shearer (né Harry Julius Shearer; b. Dec. 23, 1943), American actor and voice actor
Showing posts with label December 23. Show all posts
Showing posts with label December 23. Show all posts
Friday, 23 December 2022
Thursday, 23 December 2021
Thursday, December 23, 2021
QOD: Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. ~ Donna Tart (b. Dec. 23, 1963), American novelist
Wednesday, 23 December 2020
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
QOD: Romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. ~ Donna Tart (b. Dec. 23, 1963), American novelist
Monday, 23 December 2019
Monday, December 23, 2019
QOD: Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that’s a hard lesson of reality. ~ Donna Tart (b. Dec. 23, 1963), American novelist
Sunday, 23 December 2018
Sunday, December 23, 2018
QOD: Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come ~ even if it came in a living room or to someone with a humble living. ~ Stefan Hell (b. Dec. 23, 1962), German physicist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Friday, 23 December 2016
Friday, December 23, 2016
QOD: If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does
absolute powerlessness make you pure?
~ Harry Shearer (né Harry Julius Shearer; b. Dec. 23, 1943)
Wednesday, 23 December 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
QOD: I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines,
nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. ~
Harry Shearer (b. Dec. 23, 1943), American actor and comedian
Sunday, 23 December 2012
Sunday, December 23, 2012
QOD: When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. ~ Leonard Cohen (né Leonard Norman Cohen; b. Sept. 21, 1934) , Canadian singer-songwriter [Leonard Cohen died on November 7, 2016]
Friday, 23 December 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
QOD: The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal . . . it’s also the reason they hate birds. ~ K.C. Buffington
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
QOD: How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself? ~ Anaïs Nin (née Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell; Feb. 21, 1903 ~ Jan. 14, 1977), French writer