Tagged: quoteoftheday

I sat in McDonald's today drinking a Dr. Pepper, doing homework for school, and watching two girls make out in the corner. While I'm unashamed of my moral convictions that run contrary to what I witnessed, I'm embarrassed by some of the condescending thoughts that ran through my head. I want to be someone whose first instinct is love and grace. My struggle reminded me of this quote I read in East of Eden last night: "You are one of those rare people who can separate your [...]

© Bryan Schutmaat Lonesome Dove begins with this epigraph from T.K. Whipple. It seems to sum up my heart for the West, the wilderness, and traveling back in time. - Joel "All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, [...]

As a Christian, I'm inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr's radical devotion to Jesus. Yet no matter one's religious belief/disbelief, King's message of love and sacrifice are admirable. In honor of MLK Day, here are a few quotes from Dr. King. - Joel "Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase." "Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree [...]

A friend tweeted a link to this letter written by author John Steinbeck (Of Mice And Men, East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath) to his son Thom on the topic of love. I found it to be delicately insightful, especially the last line: "Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away." - Joel New York November 10, 1958 Dear Thom: We had your letter this morning. I [...]

I've been meaning to post this quote for awhile. It comes from Chuck Klosterman's book "The Visible Man." What an interesting take on technological advances. - Joel "Everything science gives us immediately becomes normative. To an eighty-year-old man, a computer is this amazing device that creates instantaneous access to limitless information. He can't get his head around it. But to a twenty-year-old man, the computer is a limited machine that costs too much and always needs to be faster. Because human live finite lives, all technological advances immediately feel banal to whatever generation inherits [...]

I watched a documentary about Mike Tyson over the weekend and found myself struck by something his long-time trainer, Cus D'Amato, said. D'Amato's was speaking about his passion for identifying the strengths of young boxers. Yet his approach seems like a good disposition of the heart towards people in everyday life. - Joel "What I do is discover and uncover." - Cus D'Amato

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." – [...]

"‎Billionaires are just salt of the earth people...in that they own salt mines, and much of the earth, and some people" -S. Colbert Hat tip to Brad over at Facebook.

"The world can be split into two camps: people that like Neil Young and people that don't. And the people that don't are fucking idiots. Mind you, I wish he'd spend more than a week making an album." -Noel Gallagher, Mojo Magazine , September 2011

Photo by G. Jonathan Pierce This actually might be the quote of the year! When The Drums' lead singer was recently interviwed by Clickmusic , they asked him what it was like supporting Kings of Leon on tour. This is what Jonathan had to say: "I would advise them to split up and stop making music. I don't think they're really helping anybody – they've never made a song that's really touched me in any way. I think the less bands that are [...]

Quote of the Day "I refuse to believe corporations are people until Texas executes one." - Ara Rubyan Hat tip to Danny L. over on Facebook.

Photo by G. Justin Vernon (with the red glasses) "....But can I just ask, the reader, us, we ... as non-rhetorically as possible: don't we seem dumb? didn't MTV lose the fight against themselves? Didn't Rock'n'Roll STOP? Why are the lights so bright? isn't our talent as artists enough? Why do we try SO hard? Does a moonman mean what it did back then? Should we feel pumped when we get one? Should our mom's cry? I am not even thinking about it that hard. I will [...]

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should street streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I'll admit that old Western films have some pretty cheesy dialogue. However that makes them all the more enjoyable for me. Here are a few memorable quotes from movies I've watched recently. - Joel "When ya pull a gun, kill a man!" -- Old Man Clanton, My Darling Clementine (1946) "There are only two things more beautiful than a gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere." --Cherry Valance, Red River (1948) "Fear not! Their wits are as slow as their blades." -- Zorro, The Mark of Zorro [...]

Photo by G. Plan B Ben Drew, better known as Plan B won 3 Ivor Novello Awards in England yesterday. I really love his album "The Defamation of Strickland Banks." It's got so many styles of music including soul, rap, pop, jazz and I think every song on it is great. Most of the world has caught on, but not surprisingly, the album is too genre defying for America. Plan B spoke about not making it big in America and he said this: "I'm too white [...]

Photo by G. Morrissey: The Queen is Alive. Democracy is Dead. Morrissey is getting a lot of bad press for speaking up on his feelings about the Queen and the Royal Family. I think he makes a pretty valid point and I am happy he is speaking up. Here's a bit of what Moz said from his article he wrote for Hot Press: "[The Queen] warned that any British people carrying anti-royal placards who are "seen in the vicinity of the royal wedding [...]

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"I think you can say that the real star of my Westerns has always been the land." - John Ford, Director