Eclectic quotations accumulating in Hell's Kitchen, NY, USA.

20060731

"To strive,
To seek,
To find,
And not to yield".

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson, (on the chalkboard at Giorgio's Grill this
morning).

20060730

"Conscience is a man's compass."
-- Fortune Cookie

20060729

"One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget".
-- Franklin P. Jones

20060728

"Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear."
-- Thomas C. Haliburton

20060727

"Fear builds walls to bar the light."
-- Baal Shem Tov

20060726

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip".
-- Will Rogers

20060725

"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."
-- Jimmy Breslin

20060724

"What New York has is hipsters; I never thought I would miss them, yet there's something comforting about being able to keep up with trends by just looking at people around you."
-- Ozlem Alkan Karakus, Editor, Time Out Istanbul.

20060723

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
-- Margaret Halsey

20060722

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
-- Mark Twain

20060721

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-- Will Rogers


Image from Faded Giant.

20060720

"Unless you can interest people, you're never going to educate them."
-- Steven Goldstein, former Oprah Producer, as quoted in The New York Blade.

20060719

"Like Joseph Campbell says: 'If you're on a path and it's beaten it's not your path... It's having the initiative to say 'God, that looks somewhat treacherous over there... This might really stir up some personal stuff for me or there's an archetype there that I've been avoiding for a long, long time'... That shadow stuff, that trickster stuff, that authoritative stuff, that rebellious stuff... or that straight down the line simplicity. The answers are there from moment to moment..."
-- Robert Downey, Jr., on Inside the Actor's Studio.


Image from Deluca.

20060718

"I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends."
--Mickey Spillane, 1918-2006


Image from Interlog.

20060717

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
-- Edith Wharton

20060716

"What's another word for Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright

20060715

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
-- William Butler Yeats

20060714

"I've been a performer all my life. It's a very satisfactory profession. You get paid off on the spot. When they cheer, that's payment."
-- Red Buttons, (Aaron Chwatt) 1919-2006



Image from Delafont Agency.

20060713

"Ah yes, my bright tie. I like bright ties. You know, when you reach a certain age, all you've got left is bright ties and bullshit."
-- Bill Clinton, as quoted by NY Magazine's Intellegencer, at opening night of Shakespeare in the Park, by Melena Ryzik.

20060712

"I'm a feeler. As a matter of fact, I think if we had more feelers and less thinkers we'd be a hell of a lot better off - not only in the theater, either."
-- Barnard Hughes, 1915-2006.




Image from Genarians.com

20060711

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
-- Ralph Hodgson

20060710

"Assume nothing."
-- Bumper sticker

20060709

"When all else fails, read the instructions."
-- Agnes Allen

20060708

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
-- Andre Gide

20060707

"We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming".
-- Don Delillo

20060706

"It takes a long time to grow young".
-- Pablo Picasso

20060705

"Happy Birthday! You are young and beautiful and powerful and surrounded by great things".
--
Don Cummings

20060704

"Remember, if our founders hadn't done that brave thing 230 years ago, we'd all be helping pay Prince Charles' salary today."
-- Bob Schieffer, on Face The Nation, Sunday.

20060703

"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."
-- Fred Allen

20060702

"In the circle of life
It's the wheel of fortune
It's the leap of faith
It's the band of hope
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the circle, the circle of life...

"Some of us fall by the wayside
And some of us soar to the stars
And some of us sail through our troubles
And some have to live with the scars"

-- The Lion King, The Circle of Life.

20060701

"If you're looking to change an outdated behavior and annoying habit,
which you'd prefer to replace with something more positive, then the
perspective needed to deal with it is present today. Get serious,
Cancer, as this is the year to advance as far as possible. If stagnating
is not an option, then changes are necessary. Do what you have to do to make it happen, even if it means taking temptation out of arm's reach."

-- Susan Miller, Astrologer, New York Daily News today.