"Honor and Virtue are adornments of the soul, without which the body is not truly beatiful, even if it appears to be so."
Miguel Cervantes, "Don Quixote"
Jock might have more to his name, and he might not, but if he does he never mentions it. If you should happen to meet him, today, tomorrow, or next year, along the country lanes of England, or Scotland, or Ireland, you will just naturally stop and pass the time of day..." "From Fair To Fair" by Jean Ritchie
"Commerce and government are not primary, they are secondary institutions. They are derivative of the primary institution, which is the culture where people live their lives."
Jeremy Rifkin, from the documentary film, "The Coorporation"
"Teaching is, after all, a form of entertainment."
~Steve Martin
"Go out on a limb, that's where the fruit is." -Will Rogers
"Humane learning leaves an aura like a ray of bright light shining on those who come after."
~Abdul Latif, scholar and poet, 1689-1752
"Be the change you wish to see in the world"~ Mohandas Gandhi
"When it's too tough for everybody, it's just about tough enough for me." ~Leghorn the Piper
"It's no secret that a liar
won't believe anyone else."
~Bono
"Kill off all my demons,
and my angels might die too."
~
Tennessee Williams
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
~ Helen Keller
"At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself."
~Jeff Lynne of ELO
The concept album Secret Messages was based on Lynne's reaction to ELO being bizarrely labelled "devil-worshippers" as a result of supposedly backward-masking satanic messages in their songs. "Skcollob" was one of the bands' politer responses.
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument, and an unsuspected yearning to learn to play on it, that are bound to wake up and demand attention some day. Therefore, you who rail at such as disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a fiddle, beware! for sooner or later your own time will come.
Mark Twain ~ "A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood"
If at first you don't succeed,
then parachuting is probably not for you.
