Fancy Terrible

My new favorite quote:

"This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

-Dorothy Parker

Quote of the Day

From Starshine (who else?):

"Hold it! No one touches my spleen!"

For the record, I have absolutely no explanation for this.

How To Write An Incredible Manuscript

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

-Charles Kettering

What He Said

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen” - Frank Lloyd Wright

Quote of the Week

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~William Faulkner

For Inspiration

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull

-Thanks to fellow writer Keli Gwyn for the quote!

Something To Consider

The most interesting and compelling villains are the ones who would describe themselves as heroes of the story. - Janet Reid, literary agent, aka QueryShark

Quotable

Age wrinkles the body; Quitting wrinkles the soul.

- General Douglas MacArthur

Quote of the Week

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

- Anonymous

For Inspiration

"Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."

- John Adams

Political Wisdom

Gathered over the years:

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
-Mark Twain


Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress... But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain


I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like
a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill



A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw



Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian



Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian


Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)



I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers



If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke



Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)


No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866 )


Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown


The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan



The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill


The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain


The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher


What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist


A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

Something to think about as we head into the 2008 elections.

Quote This

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
Arnold H. Glasow

Quote This

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn’t will find an excuse. - Stephen Dolley Jr.

Inspiring Quote of the Week

The difference between the possible and the impossible is one's will. - Hironori Otsuka