Quotes you love/live by

[rtse11]

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

 

[da man]

Sometimes the light's all shining on me
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me
What a long, strange trip it's been.

 

[jackfinarelli]

"Always drink upstream from the herd." Will Rogers

 

[dixiehack]

 

[PCLoadLetter]

 

[Gutter]

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Is that true?

 

[da man]

Is that true?

It must be true. John and Paul said so.

 

[ChrisLong]

High school basketball coach: "We played really well. If basketball didn't involve shooting, we would won easily."

High school baseball coach Benny Lefebvre, father of Jimmy: "Baseball is the great equalizer. On a given day, I could take my team over to USC and we could beat 'em. In football, no way."

 

[Dog8Cats]

This quote from Leo Rosten was my mom's. I learned from the Rabbi's eulogy at her funeral last November that she carried a copy in her purse:

"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be 'happy'. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compashionate. It is, above all, to matter; to count, to stand for something, to have made a difference that you lived at all."

That's really, really good. Thanks for posting.

 

[Dog8Cats]

"This life is hard, man, and it's harder if you're stupid."

Abridged, probably without knowledge of the above, by a former ME, when he found out a staffer had "broken" big news on his private Twitter rather than having the paper own the news: "This work is hard enough ... ."

 

[I Should Coco]

Newsroom division:

"The newspaper will come out without you."

 

[Wenders]

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

"Not all who wander are lost."