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Tieng Anh Vui
"If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em."
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Margaret Halsey
"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."
Frank Zappa
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."
Friday, May 3, 2013
Gary Zukav
"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science."
Herm Albright
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
P. B. Medawar
"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Gertrude Stein
"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is."
Samuel Johnson
"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
Unknown
"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it."
Elbert Hubbard
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Old Age #5
A little old man shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlour and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool.
After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split.
The waitress asked kindly, 'Crushed nuts?'
'No,' he replied, 'Arthritis.'
After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split.
The waitress asked kindly, 'Crushed nuts?'
'No,' he replied, 'Arthritis.'
William Hazlitt
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
J. Bartlett Brebner
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."
Monday, April 29, 2013
TEWS: On the up: 29 Apr 13
Things are 'on the up' for Jennifer and Jean at work. Find out why in The English We Speak.
Listen : http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/tae/tae_20130429-1200a.mp3
Shelley Winters
"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."
Sunday, April 28, 2013
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