Ernest Hemingway

For sale
Baby shoes
Never worn

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

"Marley was dead, to begin with."

naps

"Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list." --Dennis Leary

one in a thousand

great quote:

"The rate of incarceration in most other rich, free countries, whatever the differences in their histories, is remarkably steady. In countries with Napoleonic justice or common law or some mixture of the two, in countries with adversarial systems and in those with magisterial ones, whether the country once had brutal plantation-style penal colonies, as France did, or was once itself a brutal plantation-style penal colony, like Australia, the natural rate of incarceration seems to hover right around a hundred men per hundred thousand people. (That doesn’t mean it doesn’t get lower in rich, homogeneous countries—just that it never gets much higher in countries otherwise like our own.) It seems that one man in every thousand once in a while does a truly bad thing. All other things being equal, the point of a justice system should be to identify that thousandth guy, find a way to keep him from harming other people, and give everyone else a break."

from:  Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker

i call it a realist

“I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.” -- Leonard Cohen

Gloria Steinem

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.”

Mark Twain

“The North thinks it know how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.”

oldie but goodie

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." --Mary Wollstonecraft

and i quote

"Doing a thing well is often a waste of time." -- Robert Byrne

today's quote

i really feel this one:

"Reality continues to ruin my life." -- Bill Watterson

Niels Bohr

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

a phd is an expert

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." -- Niels Bohr

is it?

"it's easier to build strong children that to repair broken men." - frederick douglass

how true it is

"Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." -- Quentin Crisp

Fredrick Douglass

"It's easier to raise strong children than it is to repair broken men."

(i've always loved this one. it is one small line on a collage hanging in my bathroom.)

quote for the day

"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon." -- George Aiken

Jimmy Calano

"Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word.
First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore.
Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension."

(i think this applies to the PhD program.)

Winston Churchill

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

my goal for tonight is to get my taxes done

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." -- Herman Wouk

oh this is fitting sometimes

"If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." -- Paul Beatty