22nd Reading
01-22-12
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3rd SUNDAY 01-22-12
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 We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. Anaïs Nin |
 Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. Lemony Snicket Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid |
 If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever. Alfred Lord Tennyson |
 Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. Albert Einstein |
 The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, was published in serial form in 1841, readers all over Britain and the United States followed the progress of the heroine, Little Nell, with the same fervor that audiences today follow Harry Potter. When the ship carrying the last installment approached the dock in New York, 6,000 impatient fans onshore called out to the sailors, "Does Little Nell die?" |
 Tim Christensen |
 If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E.B. White |
 D.B. Pacini introducing Katy Brown |
 A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. Steve Martin |
 Featured Poet/Photographer Katy Brown |
 A beautiful marriage of poetry and photography. |
 Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles William Eliot |
 I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. Dr. Seuss |
 If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll |
 Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. G.K. Chesterton |
 No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop |
 Don't kill the dream - execute it. Anonymous |
 A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. |
 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. |
 The line, "To boldly go where no man has gone before" was hijacked verbatim from a 1957 White House booklet on space exploration. It is one of the more famous examples of a split infinitive and is grammatically incorrect. |
 Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi |
 Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C.S. Lewis |
 I'm nobody, who are you? Emily Dickinson |
 We'll be friends forever,won't we, Pooh? asked Piglet. Even longer, Pooh answered. A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh |
 The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before. |
 When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the fire department usually uses water. |
 When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth. Sherlock Holmes |
 Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. C.S. Lewis |
 If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a picture of a thousand words worth? |
 Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. Robert Ingersoll |
 The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. Henry Bolingbroke |
 Never fear shadows. They always mean there is a light shining somewhere. Jonathan Santos |
 Sucking all the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. Dead Poets Society |
 What one man can invent, another can discover. Sherlock Holmes |
 Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing. |
 A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson |
 If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put U and I together. |
 Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. C.S. Lewis |
 If I think, and therefore I am, am I just a thought? |
 There was no punctuation until the 15th century. |
 We write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside us. We edit to let the fire show through the smoke. Arthur Plotnik |
 Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well |
 There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Charles Dickens |
 All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Charles M. Schulz |
 Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? |
 During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings. |
 During his lifetime, Herman Melville's Moby Dick sold only 50 copies. |
 The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley |
 The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) |
 Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds? |
 'Almost' is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. |
 "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? George Carlin |
 Taylor Graham |
 You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West |
 Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature. Anita Brookner, The Debut (1981) |
 Charles Dickens had to be facing north before he could write a word. |
 Hatch Graham |
 For the last 12 years of his life, Casanova was a librarian. |
 It took Noah Webster 36 years to write his first dictionary. |
 Leo Tolstoy wrote a large book called War and Peace before computers and copying machines. His wife had to copy his manuscript by hand seven times. |
 Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. |
 Marvin Smith |
 Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain |
 You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. C.S. Lewis |
 What was the best thing before sliced bread? |
 The next time you feel like complaining remember: Your garbage disposal probably eats better than thirty percent of the people in this world. |
 It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Oscar Wilde |
 J. Lynn o'Flaherty |
 Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink. |
 We read to know that we are not alone. C.S. Lewis |
 When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings. |
 The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. |
 Jared Coffey |
 Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, "Where the heck is the ceiling?" |
 Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me ... anything can happen, child, anything can be. Shel Silverstein |
 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night |
 Cynmarie |
 The only commonly-used English word which has a syllable without a vowel or an apostrophe is "Rhythm". |
 What's another word for thesaurus? |
 When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny? |
 What do Greeks say when they don't understand something? |
 Where does the white go when the snow melts? |
 Jim Turner |
 What do you say when someone says you're in denial, but you're not? |
 Is there anything easier done than said? |
 Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C.S. Lewis |
 At a movie theater which arm rest is yours? |
 What does the T in T-Shirt really mean? |
 Glen Dais |
 Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? |
 Since there is a rule that states "i" before "e" except after "c", wouldn't "science" be spelled wrong? |
 A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. |
 Sarah Moschella |
 The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand |
 Emily Dickinson wrote more than nine hundred poems, only four of which were published during her lifetime. In her will, she asked that all of her poems be destroyed, but her family refused to carry out this wish. |
 I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe |
 Jerry Swafford |
 Marvin Smith & Jerry Swafford |
 If Plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters. Keep calm. |
 What's another word for synonym? |
 Why is the name of the phobia for the fear of long words hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia? |
 Poet/Musician D.R. Wagner |
 D.R. Wagner will be our feaured poet/musician 02-26-12. |
 There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade. |
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, was the first novel written on a typewriter. |
 Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story. Before he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget" the genre was totally unknown in English or American literature. |
 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" in only three days. Dissatisfied with the results, he burned the original manuscript and completely rewrote it in three more days. He claims the entire story came to him in a dream. |
 The word 'bookkeeper' is the only word in the English language with 3 back-to-back double letter combinations. |
 How far east can you go before you're heading west? |
 Jarod Hensel |
 A woman with light yellow hair is called a blonde. A man with light yellow hair is a blond. Blonde and blond are gender specific and are not interchangeable. |
 A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood. |
 Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? |
 Poet Trish |
 All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. Ernest Hemingway |
 Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard |
 Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. William Wordsworth |
 One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment. Hart Crane |
 A room without books is like a body without a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero |
 Katy's orchid plant. |
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