Month: September 2013

  • You’re not yourself today.  It’s nice.

  • I try to watch what I eat and yet my eyes just aren’t quick enough.

  • There’s a bunch of different crunches that affect the abs…my favorite is Nestle’s.

  • Computer games don’t affect kids. I mean, if PacMan affected us as kids, we’d be running around in darkened rooms munching on pills and listening to repetitive music.

  • Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ~ Oscar Wilde

  • I find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at.

  • And which dwarf are you?

  • I saw a woman crying as she was buying tampons earlier. Must be going through a tough period in her life.

  • With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. — Ransom K. Ferm

  • I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless; the poison is in the sugar.  ~ Stanislaw J. Lec

  • A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.  ~ Carrie Snow

  • If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base. ~ Dave Barry

  • If you don’t care where you are, you ain’t lost.

  • Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. ~ Stewart Brand

  • Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ~ Miguel de Cervantes

  • Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. ~ Maria Montessori

  • Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~ Maya Angelou

  • Parkinson’s Law / Throop’s Corollary

    Parkinson’s Law Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Throop’s Corollary To keep work from expanding to fill all your time, you must strictly limit the time available for its completion.

  • The real world is not user-friendly.

  • Why does our culture consider supervising good work more deserving of respect and compensation than doing good work?

  • Just because there’s twilight doesn’t mean you can’t tell the difference between night and day.

  • Rules are solutions to yesterday’s problems.

  • A life consisting exclusively of things that are Good For You is bad for you.

  • Isn’t it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists. ~ Kelvin R. Throop III

  • The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ~Saint Jerome