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Post by Siren on Feb 2, 2013 11:46:29 GMT -6
I'm convinced that the universe conspires with you when you put out a good message and help people.
~ Carmen De La Paz of HGTV's "Hammer Heads"
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Post by Phalon on Feb 3, 2013 6:36:26 GMT -6
That follows along the same lines of another quotes I read recently...
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” ~ Ghandi
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Post by Siren on Feb 19, 2013 21:48:30 GMT -6
"Don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone. You don't have to be perfect... just believe in yourself."
~Vin Diesel, whose music video Valentine for his sweetheart has gone viral
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Post by Phalon on Feb 20, 2013 8:15:06 GMT -6
Great advice from Mr. Diesel. It kind of reminds me of something I read on the coffee shop bathroom wall recently (on a poster): "Learn from new and uncomfortable angles." It's part of a long list from a "How to Build Community" poster. I thought it was kind of neat. syracuseculturalworkers.com/poster-how-build-community
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Post by stepper on Feb 20, 2013 17:37:26 GMT -6
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. Mae West
Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream. Barbara Winkler
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Post by Siren on Feb 23, 2013 8:41:49 GMT -6
Oooo, wonderful stuff, my friends. That gardening quote makes me think I'm more optimistic than I realize! There's lots of sprouting, opening, and unfurling going on around here. The snow and rain we received this week have already had an affect. It's remarkable how quickly things have greened-up, now that we got some moisture in the ground.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 4, 2013 7:00:43 GMT -6
This one isn't really a quote; it's a parable.
"A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, “I am making stones.” He asked a stone carver what he was doing. “I am carving a gargoyle.” And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said. “I am helping build a cathedral.”
Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture."
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Post by Siren on Mar 6, 2013 20:52:24 GMT -6
That's true, Gams. I think most people underestimate the importance of what they do. "If you can't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it!" ~lovely, London-born Oscar-winner Greer Garson, who got her Hollywood break at the ripe old age of 33
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Post by stepper on Mar 17, 2013 19:18:23 GMT -6
Brain cells come, and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever. Unk.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 26, 2013 6:07:47 GMT -6
Siren, I love your quotes and pictures of the old silver-screen stars. I've been meaning to get one up of Hedy Lamarr, but it means actually going into Photobucket to host it, and I haven't been in the hostess mood lately.
Here's one of the best Mom-to-Kid quotes I believe I've ever heard (could be applied to significant others too at times too)....
"Your lack of preparation does not constitute my emergency." ~ Xena Sis to Eighteen Year Old Son
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Post by Siren on Apr 5, 2013 7:09:28 GMT -6
I have seen that quote posted in multiple workplaces. I love it! Thank you, Gams. I'm glad to share the quotes and photos. I'd love to hear/see that from Hedy. She was a highly intelligent person behind a distractingly gorgeous - I mean, truly gorgeous - face. Last month, "Sunday Morning on CBS" (one of my favorite shows) told how Hedy helped invent the technology that is used today in WiFi. www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57390196/hedy-lamarr-movie-star-inventor-of-wifi/~~~~~~~~~~ "You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream." ~ C.S. Lewis
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Post by Siren on Apr 13, 2013 15:10:07 GMT -6
You have to feel sort of free enough to make mistakes, so you can be good. If you're not free enough to make mistakes, then you won't be good..you can't be great.
~Oscar-winner Cher, on acting
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Post by Phalon on Apr 14, 2013 6:53:51 GMT -6
Great insight from Cher, Siren. I read a similar article about Hedy during Women's History Month. Despite what she achieved, movie producer Pandro Berman once said of her, "Hedy has no talent and is not an important person in any way." The quote regarded her career, and he went on to say acting is more than just being "icy beautiful". I thought it was sad that despite her intelligence, she was mostly judged by her beauty, and became a recluse after what most reports call botched plastic surgery. Here's an interesting story (not the one first I read during Women's History month) that explains Hedy's back-story behind the invention. www.odessaoffice.com/wireless/Origin_Of_Wireless.html
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Post by Siren on Apr 15, 2013 19:53:53 GMT -6
Do you have a link for that Berman quote, Gams? I'd like to read what else he had to say. What he said was so cruel, it makes me wonder if he hit on her at some point (perhaps while he was producing one of her big hits, "Ziegfeld Girl"), and she shot him down? And speaking of "Ziegfeld Girl", here are a few gems from one of Hedy's co-stars (the other was Lana Turner).... "I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back." "How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child." "We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality." ~Judy Garland
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Post by Phalon on Apr 16, 2013 6:06:01 GMT -6
I found the quote, Siren, when I was drilling her radio frequency invention; it came from a review of the book "Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film". I'm not sure if it was the book itself, or just the reviewers commentary on it, but the article paints a rather negative picture of Hedy. www.edgenewyork.com/?108148
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Post by Siren on May 4, 2013 8:29:26 GMT -6
Thank you, Gams. Was just watching another of Hedy's movies last night - "I Take This Woman". So, so beautiful. Getting back to words-well-said, here's a collection from the very quotable Gore Vidal, including... “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” flavorwire.com/314405/the-quotable-gore-vidal-20-of-his-best-zingers
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Post by stepper on May 4, 2013 21:32:05 GMT -6
Happiness is a journey, not a destination; happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it's too late. The time for happiness is today not tomorrow. ~ Paul H Dunn
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Post by Phalon on May 25, 2013 4:46:24 GMT -6
Something I read on-line made me think 'dang, I have to remember that'. It referred to the heat in some peppers.
"...as hot as a flea under Satan's armpit."
If this summer is even close to being as hot as last summer, it'll be a useful phrase to remember.
Then there's the variation that comes to mind to use on complaining kids: "You are as miserable as a flea under Satan's armpit."
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Post by stepper on May 25, 2013 19:25:55 GMT -6
We Shall Keep the Faith by Moina Michael, November 1918
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet - to rise anew! We caught the torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red That grows on fields where valor led; It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies, But lends a lustre to the red Of the flower that blooms above the dead In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red We wear in honor of our dead. Fear not that ye have died for naught; We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought In Flanders Fields.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 15, 2013 5:09:06 GMT -6
My friend said this the other day, although it isn't her quote and the author is unknown.
"Insanity does not run in my family; it strolls through, takes it’s time, and gets to know everyone personally."
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Post by stepper on Jun 15, 2013 16:38:15 GMT -6
The abandonment of the republic is a matter of two steps: from being “the people” to “the governed”, then “the policed.” I found this in an unusual comic called Pibgorn. What made it notable was that it is a political comment in a series that is anything but political.
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Post by scamp on Jun 16, 2013 1:20:07 GMT -6
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Kierkegaard
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Post by Siren on Oct 11, 2013 21:28:55 GMT -6
“She gets up too early, plays tennis too hard, wastes time and feeling on trifles and drinks Coca-Colas the way Samuel Johnson used to drink tea. She is a scribbler on telephone pads, inhibited nail-nibbler, toe-puller, pillow-grabber, head-and-elbow scratcher, and chain cigarette smoker. When Carole Lombard talks, her conversation, often brilliant, is punctuated by screeches, laughs, growls, gesticulations and the expletives of a sailor’s parrot.” ~Life Magazine, 1937
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Post by Phalon on Oct 13, 2013 6:50:45 GMT -6
I thought of you the other evening, Siren, and your love of old movies. A barn converted into a theater near here (hence its name, The Red Barn Theater), was showing the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Spellbound", starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. I so wanted to see it, but it was last minute, and I couldn't find anyone else who wanted to go; even my movie buff friend said 'why pay to see an old movie, when you can probably check it out free from the library '. Pfft! Just not the same as seeing it on a big screen, and I thought to myself, 'I bet if Siren was here, she'd go with me - I'd even get her popcorn'. (Popcorn, btw, is free at the Red Barn, but it's the thought that counts, yes?)
“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” ~ Ingrid Bergman
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Post by Siren on Oct 13, 2013 20:58:12 GMT -6
I love the idea of The Red Barn Theater! Would really enjoy seeing a movie in that environment. And free popcorn, too? Certainly, I would have ridden shotgun for you that night. And "Spellbound" would have been great to see in a theater. There's a dream sequence designed by Dali which is justifiably famous. And with Peck and Bergman, it is certainly a feast for the eyes. Though it would have been more fun to share the movie with someone, take it from an old singleton like me, you must not miss fun experiences because you don't want to go alone. Though it will feel a bit odd at first, you will soon not notice that at all. And it's worth it for what you don't miss out on.
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Post by Siren on Oct 21, 2013 15:52:13 GMT -6
"My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax." ~Susan Hayward, who began as a hat model, and wound up with 5 Best Actress Oscar nominations, including one win. (Her winning film was 1958's "I Want To Live!", where she played Barbara Graham, a real-life shady lady who was, allegedly, framed for murder, and went to the gas chamber.) Hayward was known as cool and aloof on-set when the cameras weren't rolling, but a true professional. She died at 57 of brain cancer, allegedly caused by exposure to radioactive dust while making "The Conqueror" (1956) on-location in Utah with John Wayne.
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Post by Siren on Oct 29, 2013 7:38:28 GMT -6
""When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the quotation, 'The end is nothing, the road is all.'" ~one of my favorite authors, Willa Cather. The 140th anniversary of her birth will be December 7th.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 6, 2013 8:11:35 GMT -6
It probably seems a weird thing for me to comment on about your post, Siren, but I love all that detailed work on the jacket Willa Cather is wearing in that photo. Actually, though it's probably 100 years old, I'd love to have that jacket, and would wear it too.
Fashions make me laugh, actually. When I was going through Mom's things, I brought home all her clothing from the 50s and 60s, because I knew my brother would just toss it, and there was some gorgeous stuff in there. Mom was bigger than I am, so most of it I put on e-bay, and it sold for much more than I ever imagined. I kept her sweaters from the 50s though, and though they're kind of large on me, I wear them all the time.
And while I raided Mom's closet from 50 years ago, LX has raided mine. Remember about 10 to 15 years ago, when jeans were cut above the waist? Remember about 4 years ago when my kids laughed because I still wore them? Apparently, high-waisted jeans are back "in". Now they're not called "Mom Jeans", and they've got to be worn with a short sweater, so just about an inch of skin shows between the hem of the sweater, and waist-line of the jeans.
In a couple of years, it'll be over-sized sweaters, and either BP or LX will raid my closet again, for Mom's sweaters. With two daughters, it's all about the fashion.
I am more likely to follow Gilda Radner's fashion sense: "I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
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Post by Siren on Nov 18, 2013 13:10:33 GMT -6
I'm not surprised that your eye for beauty noticed that jacket, Gams. But I am surprised that hideous, high-waisted jeans are back. Mine were trashed long ago. And good riddance! I look back at photos of myself wearing them and think, "What was I thinking?" In junior high, on '50s Day at school, I wore my mom's high school letter jacket from the class of '55. I liked it so much, I continued wearing it till I got my own. For '50s Day, I also wore her class ring, the same one that's on my hand today. I've worn it (on days when I wear gold) ever since. Neat coincidence: in college, I was sharing lunch with a classmate. She stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence, and placed her hand next to mine. She was wearing a vintage class ring, too, almost identical to mine. Turned out our mothers were classmates. Can you believe that? ~~~~~~~~ I love this quote from a Harper-Collins editor describing Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-winning author, who has died at age 94. "Even in very old age she was always intellectually restless, reinventing herself, curious about the changing world around us, always completely inspirational." What an admirable way to be remembered! www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/18/245769762/doris-lessing-nobel-prize-winning-author-dies
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Post by Phalon on Nov 19, 2013 7:25:48 GMT -6
I should probably clarify - the "high-waisted" jeans that are back - the ones that LX scammed from my closet - aren't the ones that had a waistline that came all the way up to just below your chest, so that it looked as if your breasts were sitting on a shelf. Yes, those were hideous (and are also making a come-back). The jeans I'm talking about sit right above your belly-button - not 6 inches below like the low-rise jeans of the last few years. Talk about hideous - a person had to be a teenager and rail-thin to get away with wearing them, looking good, and not having a plumber's waistline in the back.
Cool story, Siren. What a coincidence! Did they know each other?
For a person who loves to read, I am astounded at how ill-read I am. I have never heard of Doris Lessing, much less read any of her books. Same with Willa Cather - though I did check out the shelves at the used book store while I was there about a week or so ago; there's two shelves of her books there. I was on a mission at the time though, and only bought what I came for.
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