"The popularity of a bad man is as treacherous as he is himself."
Pliny the Yonger
62 AD – 112 AD
Category: Quotes
Quote of the Day: Beware of Scientific Progress
"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."
Lewis Thomas
Quote of the Week: On Gifting for Love – Valentine, Parental, or Any Other Kind
"An unworthy and tiresome thing money, at best, but it can at least ease the heart of the lover. When he lightens his purse he lightens his heart, though this can hardly be accounted a virtue, for such giving is perhaps the most insidious form of self-indulgence that is known to mankind."
Radclyffe Hall
Quotes of the Week: Arithmetic of Success
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeeded."
Michael Jordan
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
Woody Allen
Quote of the Week: QOTSA at Barclays Center 12-14-2013
"Most of what you see, my dear, is purely for show,
Because not everything that goes around comes back around, you know.
Holding on too long is just fear of letting go,
Because not everything that goes around comes back around, you know.
One thing that is clear it’s all down hill from here"
Queens of the Stone Age, Like Clockwork
Rock-n-Roll lives! …A Dream Set List!
…Including, a heart-stopping rendition of Make It wit Chu featuring Josh Homme making love to his guitar in a bluesman's solo…
…Plus, the best showcase of Jon Theodore's drumming genius since The Mars Volta's Francis the Mute tour…
…My therapy …My reasons to go on …Enough said.
The Frustrated CFO 