‘A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.’
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth. -Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22
May 1859-1930)
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras. -Arthur Koestler
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Jazz arises from a spirit of love, it comes from the mind and heart and goes through the fingertips. -Mary Lou Williams, pianist, arranger, and composer
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, & a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. -Jerome K. Jerome
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. -Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic, and translator (9 Apr 1821-1867
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet