“I read some excellent scientific research that said that as men and women get older, we get happier. I’ve noticed that in myself: sometimes I’ll be reading something, and I’ll be smiling like an idiot…. Read More
“We can’t just stay with the old. We need to acknowledge and still refer to and still play and be connected to older artists. But you can’t just do that because we’re all dying… Even… Read More
“In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever.”— Oscar Wilde Today’s quote comes from a posthumously published lecture Wilde gave called Decorative Art in America. It appeared in print… Read More
“How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.”—… Read More
“Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.”— William Safire The American pundit William Safire was born in the same year as… Read More
“Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.”— Redd Foxx Redd Foxx is best-known for playing Fred Sanford in the show Sanford and Son, although many people didn’t know that Sanford… Read More
“In the ’80s, there was a certain freedom, and a sense of immortality, that ended with that decade. AIDS cracked the earth. With everyone dying, everything shifted. Our history got cut off. We lost a… Read More
“This thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” — Mary Pickford Today’s quote o’ the day is from the Toronto-born actor and producer who became one of America’s… Read More
“I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.”— Bob Hope This quote, taken from comedian Bob Hope’s memoir Don’t Shoot, It’s Always Me, speaks to working hard and… Read More
“Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded as the heavy petting of literature.”— Fran Lebowitz The quote of today comes from Fran Lebowitz’s debut book Metropolitan Life, which established her in… Read More
“Science is a co-operative enterprise, spanning the generations. It’s the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.”— Neil deGrasse… Read More
“You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.”— Richard Branson The above, which comes from the Virgin founder’s 2011 book, Business Stripped Bare, speaks to something I think many… Read More
“No one is promised tomorrow. We cherish real flowers more than fake ones because we know they are fleeting.”—Julie Fratantoni Today’s quote comes from “your friendly neighborhood neuroscientist” and the author of a Substack I… Read More
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”— Jeannette Rankin Jeannette Rankin was a political force a century ago. In 1916, she became the first woman to win federal office… Read More
“The guilty think all talk is of themselves.”— “Geoffrey Chaucer” The quote of the day is a well-known proverb from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, although of course that’s not how he wrote it … modern… Read More