From the category archives:

Who Says

A 50 Percent Chance

December 29, 2012

  Haven’t done a formal test, but seems that 80% of the time I try to insert a USB plug into my laptop,  I get it the wrong way.                    ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson  

Read the full article →

Listening in Charlottesville – Thoughts From Gore

August 5, 2012

“Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers.  I hope it’s the same fifty percent.                                    ~  Gore Vidal, author “A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”                   ~ Gore Vidal “All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.”                              ~Gore Vidal [...]

Read the full article →

Don’t Worry Be Happy

July 22, 2012

“Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.”                                       ~ John Ortberg Jr. -  ‘Everybody’s Normal Till You Get to Know Them’              But Google Books finds an earlier citation in 1993, when it turns up attributed to someone in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting: “Someone in a twelve-step meeting” said [...]

Read the full article →

Listening in Charlottesville – Bad Girls

May 25, 2012

      “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”                 ~ Mae West     ” I’m not bad.   I’m just drawn that way.”                 ~ Jessica Rabbit         “If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”                  ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth   “The reason Santa [...]

Read the full article →

Listening in Charlottesville – Tanning Beds

May 15, 2012

       ” Just bought a new solar-powered tanning bed. “         ~ Steve Martin, Comedian       .

Read the full article →

Listening in Charlottesville – Moving Children

February 11, 2012

“Most children are unhappy about moving, which is why it is so important, at each stage in the move preparation process, to sit down with them, one on one, and lie to them.”              ~   Dave Barry  .

Read the full article →

Listening in Charlottesville – Diet Success?

September 18, 2011

   “They say that starvation diets don’t work.     Actually, they do.”                           ~ Steve Martin   .

Read the full article →

Listening in Charlottesville VA – Equestrian Sense

August 20, 2011

  “Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”                   ~  W.C. Fields “There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man”                  ~ Winston Churchill      

Read the full article →

Listening in Charlottesville – The Art Of Diplomacy

July 13, 2011

  “There are two definitions of THE ART OF DIPLOMACY:     (1) The art of letting the other guy have your way,   or  (2) The art of saying ‘nice doggie’… until you can find a rock.”                ~Jonathan Broder, Congressional Quarterly      

Read the full article →

Listening in Charlottesville – Walking

July 9, 2011

  “Walking is the best possible exercise.   Habituate yourself to walk very far.”                ~ Thomas Jefferson      

Read the full article →