Quotation – January 30, 2013

Prophecy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Mark Twain

Quotation – January 29, 2013

In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes’ bath and Newton’s apple, the (3.6 million year old) fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.

John Reader, ‘Missing Links: the Hunt for Earliest Man’

Quotation – January 28, 2013

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Mark Twain

Quotation – January 24, 2013

What a writer has to do is write what hasn’t been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Ernest Hemingway

Quotation – January 23, 2013

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

Quotation – January 16, 2013

Truth is mighty and will prevail.  There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Mark Twain

Quotation – January 15, 2013

Travel has no longer any charm for me.  I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for Heaven and Hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of them.

Mark Twain

Quotation – January 14, 2013

In private correspondence the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler once confessed that even if he didn’t write anything, he made sure he sat down at his desk every single day and concentrated.  I understand the purpose behind his doing this.  This is the way Chandler gave himself the physical stamina a professional writer needs, quietly strengthening his willpower.  This sort of daily training was indispensable to him.

Haruki Murakami

Quotation – January 11, 2013

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

W.E. Johns, The Passing Show

Quotation – January 8, 2013

Even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers