Showing posts with label Natural Phenomena. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural Phenomena. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Eat or be eaten?

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.

Michael Friedman

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Change is inevitable

.... except from a vending machine.

Robert C. Gallagher

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Indelible memories?

Elephants and grandchildren never forget. 

Andy Rooney



Saturday, April 16, 2011

Science in daily life

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.  

Henry J. Tillman

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Sit tight?

How much of human life is lost in waiting.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Cracked?

We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.  

C. S. Lewis


Thursday, March 24, 2011

Blown away?


My lips are chapped from the winds of change. 

Sarah Vowell

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Duly noted

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Neil Gaiman

Friday, March 18, 2011

Anonymous design?


My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley

Monday, February 28, 2011

Just chill?

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

Steven Wright

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

La différence?

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Bruce Willis

Monday, January 24, 2011

Underexposed?

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes. 

Jonathan Katz

 

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Survival of the fittest?

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Tama Janowitz

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Bugged?

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Better than truth serum?

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man person to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Graham Greene

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Prolonged dormancy?

The two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.

William Faulkner

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

It was a blonde.

A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. 

Raymond Chandler

Monday, December 13, 2010

Happy Monday

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

e. e. cummings

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Early retirement reconsidered



It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.  

 Chinese Proverb

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Biological imperative?

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Jane Wagner
 
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