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Showing posts with label
Natural Phenomena
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Showing posts with label
Natural Phenomena
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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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