My Theater Professor Says: Monday, Apr 23 2007
Quotes 1:07 pm
“As a woman, you should never reveal when you love a man. It’s not wrong to do, but it’s tragic.”
Truth and Social Skills: Wisdom from my Theater Professor Saturday, Apr 21 2007
Quotes 4:52 pm
“Social skills are a way of not telling the truth.”
He’s got a point. Our society tiptoes around issues in order to be socially acceptable and we end up avoiding the heart of what needs to be discussed.
So you need to decide: is it more important to have proper manners or is it more important to be truthful?
I don’t know what path you will choose, but I know that hearty growth never sprung from good etiquette. I’ll take the truth, no matter how painful.
Turtles Thursday, Apr 12 2007
Quotes 1:36 pm
A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking begins with this anecdote:
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said, “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.”
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?”
“You’re very clever, young man, very clever,” said the old lady. “But it’s turtles all the way down.”
Lisa Simpson Monday, Mar 5 2007
Quotes 1:30 pm
Quote from my theater professor as he points to a picture of a naked male and a naked female:
“This is the female. You can tell because she’s wearing pearls, like Lisa Simpson.”
Quotes from the night: Tuesday, Feb 13 2007
Quotes 12:04 am
“I’ll kiss you once if I can throw my sock into your ceiling fan.”
“Absolutely not.”
[Sock goes flying into fan, then promptly across the room.]
“Wasn’t that cool?”
“No. Sick. Do not touch me under any circumstances.”
How to be successful with women, according to Peter Olson: Thursday, Feb 9 2006
Quotes 3:53 pm
“A handkerchief. That’s all it takes. If she starts crying, you’re a hero.”
I am in the second half of life. Tuesday, Jan 17 2006
Quotes 5:08 pm
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even hostility, in what we took to be love. - Carl Gustav Jung
