Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Sokka: Great, Aang.  Maybe instead of saving the world, you can go into the jewelry making business.

Aang: I don't see why I can't do both.
                                                                   

- Avatar: The Last Airbender

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Hark! the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn king.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

"Virtually every sentence that a person utters or understands is a brand-new combination of words, appearing for the first time in the history of the universe."

- Steven Pinker

Monday, December 20, 2010

Friday, December 17, 2010

Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two

     Nansen saw the monks of the eastern and western halls fighting over a cat.  He seized the cat and told the monks: "If any of you say a good word, you can save the cat."
     No one answered.  So Nansen boldly cut the cat in two pieces.
     That evening Joshu returned and Nansen told him about this.  Joshu removed his sandals and, placing them on his head, walked out.
     Nansen said: "If you had been there, you could have saved the cat."

Thursday, December 16, 2010

"Eventually, we invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head--an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is."

- Carl Sagan

Monday, December 13, 2010

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy"

Sunday, December 12, 2010

"Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late"

- William Shakespeare

Saturday, December 11, 2010

"The man who thinks clearly should never despair completely about any undertaking.  All things are attainable through concentration and effort."

- Menander

Thursday, December 9, 2010

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about"

- Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

"The colors red, blue, and green are real.  The color yellow is a mystical experience shared by everyone."

- Tom Stoppard

Monday, December 6, 2010

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another"

- Plato

Saturday, December 4, 2010

"When one man, for whatever reason, has an opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself"

- Jaques-Yves Cousteau

Friday, December 3, 2010

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep"

- William Shakespeare
"All we are is the result of what we have thought"

- Buddah

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

"I never ever ever do a thing about the weather 'cause the weather never ever does a thing for me"