Archive - Sep 2003

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
    -- Eliezer Wiesel

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
    -- Robertson Davies

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.
    -- James Rippe, M.D.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
    -- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
    -- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
    -- Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company

Finally, StreamingSoundtracks.com are back on the air. They suffered disruption due to Hurricane Isabel, I'm not sure what, and have been off the air till this weekend.

I won't have a listen just now, as it has gone midnight, and my throat is calling out for something soothing before I go to bed. Hot Chocolate sounds about right.

I don't necesserily remember much about them, but I've at least seen them at some point in my life. There are some notable films that I haven't seen, and should really do so. (68/250)

I've seen the one's in bold...
1. Godfather, The (1972)
2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4. Schindler's List (1993)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
7. Citizen Kane (1941)
8. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
9. Star Wars (1977)

Just back from seeing Underworld. At first I thought I might just say 'Tigers?

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
    -- Albert Schweitzer, 1875 - 1965

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
    -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
    -- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
    -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
    -- Rabbi Harold Kushner

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
    -- Christopher Hampton

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
    -- Roger Babson

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
    -- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
    -- H.T. Leslie

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
    -- Jacques Delille

...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
    -- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
    -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), Tender is the Night

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

I have slipped up on my diet again. I was up the town in Dunfermline this afternoon. I got a pair of new Jeans and a book. Unfortunately I chose to pop into Costa Coffee for a Mocca while I waited for the bus back home. I don't know if it was the Mocca itself or the chocolate powder that they sprinkled on top but I can feel a reaction in my stomach. There must have been some gluten in there somewhere. So I've taken several handfuls of raisins and should hopefully get this flushed out of my system before too long.