Life:
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. --Gerald Ford
Destiny is not found or discovered, it is invented. --Peter Koestenbaum.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
All progress begins by telling the truth. --Lee Brower
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. --Mark Twain
It is only in our decisions that we are important. --Jean-Paul Sartre
Without risk, faith is impossible. --Soren Kierkegaard
What is to give light must endure burning. --Viktor Frankl
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. --Jim Morrison
Travel:
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. --Proust
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. --Goethe
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. --GK Chesterton
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. --Martin Buber
Traveler, there is no path; paths are made by walking. --Antonio Machado
Business:
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. --Peter Drucker
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. --Henry Ford
The harder you work, the luckier you get. --Gary Player
Work is love made visible. --Kahlil Gibran
Creation comes before distribution. --Ayn Rand
Writing:
Substitute ‘damn’ every time you write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. --Mark Twain
I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one. --Mark Twain
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. --Winston Churchill
Gallery
Master pieces
Vancouver Island, January 2009
Gotland, Sweden, July 2008
Copenhagen, July 2008 (I hate ketchup)
Costa Brava, Mexico, November 2006
Editing Hall of Infamy
I know things are tough for women in Texas, but this is ridiculous.
Once upon a time language-using professionals understood the basics of English—spelling, grammar, punctuation, usage. Now unmitigated idiocy and illimitable ineptitude are rife, even in the most hallowed halls of publishing, and there are only five editors left who completely grasp the difference between there, their and they’re. Please contact me with your own examples!
Unadorned Stupidity Dep’t.
Thank you for bussing your table. –Sign in a Seattle cafe
Spell-check Over-reliance Dep’t.
George Fenton composed the sore which is performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. --CNN movie review
Writers and editors like Jorge Luis Borges and Federico Garcia Lorca once scribbled at the oak and green marble tables; now camera-swinging foreign visitors are a more common site. –Hemispheres Magazine
Sharapova wore a steel-blue dress with a loose, sheer, Mediterranean blue, sash-like material around her waste. --Globe & Mail
Oh, Really? Dep’t.
“My overwriting feeling is…”
--Rivals.com.
Another wall could be imposed by the telecoms and cabal companies... --From a “scholarly” book about the future. Those darn cabal companies keep causing trouble, don’t they?
Madden seemed reinvigorated in 2002 when he joined Al Michaels in the Monday Night Football booth. To go out now is to go out with his legacy in tact. --John Madden, a legacy in tact? From a Yahoo Sports blog.
