My stomach is growling. Some veggie spring rolls please. Or some warm bread with wine and gouda.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Quotation from Sarah Bernhardt
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.
Quotation from Garrison Keillor
We all need Beauty Rest. Collagen’s catalytic work regenerates skin cells faster at night, peaking around 2 am, fighting aging and wrinkles while also repairing joints and tissue. Sleep also reduces stress, improves memory and is considered an acceptable alibi.
Blessing on him who invented sleep —the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise.
Quotation from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
It’s the day after Christmas. This is also a time when family violence increases. People are together more, amid the additional stresses of holiday spending and often alcohol. Don’t allow it in your life, or in the lives of your loved ones. Domestic violence is NOT acceptable, even at Christmas.
Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) if you need help or shelter.
A wish for world peace from me to you. Merry Christmas.
Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious.
Quotation from Francis C. Farley
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
Quotation from Janice Maeditere
Actually, I did receive a generous donation (Thanks Sara!). Now all I need is an agent, a patron or a corporate sponsor. Or a sugar daddy cookie.
I stood almost motionless on a box in harvard square, painted white, relinquishing my fate and income to the goodwill and honor of the passers-by. I spent years gradually building up a tolerance to the inbuilt shame that society puts on laying your hat/tipjar on the ground and asking the public to support your art…
Quotation from Amanda Palmer, Dresden Dolls
“When you wet the bed, first it gets warm then it gets cold.” So says James Joyce. And this is true for everything: a man’s life, a mother’s love, worldly passion, weather, fashion, technology, war, a bird in the nest, a beating heart, milk on the floor, ball bearings, anger, the sun, a barking dog, ice cream, the sound of a hand moving through water, words, sulpher, the color blue.
You never know who will have the answers… but you must push to find the questions that need to be asked.
Quotation from Jason Manley
Hence art is indefinable. (Weitz, 1956)
Quotation from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
How to tell the difference between a woman and a banana: 4) Bananas give off ethylene gas. 3) The average erect banana is five to seven inches long (near-sighted), but subject to premature spotting and peeling. 2) It’s a known fact that women live longer than bananas. 1) Most bananas are picked green and never properly ripen.
Question: What does the idiom “going bananas” mean?
Answer: Going crazy, losing your mind. A lack of mental stability. To go bananas is symptomatic of doing irrational things, a lack of reason.
Quotation from Answers.com
Congratulations to Brian Moynihan, who will replace Ken Lewis as CEO of Bank of America on January 1st. BAC was unsuccessful in hiring a “star industry executive” for the top job because of pay restrictions imposed by the U.S. government.
The move draws to a close what is probably the executive search from hell. They needed to find someone to end the drama so that the bank can get back to regular business, but at the same time I am surprised by their choice. You will have a young and untested CEO running a major commercial bank in the U.S.
Quotation from Tony Plath, UNC/Charlotte
What you have is a payoff when there’s poor performance. But that’s the nature of contracts. There’s such a tremendous risk these days with being a CEO of a major corporation.
Quotation from Charles Peck
[It's surreal, however, when taxpayer monies are needed to complete the contract. Best Wishes, Mr. Moynihan ~Sera]
Quod erat demonstrandum might as well mean “Quickly ends discussion.” It’s a somewhat pretentious notation placed at the end of a mathematical proof to indicate its completion.
Freud may have been too conservative in his characterization of the unconscious. The architecture of the mind is such that a great deal of mental processing occurs outside of conscious awareness.
Quotation from Timothy D. Wilson, Know Thyself
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.
Quotation from Lois McMaster Bujold
I’m proud to think that I’m on Santa’s Nice List. But I take secret pleasure in knowing I’m somewhere on his Naughty List too.
I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn’t come home at tea time, I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things; I was better fed in bed.
Quotation from Diane Cilento
Sorry there’s no photo in today’s comic. I’ve been virtuously wrapping gifts and decorating the house this weekend. I’m hoping to avoid the last minute holiday panic that gripped me last year.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Yet, some people argue passionately about everything. They enjoy testing the strength of another’s convictions, or else they have a mood disorder. Perhaps they are simply bullies. Or it’s PMS.
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has a wide variety of symptoms, including mood swings, tender breasts, food cravings, fatigue, irritability and depression. An estimated 3 of every 4 menstruating women experience some form of premenstrual syndrome.
Quotation from MayoClinic.com, Premenstrual Syndrome
[FYI: Don't argue the fact that 3 out of 4 is almost 75%.]
How do children learn how to make elephant sounds? I can understand a moo-moo here and an oink-oink there, but an elephant? It must be something babies are born with, because every infant I’ve met knows how to **BiaAAH!**
A baby’s cry is appropriately disturbing: ear-piercing enough to get the caregiver’s attention… but not so disturbing as to make the listener want to avoid the sound altogether.
Quotation from Ask Dr. Sears, 7 Things Parents Should Know About Baby’s Cries
Nuclei can decay by positron emission; they may also decay by electron capture, so I’ll try to be positive for you. A life in equilebrium is a happy life.
Gravitation naturally does not exist for this observer. She must fasten herself with strings to the floor, otherwise the slightest impact against the floor will cause her to rise slowly towards the ceiling of the room.
Quotation from Albert Einstein, The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Quotation from Carl Jung
Everyone has a charm to ward off evil. Some wear tiny crosses at their throats. Others wear copper bracelets to ward off disease. I know a man who won’t walk under a ladder because it’s “bad luck.” Rabbits feet were popular a century ago as good luck charms. Wearing “lucky” socks, underpants or hats are common charms against injury or defeat. I turn the other way whenever a black cat crosses my path. I cross my fingers for luck. I also cross them behind my back when I tell a white lie.
Carrying a cat whisker in the glove box of the car protects against car theft, troubles, accidents and traffic tickets.
Quotation from Spiritual.com.au
The negotiations have begun. We don’t want to disappoint loved ones, but we don’t want to stress our finances either. If you want that iPod, I get a new camera. What will it take to make you happy?
Three in 10 Americans report a job loss in their household in the past year; among the rest, nearly half are worried about it happening in the months ahead. That makes it an uncomfortable time to spend.
Quotation from ABC News
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Quotation from Dalai Lama
I do it too. I stand in my own way. I defeat myself. It’s like being chained.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
Quotation from Winston Churchill
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
Quotation from Willie Nelson