“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” ― Arthur O’Shaughnessy   For Music Saturday some music by the patriarch of...

“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” - Dita Von Teese   ...

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he wh...

“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca   Sinterklaas (or m...

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” - Voltaire A dark angel has been provided by Magpie Tales as the creative...

“Altruism is innate, but it’s not instinctual. Everybody’s wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.” - David Rakoff   Movies based ...

“You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.” - Milan ...

“A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort ...

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.” - Sophia Loren   It’s been a very busy time for me these past few days, so I am running behind ...

“God enters by a private door into every individual.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson   Today, the Greek Orthodox faith celebrates the feast day ...

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” - John F. K...

“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” - Robert Browning   An 1889 painting, “Autumn on the river “b...

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” - Jane Austen   We watched a chick flick at the weekend, which I was dragged in front ...

“I recall my thrilled first exposure, as a teenager, to one of his [Modigliani’s] long-necked women, with their piquantly tipped heads an...

“You affect the world by what you browse.” - Tim Berners-Lee   The change in YouTube policy that allows one to upload longer clips has ...

“Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.” - Mitch Hedberg   For Food Friday, a classic dess...

“Television is chewing gum for the eyes.” - Frank Lloyd Wright   UNESCO is celebrating World Television Day today. This was proclaimed b...

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.” - Randall Jar...

“The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It’s personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It...

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” - Edgar Allan Poe   You sometimes watch a movie and while it keeps you inter...