Knighton : Quote of the Day

12-10-10

2010-12-10T07:09:00.001-08:00

Plan on being misunderstood. Repeat yourself. When in doubt, repeat yourself.

- Seth Godin, You Will Be Misunderstood

7-8-10

2010-07-08T21:47:00.001-07:00

I've come to believe love is an emotion and a decision. The trick is to cultivate and care for both.

- Karen Walrond, Chookooloonks

5-20-10

2010-05-20T08:26:00.001-07:00

Spending more time doing happy things makes you happier.

- Maggie Mason, Mighty Girl

5-10-10

2010-05-10T12:10:00.001-07:00

We have a great dress code here – Jeans on Fridays, but Jammies all the other days. You should try it.

- Pammer, Outside Voice

4-29-10

2010-04-29T07:36:00.003-07:00

[B]rownies . . . are one of my favorite foods and come from my favorite food group, Stuff With Chocolate.

- Rachel Balducci, Testosterhome

4-23-10

2010-04-23T09:07:00.001-07:00

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

- Joseph Campbell, Follow Your Bliss

3-19-10

2010-03-19T12:15:00.003-07:00

I’ve been feeling . . . like I should wear a shirt that reads, “CONTENTS ARE FRAGILE,” and actually that we should all wear that shirt, so that we can all remember to be kind to each other, because life can be so hard, and we’re only here for a little while.

- Alice Bradley, Finslippy

2-26-10

2010-03-19T12:14:00.000-07:00

I mean, this is Texas for God's sakes. If you can't bring a gun to kindergarten in Texas then the rest of the country is screwed.

- Jenny, The Bloggess, What the hell, Texas?

1-28-10

2010-01-28T14:54:00.001-08:00

Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on its smiling face a dream... of spring.

- Phil Connors, Groundhog Day

1-15-10

2010-01-15T07:00:00.001-08:00

I thought about doing something athletic, like going for a run, but when I looked out the living room window it was still January, so I trashed the physical fitness idea.

- Stephanie Plum, Three To Get Deadly

1-4-10

2010-01-04T07:44:00.000-08:00

Fear mongering is a lousy profession, one that ought to be regulated, if not banned. I'm more in favor of hope mongering.

- Seth Godin, Is There a Fear Shortage?

12-21-09

2009-12-21T14:25:00.001-08:00

Remember what all the holidays this time of year are about. It’s the rebirth of the light, the return of the Sun, however you spell it. In the depths of winter’s darkness, on the longest night of the year, the wheel turns and the next day there will be just a little more light, and a little less darkness. That’s what’s its all about, lighting a candle in the dark, and trusting that the planets will turn, the universe will move, and tomorrow there will be just a little more sun to light our way.

- Laurell K. Hamilton, The Magic of the Everyday

12-11-09

2009-12-11T11:00:00.001-08:00

If there was a Nobel Prize for enjoying the sound of your own voice, Obama would definitely have qualified.

- John Derbyshire, Too Many Words

12-3-09

2009-12-03T07:05:00.001-08:00

Do not stab, kick, punch or shoot the inflatable decorations. I don't want another Bozo massacre on my hands.

- The Management, At Knighton's Office

11-16-09

2009-11-16T07:29:00.001-08:00

[I]t's nearly December! What happened to July? Did we even have a July? I don't remember, which raises an interesting question: Is the year nearly empty or is it nearly full? Do we start with a full year and empty it out or do we start with an empty year and fill it up?

- Bill Farrell, Not Half at Twelve Two Two Fondue

11-6-09

2009-11-06T12:56:00.001-08:00

Life is not designed with anyone's happiness in mind, and it has the disconcerting habit of not rewarding the good as much as we'd expect, of punishing the wicked less vigorously than we'd like, and even, on occasion, of getting the two completely mixed up.

- Marcus Buckingham, What's Happening to Women's Happiness?

10-13-09

2009-10-13T20:56:00.000-07:00

[S]omewhere in the deep dark unexplored depths of my car, the Goldfish and Gummy Bears are mating and evolving into higher life forms.

- Antique Mommy, Crazy Things In My Car

10-8-09

2009-10-08T19:46:00.001-07:00

That is now going to be my answer when someone asks how's it going: I LACK THE PROPER ADJECTIVE.

- Heather Armstrong, Dooce

9-14-09

2009-10-02T18:47:00.000-07:00

You think you're in control? Well, I think you're crazy.

- Gnarls Barkley, Crazy

8-21-09

2009-08-21T07:29:00.001-07:00

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

- Julia Child, Quotes: How to Cook

8-6-09

2009-08-06T14:57:00.001-07:00

I had a blast in college, especially when I learned how to break the rules and not get caught. Am I proud of breaking he rules? Why yes, actually. But I’m most proud of not getting caught.

- Stacy from Louisville, Bible College Love Super Quiz 2008

7-10-09

2009-07-10T10:00:00.001-07:00

Truly, it can be stated: "If you want to impress a woman, bake her a pie."

- Neil Peart, Bubba's Bar 'n' Grill

6-26-09

2009-06-26T08:11:00.001-07:00

Have you ever longed to sleep a thousand years? A thousand years might just do it. And on waking we’d have pancakes. Then perhaps a nap.

- Tony Woodlief, Sand in the Gears

6-5-09

2009-06-04T20:23:00.001-07:00

To me, the term "power nap" is an oxymoron. I don't take power naps. I take out-of-power naps.

I don't nap to work harder. I nap because I'm tired and I need to lie down.

- Lisa Scottoline, Chick Wit

5-26-09

2009-05-26T11:05:00.001-07:00

And dude, when you’re rooting for the machines in a Terminator movie, something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.

- Carrie Vaughn, Filling the Well

5-21-09

2009-05-21T15:19:00.001-07:00

You think you're a ninja but you're not!

- Boy to His Brother, So Cruel @ Testosterhome

5-5-09

2009-05-05T15:37:00.001-07:00

Leaders who refuse to listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing important to say.

- Andy Stanley, via Tony Morgan Live

4-29-09

2009-04-29T07:15:00.001-07:00

Apparently, panicking is an acceptable substitute for forethought, contingency planning or actually taking productive action.

- Seth Godin, Might as Well Panic

4-23-09

2009-04-23T14:39:00.001-07:00

One of the reasons I believe in God is that there's no other explanation for Apple's survival.

- Guy Kawasaki, @ Catalyst West

4-10-09

2009-04-10T07:24:00.000-07:00

"There’s no big "S" on your chest . . . You’re just human." I have to admit I find that a little disappointing. It would be so cool to be able to fly.

- Laurell K. Hamilton, If Only I Could Fly

4-2-09

2009-04-02T14:45:00.001-07:00

We have both always worked from home together and it has always worked for us. The upside to this scenario has been that we get to eat lunch together in our jammies and grope each other when we pass in the hallway - both of which are frowned upon in a regular office.

- Antique Mommy, Boundary Issues

3-17-09

2009-03-17T15:26:00.001-07:00

How much do you have to hate someone to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell someone about that?

- Penn Jillette, A Gift of a Bible

3-4-09

2009-03-04T07:33:00.001-08:00

President of General Motors: fifty million dollars a year to run General Motors into the ground. I coulda done it for half that.

- Jake Johansen, on David Letterman 2/13/09

2-18-09

2009-02-18T10:47:00.001-08:00

We have no idea how long Adam and Eve lasted in [the Garden of Eden] before sinning and thus creating prime rib, which seriously, the Fall wasn’t all bad.

- Anti-itch Meditation, Vegetarian Sex

2-11-09

2009-02-11T11:00:00.001-08:00

Darwin . . . put wheels on the chair in his study so he could get to his specimens more quickly — and, bingo, the modern office chair was invented.

- FOXNews.com, Darwin's Kin, Admirers, Opponents Mark 200th Birthday

1-30-09

2009-01-30T14:26:00.001-08:00

[P]art of me is still that little girl who was raised with no money, and a grandmother that could pinch a penny, and make it sing. It’s hard not to hoard things, just in case.

- Laurell K. Hamilton, A Taste for Something New

1-16-09

2009-01-16T07:16:00.001-08:00

[G]ood and evil are present in this world, and between the two of them there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.

- George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, Farewell Address

1-5-09

2009-01-05T10:14:00.000-08:00

See how virtuous I am? My politics are correct. I am a fully paid-up member of the herd — nothing independent-minded about me.

- Jay Nordlinger, My Kingdom for a Safe Zone

12-21-08

2009-01-05T10:13:00.001-08:00

A shrug. For one thing, it’s a sweater, and it’s not even a whole sweater. It’s like 1/3 of a sweater. It’s like the thong of the sweater world — another prank played upon women by the fashion industry.

- Antique Mommy, Fashion Gifts I Don't Want For Christmas

11-18-08

2008-11-18T10:45:00.001-08:00

No audience member, in the history of presentations (written or live) has ever said, "it was exciting, useful and insightful but far too short."

- Seth Godin, Blah, blah, blah, blah...

11-12-08

2008-11-12T17:37:00.001-08:00

Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.

- Camille Paglia, Obama Surfs Through

11-4-08

2008-11-04T14:46:00.000-08:00

In democratic systems, the people are free to screw up their own societies.

- Mark Steyn, Vox Populi

10-21-08

2008-10-21T18:33:00.001-07:00

I'm like Hugh Hefner. Except without all the girls. Or the mansion.

- Anonymous, Appreciating Beauty

9-30-08

2008-09-30T07:11:00.001-07:00

It's easy to be against something that you're afraid of. And it's easy to be afraid of something that you don't understand.

- Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog

9-8-08

2008-09-08T06:34:00.001-07:00

I'm already mellow, dammit!

- Joe, Professional Curmudgeon

7-29-08

2008-07-30T07:28:00.000-07:00

If I had a cow the size of a chihuahua, I would always have fresh cream for my coffee.

- Jeff, Common Household Items

6-10-08

2008-06-10T17:35:00.000-07:00

Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. This is not only the Beta Male strategy for survival, but the basis for capitalism, democracy, and most religions.

- Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

5-31-08

2008-05-31T09:20:00.000-07:00

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

- Frank Zappa, From the Taphouse Grill Menu

5-22-08

2008-05-22T15:28:00.000-07:00

It's the Kmart culture. We're famous for buying cheap shit.

- Frank, re: OLPC

5-17-08

2008-05-17T20:49:00.000-07:00

Never get in between a woman and her donut. Depending on the time of the month, all that might be left of you is a powdered sugar outline.

- Antique Mommy, A Donut Themed Day

3-24-08

2008-03-24T18:09:00.000-07:00

"I thought I was nicer than this."

"It's human nature. Delight in the pain of your enemies. The Germans have a word for it. Schadenfreude."

"The Catholics do too. Sin."

- Lisa Scottoline, Lady Killer

3-11-08

2008-03-11T22:03:00.001-07:00

On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand...

- Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

3-5-08

2008-03-05T16:22:00.001-08:00

Blessed are the obsessed; they get shit done.

- Laurell K. Hamilton, LKH Blog

2-6-08

2008-02-06T21:09:00.001-08:00

Dear Spring: Can't wait to see you!

- A Girl and a Boy, I Have Sinned

1-8-07

2008-01-08T17:03:00.000-08:00

Apparently Crazy is contagious. WHICH IS JUST ANOTHER REASON TO WASH MY HANDS EVERY TEN MINUTES.

- Dooce, Newsletter: Month Forty-seven

12-14-07

2007-12-14T23:21:00.000-08:00

This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod . . .

- George Bernard Shaw, On True Joy in Life

12-4-07

2007-12-04T20:50:00.001-08:00

[C]ooking is an expression of love. . . many things can be learned that cannot be taught."

- Neil Peart, NEWS, WEATHER, and SPORTS

12-1-07

2007-12-01T14:10:00.001-08:00

The problem with being [too] goal oriented is that you forget to enjoy the journey. You not only don't stop to smell the roses, but you stop seeing them along the road, and you rush past, because you have somewhere to go, and a deadline chasing you.

- Laurell K. Hamilton, I Blame Top Gear

11-8-07

2007-11-08T18:22:00.001-08:00

Keep holding on so long
Cause theres a chance that we might not be so wrong
We could be down and gone
But we hold on

- Rush, We Hold On

11-4-07

2007-11-04T10:08:00.000-08:00

The written character for mother love is composed of tgwo elements: love and pain.

- Lisa See, Peony in Love

10-13-07

2007-10-13T12:28:00.000-07:00

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment.

- Wicked, The Harlequin

9-12-07

2007-09-12T17:19:00.001-07:00

[W]ith divorce so common, why are most rock songs about romantic love?

- First Son Lickona, Godsbody

8-3-07

2007-09-12T17:16:00.000-07:00

That’s what love is, being able to confide in someone that everything isn’t okay, and trusting that they will listen.

- Dooce, Newsletter: Month Forty-two

7-20-07

2007-07-20T11:56:00.001-07:00

The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches ... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... And the Dark Lord will mark him as equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives.

- Sybil Trewlawney, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

5-25-07

2007-05-25T11:42:00.001-07:00

I am the whitiest white girl ever, or as I like to say "the fairest of them all."

- Antique Mommy, I Adore Adora

5-14-07

2007-05-14T13:31:00.001-07:00

The road unwinds towards me
What was there is gone
The road unwinds before me
And I go riding on

- Rush, Driven

5-5-07

2007-05-05T10:05:00.001-07:00

How many times
Do we swallow our ambitions
Long to give up the same old way
Find another road to take

- Rush, We Hold On

4-24-07

2007-04-24T11:45:00.000-07:00

The vodka helps. That'd be a great name for a blog. You could use it for anything. 'I'm losing my faith. The vodka helps.'

- Matthew Lickona, Godsbody

4-11-07

2007-04-11T14:27:00.000-07:00

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

- Apple Computer, Here's to the Crazy Ones

4-9-07

2007-04-09T08:45:00.001-07:00

If there is any image that will convey the true meaning of Easter, it's two old ladies in a throw down at the Pearly Gates.

- Antique Mommy, Millie Conway

4-6-07

2007-04-06T20:34:00.000-07:00

Happiness is often an illusion. But what's wrong with that?

- Emily Delahunty, My House in Umbria

3-24-07

2007-03-24T23:57:00.001-07:00

True friendships, like true loves, seem to be fallen into by accident, happened upon when we're not looking...

- Lisa, A Girl and a Boy

2-28-07

2007-02-28T13:05:00.001-08:00

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
-Dr. Kent M. Keith, The Paradoxical Commandments

2-2-07

2007-02-02T19:17:00.001-08:00

What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.
-Bill Murray as Phil Connors, Groundhog Day

1-8-07

2007-01-08T14:20:00.001-08:00

We may have already encountered Martian life about 30 years ago and accidentally killed it.
-Schulze-Makuch and Houtkooper, Seattle Post Intelligencer

12-22-06

2006-12-22T10:10:00.001-08:00

Oh please, there's only one fat guy who brings us presents and his name ain't Santa.
-Bart, The Simpsons

12-15-06

2006-12-15T18:50:00.001-08:00

In cyberspace, no one gets pantsed.
-Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club

12-8-06

2006-12-08T18:40:00.000-08:00

Sometimes it's okay to play Resort Tourist and enjoy the luxuries of room service and swim-up bars and water filtration.
-Leah, A Girl and a Boy

12-3-06

2006-12-03T20:24:00.000-08:00

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. . . . Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
-Nelson Mandela, Inaugural Speech, 1994

11-28-06

2006-11-28T13:41:00.001-08:00

If I Had One Wish...I think I'd wish for the Christian story to be true - just to make sure...
-Matthew Lickona, Godsbody

11-8-06

2006-11-08T19:15:00.000-08:00

Conservatism won when it ran as a Democrat...Republicanism lost.
-Rush Limbaugh, I Feel Liberated

11-1-06

2006-11-01T10:16:00.000-08:00

“You do odd things, sometimes."
-One of my colleagues, Re: Me

10-26-06

2006-11-01T10:14:00.000-08:00

Starbucks has joined beer and porn as a recession-proof industry."
-Jeff Ward, The Jeff Ward Show

10-19-06

2006-10-19T08:36:00.000-07:00

Officials say stingrays don't normally leap into boats.
-Reuters, CNN

10-11-06

2006-10-11T09:55:00.000-07:00

Nothing says "hire me" like a well-placed karate chop.
-Out There, FoxNews

10-8-06

2006-10-08T21:00:00.000-07:00

[She] rather knew that she was happy than felt herself to be so.
-Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

10-2-06

2006-10-02T22:01:00.000-07:00

For any given speech by any given politician, there must...always be tens of millions of Americans who have no clue what the guy is saying, and tens of million more who wonder why he’s talking down to us.
-John Derbyshire, National Review

9-29-06

2006-09-29T09:51:00.000-07:00

Their study...showed a clear and direct association between soft drink intake and hyperactivity.
-Reuters

9-20-06

2006-09-20T10:27:00.000-07:00

She was a great man whose only fault was in being a woman.
-Voltaire, Re: Marquise du Chatelet

9-7-06

2006-09-07T13:01:00.000-07:00

Is it just me, or is the internet getting weirder?
-Scott McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog

8-26-06

2006-08-26T20:56:00.000-07:00

I don't like it that a man can kill a hundred men and then be hanged only once.
-Godsbody's First Son, Godsbody

8-8-06

2006-08-08T13:29:00.000-07:00

Global warming is great...If the aliens were watching they’d conclude we were making our planet more habitable on purpose.
-James S. Robbins, Hurray for Global Warming

8-5-06

2006-08-06T13:28:00.000-07:00

Why is the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio? Seriously, it's Cleveland, Ohio!
-Anonymous

7-26-06

2006-07-26T08:16:00.000-07:00

I can promise you that no one ever died from properly prepared Stinky Heads.
-Bob Whicker, On Native Alaskan Foods

5-30-06

2006-07-21T12:33:00.000-07:00

Protestants believe the Bible is literal and exactly true in every detail except the description of the Eucharist, while Catholics are not allowed to read the Bible.
-holyoffice, The Medicine Box

5-18-06

2006-07-21T12:28:00.000-07:00

The havoc he wreaks...it's deeply inspirational.
- T Bone Burnett, CNN Entertainment

5-2-06

2006-07-21T12:27:00.000-07:00

It's not a total loss. At least I got something to read in the bathroom.
-Anonymous

Mid-July

2006-07-21T12:18:00.000-07:00

A fresh calf testicle tastes like lobster...Bull nuts taste like shoe leather.
-Bob Zeier, Big Ride Across America

Early-July

2006-07-21T12:17:00.000-07:00

My experience with teenaged girls is that the ones raised to believe they are princesses behave much more like Cinderella's sisters than like Cinderella. And we all know how that story ends.
- Tony Woodlief, Sand in the Gears

7-21-06

2006-07-21T11:31:00.000-07:00

July in Houston and the grass grows behind you as you mow it.
-Bill Farrell, Twelve Two Two Fondue