Some Good Duke Ellington Quotes
cn | 16 August, 2007 16:00
Hey hey, here are a few good quotes from Duke Ellington:
“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.” - (thanks to Meg for pointing this one out ot me.)“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
“There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.”
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Quote of the Day
cn | 22 April, 2007 14:34
There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacAurthur
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Quote of the Day
cn | 20 April, 2007 14:41
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.
- Sam Keen
source: http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_travel.html
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Quote of the Day
cn | 19 April, 2007 16:37
This might be my new favorite quote...
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.source: http://www.parrotsmeow.com/IQ/
- Mark Twain
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Quote of the Day
cn | 18 April, 2007 12:37
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
- Glenn Clark
source: http://quotations.home.worldnet.att.net/travel.html
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Quote of the Day
cn | 16 April, 2007 17:16
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.source: http://honeymoons.about.com/cs/wordsofwisdom/a/TravelQuotes.htm- Fitzhugh Mullan
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Quote of the Day for Sunday
cn | 15 April, 2007 13:40
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.- John Hope Franklin quotes
source: http://thinkexist.com/quotations/travel/2.html
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Quote of the Day Returns!
cn | 14 April, 2007 13:25
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
source: http://thinkexist.com/quotations/travel
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Quote of the day
cn | 03 April, 2007 01:29
source: http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_persistence.htmlThe heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A Quote for Today
cn | 01 April, 2007 11:29
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them make them.
George Bernard Shaw
source: http://www.squarewheels.com/
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Quote of the Day - March 11th
cn | 11 March, 2007 17:13
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
source: http://www.quoteland.com/
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Quote of the Day - March 10th
cn | 10 March, 2007 12:02
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.- John Quincy Adams
source: http://www.wisdomquotes.com
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Quote of the Day - Back in Action
cn | 09 March, 2007 11:00
I've been lazy!
I apologize for my recent failures to maintain the entertainment of the daily quote. So here's the quote for today:
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles DuBois
source: http://www.wisdomquotes.com
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Factoid for March 1st
cn | 01 March, 2007 13:45
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.source: http://hookedonfacts.com
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Quote of the Day, Feb 28
cn | 28 February, 2007 15:22
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.source: http://secretsofsuccess.com
-Abraham Lincoln
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