Quote of the Day: Corn Syrup

“Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.”
-Michael Pollan "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals"

Quote of the Day: Sailing

It looks lovely at the moment but all the shouting is still to come. - Griff Rhys-Jones, Three Men in Another Boat. 

Quote of the Day: Cats

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
-Mark Twain

Quote of the Day: Dared to dream

Engineers and Designers dared to dream when, in hindsight, they probably should have stayed awake.
-From the Smithsonian Channel Unbelievable Flying Objects.

Quote of Day: Not minding

Cry
after cry
after cry of joy---
Not minding
the hair
turning white.

Quote of the Day: When were your spirits at the lowest...

"To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out." -Sir Francis Chichester 

Quote of the Day: no such thing as bad weather...

"There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes." -Old Norwegian Adage 

Quote of the Day: Men in a ship...

"Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down." -John Masefield

Quote of the Day: The pessimist...

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." -William Arthur Ward

Quote of the Day: Boats, like...

"Boats, like whiskey, are all good." -R.D. (Pete) Culler 

Quote of the Day: Never too late

It's never too late to be who you might have been.

-George Eliot

Quote of the Day: You can't depend on your eyes...

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
-Mark Twain

Quote of the Day: Point of No Return

"You get such a wonderful view from the Point of No Return."
-Moist von Lipwig

Quote of the Day: Gravity

"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."
-Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" (1992)

Quote of the Day: open mind

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
-Terry Pratchett

Quote of the Day: thinking outside the box

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
-Terry Pratchett

Quote of the Day: Finish each day...

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day: What lies behind...

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grook of the Day: A Word to the Wise

A WORD TO THE WISE
Let the world pass in its time-ridden race;
never get caught in its snare.
Remember, the only acceptable case
for being in any particular place
is having no business there.
-Piet Hein

Grook of the Day: Grook on Long-Winded Authors

GROOK ON LONG-WINDED AUTHORS
Long-winded writers I abhor,
and glib, prolific chatters;
give me the ones who tear and gnaw
their hair and pens to tatters:
who find their writing such a chore
they only write what matters.
-Piet Hein