Quote Note Of The Day 02/21/2010

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” ~ Thomas Alva Edison 

Oh how true?  Revolutionary ideas do not leap from the minds of the well sated.  They vomit forth from the malnourished hearts of those left behind...those left to starve!

There is no reason to go to the grocer when the pantry is full.

Quote Note Of The Day 02/05/2010

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“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing I could say to expound upon this prophetic statement so, instead, I will comment on the two possible views of it.


If you get it, then you fucked up!  You are asleep at the wheel!  Get your head out of your ass - realize where we stand as a country - and do something about it!


If you don't get it then you are fucked up!  You are part of the problem...not the solution!  Take your hand out of the air and put it to work for fucks sake!  Take care of yourself and yours!  I will take care of mine!

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Quote Note Of The Day 02/04/2010

“Words are loaded pistols.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Any doubts here?
For better or worse, words have built kingdom's and leveled nations.
They have given men wings and burned a people whole.
Words are the pistol and the bullet...

Quote Note Of The Day 02/03/2010

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“Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.” ~Peter Gallagher

I have recently witnessed this in its most disgusting form.  The ability that some people have to judge with little, or no, self introspection is stunning!  The need to ignore the "judged" in order to not see the effects of their arrogance glaring back at them... unconscionable! 

Quote Note Of The Day 01/28/2010

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“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

This quote is perfect for today because yesterday there was a whole lotta foolin' goin on!
The State Of The Union was an embarasment!
The GOP Response was no better.
I am starting to feel like the left and the right are just the distraction...the GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ if you will.
Wake up people!
Before it is too late!

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Quote Note Of The Day 01/24/2010

Bad Video.
Bad Sound.
It's as self indulgent as I could possibly be!
Love em' or hate em', let us know...IT'S CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY!!!
J...E...T...S...JETS....JETS.....JETS!

Quote Note Of The Day 01/23/2010

“I want to be all used up when I die.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

Completely and utterly destroyed by the vim and vigor of how we lived.  Is there any other way to go?  Throw every fucking card out there on the table cause you can't take it with you...hell, sometimes you can't even remember it in the end!

Quote Note Of The Day 01/22/2010

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” ~Oscar Wilde

We all wear masks. 
Some are subtle.  
Some are garish.
eyeofh.com is one of my masks...one of many!

Each mask is, itself, both a truth, and a fiction.  Tell yourself what you want...we all wear masks!

Quote Note Of The Day 01/20/2010

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“What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.” ~ Andy Kaufman

 Sometimes I wish I could be as deeply devoted to my art as Andy Kaufman was.  I would have to believe that most serious artists feel the same way.  He entrenched himself on the front line with an - often hillarious, and just as often sad - all out war with the status quo.  I do think, however, that the test was more along the lines of how HE dealt with reality...the audience was just a bystander!

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Quote Note Of The Day 01/19/2010

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” ~Thomas Alva Edison

I am the laziest person on earth when all is well.  I think that is a common human thread.  When we are happy we ruminate...when we are unhappy we rage!

Quote Note Of The Day 01/18/2010

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“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security” ~ Benjamin Franklin

Could there be a more relevant quote right here, and right now?  The "war on terror" comes toe to toe with this little truism on a daily basis.  Our government grows larger by the day, all the while consuming a liberty here and a liberty there.  No one notices until it is too late.  To confuse the issue even further, there are those out there that believe that OUR liberties should be extended to the aggressor.  What a slippery slope we tread daily.  What a horrid future we create for our children - to leave them bound by laws that the enemy will never follow.

Quote Note Of The Day 01/16/2010

“Always look on the bright side of life.” ~ Monty Python(from The Life Of Brian)

Sometimes - no matter what is going on in life - you just have to smile and say "fuck it!".  This song always enables me to do that. 

Quote Note Of The Day 01/15/2010

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“God has no religion” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Amen!   I understand the need to personalize your relationship with God, but there are plenty of ways to do that without judging the rest of the world for not sharing your same vision of the creator of all things.  The question is: if your religion (whatever that might be) were to disappear today, would God go with it?  If you are still thinking about that then you do not serve God, you serve an Idol.

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Quote Note Of The Day 01/14/2010

 “Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not” ~ Frierich Nietzsche

How true is this?  Love is nothing short of an alternate reality.  We don't see things that are there, and do see things that are not there.  That one emotion consumes and alters all others as on a pyre.  Love is - all at once - a most terribly beautiful, and utterly trans-formative bender of reality.  There exists no better drug in this world!

Quote Note Of The Day 01/13/2010

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“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.” ~ Ayn Rand

Fucking A right!  If you are trying to accomplish something this should be your mantra.  If you are not trying to accomplish something than you are the one who can't stop whomever is moving forward with this quote buzzing in the back of their mind.  It is about as straight forward as one could possibly be without telling someone to go fuck themselves!

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Quote Notes

Today I am beginning what, I hope, will be a daily feature.  


Quote Notes is a very simple premise.  I will post a new quote everyday, along with any thoughts or feelings that I may have about that quote.  If the quote in question pertains to a particular experience in my life I will share that also.  I invite you to do the same if you should feel so inclined.


The proliferation of social media sites has led to an explosion of quote references.  They are the quickest, easiest way of conveying our current state of mind to the masses.  The fact that the hard work involved in converting our thoughts into the perfect anecdote to describe a given situation has already been done, make them all the more attractive.


My question is this: why should a great quote be left to wander the world wide web alone - with no measure of its magnificence?


These quotes affect us.  They inspire us.  They keep us grounded or convince us to fly.  The really great ones operate independent of the social niche from whence they were uttered; they transcend liberal and conservative, black and white, religious and atheist.  They appeal to every ear that hears and - in rare occurrences - even approach truth!


If you see a quote that has affected, or helped, you in some way then tell us why.  Maybe it provided just a little light so that you could see the end of the tunnel, or gave you solace in a time of despair.  Perhaps it bolstered your confidence in a moment when you were not completely sure you had the strength to move on.  It could even have been something so antithetical to your view of how the world should work that it angered you into taking action.  The bottom line is that what makes complete sense to one person may be a complete load of shit to another.  


Whatever the case might be please let us know!  

Quote Of The Day - 12/26/2009

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence ~ Aristotle

Quote Of The Day - 12/25/2009

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” ~ Plato

Quote Of The Day - 12/24/2009

"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes." ~ Mark Twain

Quote Of The Day - 12/23/2009

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe