to improve the world

"Instead of asking 'what do you want to be when you grow up?' Ask 'what can you contribute when you grow up?'"
- America Ferrera 

on directing

"Either a little more or a little less."
- John Huston

slides through the brain

"When someone shows you who he is, believe him the first time."
- Maya Angelou

Zum Wohl!

183rd annual Oktoberfest, Munich Germany. EPA

not kidding

"Don't you want to drink every single drop that's there?"
- Chris Farley [1964-1994]

divorce

"At my age the adage is that 'all the good ones are taken.' They'll be back."
- Jon Fisch

the point of fireworks

To chase the evil spirits away.

what's it all about?

"Booze, broads, baseball, and bullshit."
- Harry Caray

vrooom

It is estimated that the Space Shuttle had 20 million horsepower.

White House

"It's a nice prison, but a prison nonetheless."
- Harry Truman

"sleep of reason"

- Goya, Madhouse

1st truly great British painter

- William Hogarth [1697-1764]

African Proverb

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

saucy

"I been to sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots."
- Susan Straight

champ

"If you're completely in control, you're not in the race."
- Mario Andretti

boom

"If nothing goes wrong, you're not on the frontier."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

help

Seven American Presidents had slaves in the White House.

cheers

"You ain't much fun since I quit drinking."
- Country and Western lyrics

on the contrary

"You can't prove a negative."
- Donald Rumsfeld, who routinely dumbfounded the White House Press Corps with this claim.

Counter argument here.

"sorry to disappoint you"

"Life is too short to hang around people who aren't making you better, who aren't pushing you forward."
- @JoelOsteen

salvation or damnation

Hate the sin, not the sinner.

the future of education

high reward, risk

"When you run with the wolves, don't trip."
- Adage

creativity

"What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable."
- Sir Jonathan Ive

education for advertising

"Eighty-seven American universities offer undergraduate courses in advertising, and some even give degrees in it. With a few conspicuous exceptions, the teachers lack the practical experience to be relevant. All of them are handicapped by the poor quality of the textbooks, and very few do research of their own. Most of their graduates get jobs with small agencies, the big agencies preferring to recruit people who have furnished their minds by studying history, languages, economics and so forth... schools of business administration alumni are more remarkable for stodginess and arrogance than imagination."
- David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, p.39

piousness is boring

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
- Mark Twain

you have made your use of me

- Caravaggio, The Betrayal of Christ [circa 1603]

sugar

In the 18th century the total value of Jamaican sugarcane exports exceeded what the American colonies produced, which is why the British didn't put up more of a fight to retain the colonies.

The Best Man

William Russell:

... as Bertrand Russell said, people in a democracy tend to think they have less to fear from a stupid man than an intelligent one.

highest swimming pool in the world

Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong's pool is located on the 118th floor.