Monday, October 27, 2014

the oldest pizzeria in the town that invented pizza


Website here.

routine


"20 to 22 hours per day they relax."

Monday, October 20, 2014

spirit


"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
- Jane Austen

Sunday, October 19, 2014

General in Chief


"The harder the war the sooner the peace."
- William Tecumseh Sherman

the greatest CFL player


"I get up at 6 a.m. and paddle surf."
- Doug Flutie

Saturday, October 18, 2014


"The brain accounts for a quarter of our energy consumption but just 2% of our body mass."
- Jeff lliff


Thursday, October 16, 2014

nil desperandum


"The stock market has forecasted 9 of the last 5 recessions."
- Paul Samuelson

Tuesday, October 14, 2014


"The artistic life is a long, lonely suicide."
- Tennessee Williams

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Maya Angelou

Saturday, October 11, 2014


"Defeat is advance payment for victory"
- Winston Churchill

Friday, October 10, 2014

acting advice



"Don't act."
- Samuel Beckett

Thursday, October 9, 2014

routine


"We didn't work that hard. It was a school schedule: 10am to 3pm."
- Carol Burnett

Sunday, October 5, 2014

A Christian perspective


"25% of people will dislike you no matter what. 25% will dislike you but could be persuaded to like you. 25% will like you but could be persuaded to dislike you. 25% will like you unconditionally no matter what."
- Joel Osteen

Saturday, October 4, 2014


"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle

purported deathbed quip


"I know now that I know nothing."
- Socrates

Sunday, September 28, 2014

noblesse oblige


"To be successful you have to have self doubt."
- Barbara Streisand 

Saturday, September 27, 2014



"Data can help you make a good design great, but it will never make a bad design good."
- Margaret Gould Stewart

Friday, September 26, 2014


FDR's blood pressure before he died was 240/130. A healthy range is 115/75. 

"Among all arts, film is the most important for us."
- Vladimir Lenin as quoted by Roman Polanski in Seduced and Abandoned

Wednesday, September 24, 2014


"I'm not ashamed to call myself a redesigner."
- Tommy Hilfiger



The tiny, oil-rich nation of Qatar has purchased a Paul Cézanne painting, The Card Players, for more than $250 million. The deal, in a single stroke, sets the highest price ever paid for a work of art and upends the modern art market. Article here.

Sunday, September 21, 2014

nature enthusiast


"My car should look like a beetle."
- Adolph Hitler

Saturday, September 20, 2014

on wine


"It's a beverage. You either like it or you don't."
- Costco wine buyer

Tuesday, September 16, 2014


"Everything in the universe dances, has rhythm."
- Maya Angelou

Monday, September 15, 2014


"Meditation is concentration, really."
- HRH Prince Charles

"If you're not making mistakes you're not trying."
- Tim Cook, Apple CEO

165,000 corks = happiness



"What's life without whimsy?"
- John Pollack

Sunday, September 14, 2014


"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
- JFK