polymath

"Nothing is more beautiful than to know all."
- Athanasius Kircher

sutta

"Were there a mountain all made of gold, doubled that would not be enough to satisfy a single person: know this and live accordingly."
- Buddha [circa 480 BCE]

"be better than yourself"

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

- William Faulkner

a place where stars go

Brando Island

on retirement

"If I rest, I rust."
- 78 year old Placido Domingo

great wall of wisdom

"He who knows all the answers hasn't been asked all the questions."
- Confucius

abolitionist

"To love the religion of Jesus is to hate the religion of slave masters."
- Frederick Douglass

on the unique individual

"There's nobody like anybody ever."
- Oliver Sacks

on humanism

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

—Robert F. Kennedy

secret ingredients

Chez L'Ami Louis uses goose and duck fat & salt on their roast chicken.

The Farm

Ernest Hemingway bought Joan Miró's "The Farm."

father of American literature

"Never let school get in the way of a good education."
- Mark Twain

"Yale tradition since 1849"

Mory's

stroke of insight

losing your hair?

Contact Wade for realistic hair pieces.

on Richard Cassel

Online Holocaust resources include www.ushmm.org.

Power and Food

What the aliens offer are unlimited power/energy and food! What could possibly go wrong?

how ted danson holidays

ground zero

Reputed to be the first NYC pizza vendor.

20/20

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

on what to say to a betrothed ex

"Happiness is hard to come by in this life, and you've given me more than my fair share."
- Advice Alex Reiger gave to Louie DePalma 

on positive mental attitude

"The only thing negative we want are test results."
- Sheryl Underwood

could go either way

A Hirst interview here. 

dog whistle

Only heard by a select, special audience.

extraneous

More than 40% of workers feel (and corroborated by hard statistics) that their work is meaningless and doesn't contribute to the bottom-line.

bully

"44% of Canadians have been bullied on the job."
- The Stats of Life, CBC

Shaq foot

cabo wabo

"My performance side of me came from being nervous and scared."
- Sammy Hagar, who also said he "never wants to take an enemy to the grave."

paraphrase

"The longer you keep it up, the longer you have to burn in hell and the quicker you'll get there."

veracity

"Facts are the backbone from which truth is made."
- Shelby Foote