Tuesday 28 February 2012

Thoughtful Tuesday

Time is free, but priceless. You can’t own it, but you can spend it wisely. You can’t keep it, but you can use it. And once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.- Harvey MacKay

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Thoughtful Tuesday

When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… Grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.
— Doctor Who, Love and Monsters.

Tuesday 14 February 2012

Thoughtful Tuesday

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain

Friday 10 February 2012

Friday Finds

It is reported that in 1963 Baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, “they’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run”. However other variants on this story attribute the joke to his manager Alvin Dark. Either way on July 20, 1969, just minutes after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first home run.
An additional fact reader -Gaylord Perry was named after a close friend of his father's, who died while having his teeth pulled.

Tuesday 7 February 2012

Thoughtful Tuesday

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
-Samuel Johnson

Wednesday 1 February 2012

Pure Genius: