Blogging Bert

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Carrie Fisher  (and with lots of variations from other people.)

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

Diogenes of Sinope

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca

This is an interesting planet.  It deserves all the attention you can give it.

Marilynne Robinson

A rainy day is like a lovely gift — you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Alfred Hitchcock

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

P.D.James

Every student needs someone who says, simply, “You mean something. You count.”

Tony Kushner

It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

Bill Watterson

We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.

Oliver Sacks