Jette's Room

Quote of the Occasional

It's not so much a cabinet shuffle as a changing of the sock puppets.

- Liberal foreign affairs critic Ujjal Dosanjh.

15-Aug-07

2-July-07

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

- Pierre Elliott Trudeau


4-June-07

Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

- Gilda Radner


9-April-07

A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

- Jerry Seinfeld


23-March-07

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy.

- James Matthew Barrie (Creator of Peter Pan)


15-March-07

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

- John Mason


25-Feb-07

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

- Napoleon Hill, American author


04-Feb-07

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

- Donald Trump


28-Jan-07

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

- Robert Burns


21-Jan-07

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Do you know why?
Because it's the only thing that ever has.

- President Bartlet and Will Bailey on the tv show West Wing


14-Jan-07

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

- Maya Angelou


07-Jan-07

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

- Lance Armstrong


01-Jan-07

New year, same goal.

- Joe King


29-Dec-06

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

- Mark Twain


25-Dec-06

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

- Calvin Coolidge


20-Nov-06

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

- W.C. Fields


11-Nov-06

Who kept the faith and fought the fight;
The glory theirs, the duty ours.

- Wallace Bruce


5-Nov-06

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.


- Author Unknown


29-Oct-06

`Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.


- William Shakespeare


22-Oct-06

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

- John Muir


16-Oct-06

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

- Unknown


01-Oct-06

October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.

- Unknown


24-Sept-06

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus


25-Aug-06

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

- Ed Vargo


20-Aug-06

Sit back. Relax. Enjoy the fright.

- Tagline from Snakes on a Plane


11-Aug-06

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

- Robert Southey


30-July-06

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson


22-July-06

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

- W.B. Yeats


15-July-06

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

- Florence Whittemore


25-June-06

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

- William Shakespeare


20-June-06

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

- William Shakespeare


11-June-06

How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

- Jacques Plante


4-June-06

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

- Unknown


16-May-06

Ponce de Leon went to Florida in search of immortality and his example has been followed, with equal success, by America's senior citizens ever since.

- Iain Gately in Tobacco: The Story of How Tobacco Seduced the World


24-April-06

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

- John Muir


26-March-06

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford


19-March-06

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

- Maya Angelou


28-Feb-06

"Cash, check or charge?" I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase. As she fumbled for her wallet, I noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse. "So, do you always carry your TV remote?" I asked. "No," she replied, "but my husband refused to come shopping with me, and I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him legally."

- Woman's Revenge: an anon. email forward


27-Feb-06

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
- Jesse Owens


20-Feb-06

A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.
- Terri Guillemets


13-Feb-06

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa


6-Feb-06

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
- H. L. Mencken


23-Jan-06

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- Thomas H. Huxley


15-Jan-06

I hope, one day, you'll be as fortunate with a man as they've always been with you.
- 9 Chickweed Lane


7-Jan-06

Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
- Ludwig van Beethoven


31-Dec-05

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
- Ben Franklin


19-Dec-05

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens


7-Nov-05

It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
- Bill Bryson in A Short History of Nearly Everything


30-Oct-05

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
- George Carlin


24-Oct-05

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
- Alex Haley


19-Oct-05

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- Ben Franklin


27-Aug-05

...I remember waking up and seeing the Rockies, with snow on them. I said, 'Screw it, I�d rather starve here than live in Toronto.'
- Ian Tyson


21-Aug-05

It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich


21-Aug-05

Promise me you'll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- Winnie the Pooh


18-Aug-05

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard Bach


18-July-05

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
- Ellen Goodman


04-July-05

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
- Dave Barry


03-July-05

Escalators would help on steep uphill sections.
- Written on a forestry station comment card.


30-March-05

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.
- Amy Li


16-Feb-05

They organized as city-states with all the things we cannot do without: politcians, soldiers, priests, and tax collectors.
- The Human Story by James C. Davis


16-Jan-05

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
- Carl Reiner


20-Dec-04

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
- Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981


14-Dec-04

"I trust a man, not a government."
- Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes


3-Dec-04

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Adams


23-Nov-04

The past is never dead; it's not even past.
- William Faulkner


09-Nov-04

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C.S. Lewis


05-Nov-04

"Men such as we, men of destiny ... we never really know who we are. But then, after we are dead, historians will argue endlessly about who we were."
- Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes


17-Oct-04

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you, kid. Let's go."
- Maya Angelou


17-Oct-04

Rose: You got rid of the giant spider in the shower?!
Jimbo: No... But I told it to be OUT by morning or WE were going to move.
- Rose is Rose by Pat Brady


31-Aug-04

Has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? - "Wait and hope."
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas


24-Aug-04

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas


18-Aug-04

Love each other or perish.
- Auden


31-July-04

Swear to God, you never think of me at all or you wouldn't be such a wart on the pickle of my progress!
- Harrington in Elizabeth Lowell's To the Ends of the Earth


26-July-04

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz in Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom


19-July-04

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
- Lynn Lavner


18-July-04

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
- Mae West


14-July-04

The highway of life is full of flat squirrels that couldn't make up their minds.
- Unknown


24-June-04

He was so broke he couldn't even pay attention.
- American saying from Reader's Digest


23-June-04

It was as if in his head the main screw that held his life together was stripped. The screw would neither go in nor come out, but went on turning in the same groove without catching, yet it was impossible to stop turning it.

- From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy


22-June-04

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
- Robert Lynd (1879-1949)


11-May-04

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
- Jewish Proverb


09-May-04

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
- Agatha Christie


01-May-04

We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?
- Morrie Schwartz in Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom


29-April-04

The normal man is a fiction.
- Carl Jung


27-April-04

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
- Nietzsche


25-April-04

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.
- Renee Zellweger in Cosmo


9-April-04

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
- Denis Waitley


8-August-03

Too much smiling can get a girl in trouble.
- Le Divorce


18-July-03

I still love you, but in a please leave in the morning kind of way.
-Joey


06-June-03

At a certain age, when you're too young to raise a child, you get the urge to raise a boyfriend.
- paraphrased from an Alyssa Milano quote.


17-Feb-03

Only the dead have seen the end of war.
-Plato


30-Jun-02

Feeling better to know I'm better.
I've finally given up on all the things you say.
You didn't love me 'cause if you loved me.
I'd never walk away.
-excerpt from I'd Never Walk Away by the Ennis Sisters


01-May-00

When you're in love with someone, you're allowed to screw up their lives. That's what love is!
-Dick Solomon from Third Rock from the Sun


15-Apr-00

Men are always whining about how we're suffocating them. Personally, I think if you can hear them whining, you're not pressing hard enough on the pillow.
-Unknown Source

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