Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose." ~ Stephen King

"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use." ~ Mark Twain

"A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God." ~ Sidney Sheldon

[SmokeyBob]

“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” ~ Dean Karnazes

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it." ~ Muhammad Ali

“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” ~ Jerry Rice

[SmokeyBob]

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul" ~ Plato

“Dancers are athletes of God.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Let us read and let us dance -two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.” ~ Voltaire

[SmokeyBob]

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." ~ William Shakespeare

"Work isn't to make money, you work to justify life." ~ Marc Chagall

"Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to." ~ Ezra Taft Benson

[SmokeyBob]

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." ~ Sir Winston Churchill

"Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards." ~ William A. Ward

"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort." ~ Marshall McLuhan

[SmokeyBob]

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me." ~ Althea Gibson

[SmokeyBob]

"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed." ~ Frank Deford


"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." ~ Khalil Gibran

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[SmokeyBob]

"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given." ~ Mary Lou Retton

"The end of labor is to gain leisure." ~ Aristotle

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." ~ George Edward Woodberry

[SmokeyBob]

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” ~ Chad Sugg

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ~ L.M. Montgomery

[SmokeyBob]

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” ~ Lauren DeStefano

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." ~ John Donne

“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring." ~ Truman Capote

[SmokeyBob]

"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” ~ Samuel Butler

“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” ~ Lee Maynard

[SmokeyBob]

“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” ~ Shira Tamir


"Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring." ~ Doug Larson


"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees." ~ David Letterman

[SmokeyBob]

"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life." ~ P. D. James


"Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons." ~ Jim Bishop

“Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.” ~ Siobhan Vivian

[SmokeyBob]

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” ~ Lou Holtz

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.” ~ Erma Bombeck

“Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands. ” ~ Craig Ferguson

[SmokeyBob]

"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful." ~ Thomas Merton

“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” ~ Ray Bradbury

"Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.” ~ Susan Lendroth