"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

(No wonder he rejected me -- I guess he doesn't like pack rats)


"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."

-- Henry David Thoreau


"Simplify, simplify."

-- Henry David Thoreau


I will repeat these quotes over and over to myself as I attempt to clean out my closets and garage. My mantra will be -- simplify. Ommmmmm.

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and then roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."

-- Amelia Earhart

Winston Churchill quotes:

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

"$76.23/mo"

Quote for a term life insurance policy.

"As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the Federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institute of marriage. Today, it seems to be the other way around."
—Former Republican senator from Mississippi John Danforth, in a New York Times op-ed, March 30
according to The Advocate

"I've worked my whole life to create the image of what 'Walt Disney' is. It's not me. I smoke, and I drink, and all the things that we don't want the public to know about."
--Walt Disney

Tom, regarding The Perfect Man :

"The only time I want to see Hilary Duff and Chris Noth onscreen together is when he's finding her dead body on Law and Order."

"The Pentagon is getting ready to announce the latest base closures... Why not start with the ones in Iraq?" ~ Leno

"Your ignorance is not my problem." ~ a co-worker, because scientific researchers cannot follow simple directions.

''In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship,'' Lucas told a news conference at Cannes, where his final episode had its world premiere. ''The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable... On the personal level it was how does a good person turn into a bad person, and part of the observation of that is that most bad people think they are good people, they are doing it for the right reasons..."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movi...ars/index.html