Category: Quote For The Day

“To say that the world is not worth anything, that this life is of no value and to give evil as the proof is absurd, for if these things are worthless what does evil take from us?

Thus the better we are able to conceive of the fullness of joy, the purer and more intense will be our suffering in affliction and our compassion for others. What does suffering take from him who is without joy?

And if we conceive the fullness of joy, suffering is still to joy what hunger is to food.

It is necessary to have had a revelation of reality through joy in order to find reality through suffering. Otherwise life is nothing but a more or less evil dream,” – Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace.

(Video: Ann Hamilton’s The Event of a Thread, which draws together “readings, sound, and live events within a field of swings that together invite visitors to connect to the action of each other and the work itself, illuminating the experience of the singular and collective body, the relationship between the animal and the human.”)

INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR. trailer from Travis Mathews on Vimeo.

“Every fucking love story is a dude that wants to be with a girl, and the only way they’re going to end up happy is if they walk off into the sunset together. I’m fucking sick of that shit. So if there’s a way for me to just break that up in my own mind, I’m all for it … Sex should be a storytelling tool, but we’re so fucking scared of it,” – “James Franco”, in Interior. Leather Bar. EW takes a NSFW look at his new film project. But it’s Sunday evening.

“So let us say that on this day of all days, each of us carries with us the task of changing our hearts and minds. The division, the stereotypes, the scape-goating, the ease with which we blame our plight on others – all of this distracts us from the common challenges we face – war and poverty; injustice and inequality. We can no longer afford to build ourselves up by tearing someone else down. We can no longer afford to traffic in lies or fear or hate. It is the poison that we must purge from our politics; the wall that we must tear down before the hour grows too late,” – Barack Obama, January 20, 2008.

"Not in our day, but at no distant one, we may shake a rod over the heads of all, which may make the stoutest of them tremble. But I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power, the greater it will be," – Thomas Jefferson.

""Everyone’s been looking for a way in. It’s just been thin gruel beyond a certain point," – a news editor on the desperate attempt to find some newsworthy dirt on Obama.

"If you haven’t tasted Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi, but would like an idea of what it tastes like, do this – keep a straw in your pocket and wander around outside until you find a pigeon or squirrel that’s been dead for, oh, say three months. Stick the straw into the dead animal and suck. Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi tastes like that, except worse. Plus, the taste lingers in your mouth for months. And gradually gets worse until it’s like your mouth was invaded by the notoriously rare and deadly Asian Shit Ant," – William K. Wolfrum.

Couldn’t put it better myself. But have you tried Coke Zero?

"If you elect me, I’ll repeal those subsidies and put them into a strategic energy fund that will create American jobs for America’s future with clean energy," – Bill Clinton.

If you listen to the whole clip, however, he says at the very beginning: "So Hillary says …" So  it’s not actually a story, although it does confusingly revive worries of an unconstitutional third term. The Clintons speak as one; they will govern as one. They did before, as one of them keeps taking credit for.

"A friend of mine told me how the Marines train people in hand-to-hand combat. If your opponent has a weapon and you don’t, you pick up an ashtray, a lamp, a chair, anything you can, and keep throwing stuff. It seems to me that’s what the Clinton campaign is doing," – Bob Shrum.

"See, because I had the nerve to tell the unvarnished truth about Bill Clinton the sexual predator, I’ve been called a liar by more so-called "journalists" than I can count. My every utterance has been parsed and examined, just like yours will be," – Kathleen Willey, in an open letter to Barack Obama.

"Are we the country we say we are? Are we the country that holds certain truths to be self-evident, words which incidentally were written by a 33-year-old named Thomas Jefferson. You know, are we the country that judges people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin — words that were written by Martin Luther King when he was about 34 years old," – John Kerry, National Journal.

Does anyone think that Jefferson was too inexprienced when he wrote that phrase?