happenings at home
Posted: September 27, 2009 Filed under: Overheard 1 Comment »“Arrrggh, dumb geometry. I’m making up my OWN theorems.”
Stops, thinks.
‘If two lines look parallel, they probably are.’
-C.S., my sister doing geometry homework.
from the road
Posted: September 3, 2009 Filed under: Overheard, Travel Leave a comment »If I ever get another shaving kit, it will not be black on the inside. I can’t ever find my comb. Having a black shaving kit has caused me no end of grief and heartache.
DS
on makeup
Posted: September 1, 2009 Filed under: Overheard, Travel 2 Comments »“You look nice.”
“Thanks. I’m wearing makeup … thought I’d clean up because it’s my last day.”
“Well, you need to wear makeup every day. God wanted women to look their best. And that’s why God invented makeup.”
-KW
stumbled upon
Posted: August 31, 2009 Filed under: Overheard, Reading Leave a comment »SANDRA: But …. my work …. What am I going to …
MURRAY: You are a lover, Dr. Markowitz, you are a lover of things and people so you took up work where you could get as many of them as possible, and it just turned out that there were too many of them and too much that moves you….Please be glad that it turned out you are not reasonable and sensible. Have all the gratitude you can, that you are capable of embarrassment and joy and are a marathon crier.
Gardner, Herb. A Thousand Clowns. Samuel French: New York, New York, 1962.
something i heard today
Posted: August 27, 2009 Filed under: Overheard, Uncategorized Leave a comment »I cannot stress enough the importance of really listening to yourself. Yourself knows what it thrives on.
- M. S.
