John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

A motherly trouble

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
- Mark Twain  

 

Your own time

"What you read when you don’t have to determines what you will be when you can’t help it."
- Oscar Wilde 

'Heaven' and 'hell'

"After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?"
- E.M. Forster  

Not-so-tough guys

"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try." 
- Peggy Noonan 

Predetermined

"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian."
- Lee Simonson 

 

Got it

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
- George Orwell          

Less violent tendencies

"As I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things."
- Martin Scorsese  

Sage against the machine

"After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us."
- Friedrich Kittler

Reports are greatly exaggerated

"I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had."
- Sheryl Crow

 

You got me

"There is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident."
- Charles Lamb  

The edge

"If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think."
- Kristen Wiig 

From one side to the other

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
- Carl Jung  

The old standby

"Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right."
- Kurt Herbert Adler  

How hard could it be?

"More than in the other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." 
- Uta Hagen 

True grit

"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true."
— Salman Rushdie

Age is just a number

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Lawana Blackwell

In the muck

"I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." 
- Cyrus Ching  

By Jiminy

"I think it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice, if it doesn't lead to a crime."
- Lisa Kudrow  

 

A spelling test

"Nothing you can't spell will ever work."
- Will Rogers

Tenses

"I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future."
- Ana Margarita "Cha" Guzmán 

[The photograph of Guzmán, a Cuban-born American educator, appeared here.] 

 

Silver linings

"Rock won't eliminate your problems, but it will sort of let you dance all over them."
- Pete Townshend 

Ignored

"Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever." 
- Napoleon Bonaparte  

Realistic plots

"If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting her in the head, it’s called searingly realistic, even though it’s never happened in the history of mankind. Whereas if you write about two people falling in love, which happens about a million times a day all over the world, for some reason or another, you’re accused of writing something unrealistic and sentimental."
— Richard Curtis

[Richard Curtis has written and/or directed many things, from Blackadder and Mr. Bean through to romantic comedies like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually. Hence the words above, given during a 2007 interview.]

Drifting on a Reed

A little Charlie Parker is just what's needed. 

 

Too dark

"When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune."
- Albert Camus