Ruminations
OF THE DAY
July 22, 2024
QUOTE
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
BIRTHDAYS
1925 – Joseph Sargent, Actor, director, and producer
1934 – Louise Fletcher, Actress
1947 – Albert Brooks, Actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
1947 – Don Henley, Singer-songwriter and drummer
1955 – Willem Dafoe, Actor
1964 – David Spade, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor
1934 – John Dillinger, Gangster
1967 – Carl Sandburg, Poet and historian
2008 – Estelle Getty, Actress
ON THIS DAY
1598 – William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen.
1937 – The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
July 24, 2022
QUOTE
The dividing line between friends and acquaintances is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enters your mind. With acquaintances, you are forever aware of their slightly unreal image of you, and to keep them content, you edit yourself to fit. Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.
To me organized religion, the formalities and routines, is like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.
Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.
Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.
All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.
July 23, 2022
QUOTE
The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
July 22, 2022
QUOTE
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
July 20, 2022
QUOTE
The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.
July 19, 2022
QUOTE
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you’d be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.
July 17, 2022
QUOTE
I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.
We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one’s prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know – not what they want to know.
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
July 15, 2022
QUOTE
I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms – Truman’s and Eisenhower’s.
