Random Quotes for Today

I don't have much to say today, but I don't want to leave you with a post about school, so I will 'skip to the end' and just do quotes and a Muse today. These quotes come from pressing 'Random Page' on the side of the Wikiquote page. You should try it sometime. But you don't have to. I am.

Muse for Today:

Calliope, Muse for EPIC Poetry. Not just any poetry- EPIC.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

-Shana Alexander, The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 33

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shana_Alexander)

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

-Robert Baden-Powell, The Scouter (November 1928)

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell)

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

-Teddy Roosevelt, Letter to Cecil Spring-Rice (1900-03-12)

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Teddy_Roosevelt)

Kramer: Bookman? The library investigator's name is actually Bookman?

Librarian: It's true.

Kramer: That's amazing. That's like an ice cream man named "Cohn."

-from Seinfeld, the episode called The Library

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Seinfeld)

Jamie: Do [the actors of Harry Potter] have guards with them all the time? Or are they just walking around?

Ben: They always have a bodyguard with them.

Andrew: Yeah, like, Dan [Radcliffe] did.

Jamie: Could you have taken them all at one time?

Ben: Most likely.

Jamie: Without the nunchucks and the swords, and the AK-47s?

Ben: Easily.

Andrew: Why didn't you try? That's what I want to know.

Ben: Because I'm a big fan of not going to jail.

-from MuggleCast: Episode #99

(http://www.mugglenet.com/mugglecast/index.php?page=transcripts/99.php)