Category: Song of the Day

Crank up the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody... My second grade class is visited by a D-List celebrity, a presenter on the local television station. After some exaggerated whimsy about the greatness of her job, she opens the floor for questions. Debbie Cox raises her...

Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. -- Bill Moyers Property is theft! -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread. --  Emma...

He thought hopelessly: I am damned already -- I may as well go the whole length of my chain... But with open mouth (the time had come) he made one last attempt at prayer, 'O God, I offer up my damnation to you. Take it. Use it for them,' and was aware of the pale...

Much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. — Sigmund Freud My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love. — Søren Kierkegaard I feel like my old self again –...

Someday when we die we will lose all our possessions, our power, our family, everything... All of us have seeds of happiness inside us, and in difficult moments when we are sick or when we are dying, there should be a friend sitting with us to help us touch the seeds...

She wants a laugh. She doesn’t laugh enough. Insufficient laughter, that’s grounds for divorce. And skiing - she wants to go skiing. She wants to ski down the mountain laughing like an idiot. -- Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam When gaps appear between the logs of...

This Betty Bliss, a plump maternal girl of some twenty-nine summers, was a soft thorn in Pnin's aging flesh... Pnin had nothing against Miss Bliss. In trying to visualize a serene senility, he saw her with passable clarity bringing him his lap robe or refilling his...

Jim: If she can just hang on for a little while longer, this will be so huge for our family.Toby: Well, what’s a little while?Jim: What do you mean?Toby: I mean, what’s the end date? It must be really hard for her to sign on to be unhappy if she doesn’t know when it’s...

'They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there -- and all the time they’ll get there anyway...' I told Dean that the thing that bound us all together in this...