Inspiration

Inspiration. Something everyone needs, whether you are drawing a picture, writing a blog or even taking part in an event. Most people have an inspirational figure (and I say most as I'm struggling to think of one), but inspirational figures don't have to be famous. They could be a relative, a teacher, a colleague or even a friend. So, what gives you inspiration? For me, sometimes it's quotes, other times it's pictures. So, I'm  going to share a bit of both.

 Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Rabindranath Tagore

Give light and people will find the way.

Ella Baker

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Wallis Simpson

Hope is a waking dream. 

Aristotle

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis

Hope you enjoyed!! 

Exams :(

While friends are suffering with mock exams before January, I thought I would provide some relief and see which exam quotes may give the odd laugh. So here goes, (these are the only ones I can find, there aren't many):

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

Karl von Frisch

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

Hedy Lamarr

Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done.

Len Dawson

I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

Rhona Mitra

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Dame Edith Evans

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

Paul Nurse

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

Daniela Hantuchova

Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

Kenny Cunningham

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

Kenneth H. Cooper

Any comments on how exams normally go?

Happiness

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire 

Happiness. Something we all experience and we all want to have. And, even better for me, there are loads of quotes on it. So, being this a very popular subject quote wise, I've decided to write about it and share some of my favourite happiness quotes. 

But first a dictionary definition 

Happiness (n) state of well-being characterised by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy 

Happiness (n) emotions experience when in a state of well-being

           

Not 

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is all around us, associated with the colour yellow and something my teacher said is not to be associated with Christmas. <--- I disagree with the last one!

But now, as Christmas comes closer, the weather and temperature turn colder, sometimes happiness is all we need. So time for some quotes. My top ten Happiness quotes are;

A lifetime of Happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth

George Bernard Shaw 

To be happy for an hour, get drunk; to be happy for a year, fall in love; to be happy for a life, take up gardening 

Chinese proverb

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy 

Guillaume Apollinaire 

Happiness in nothing more than good health and a bad memory 

Albert Schweitzer 

Happiness depends upon ourselves 

Aristotle 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet 

James Oppenheim 

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realised it sooner

Colette

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Richard Bach

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

So, what makes you happy? 

The amazing world of Quotes

Quotes. They can bring you peace when everything is looking bad, or they can cheer you up and make you laugh. Everyone, at some point in life, will find at least one quote they love or agree with. Me, I have loads, so many I've started a book of them. From the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' quotes to the website with almost every quote you can think of.
 ---> www.brainyquote.com 

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny! 

 Mitch Hedberg

One of my many favourite quotes. But, if you don't agree with funny quotes, and are a nature person at heart, you can find those too. 

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. - 

Walter Scott

Bored of searching? They even have a 'Quote of the day' which, can give you some unusual ones. 


Quotes, though, are all around us. From Steven Fry to Martin Luther King Jr. they are all there, and I can guarantee you, you will have a laugh!!




ENJOY!!!! =)

Success and Failure... there isn't really much difference.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

 Henny Youngman

On the 10th December, this was one of the quotes of the day that flashed up on my news feed, and, because I liked it, I thought I would share it. There are so many quotes that start in the same way, for example: 

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.                                                                                                             

  W. C. Fields

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

And then there is my favourite one

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

W. C. Fields

Now it could be argued that some of these quotes are demoralising, and maybe they are. But there is something about them which makes them so fantastic to read and they make you realise that failing isn't so bad after all. Please, don't take this the wrong way and fail all your exams. That's not what I mean. Failing means we learn a valuable lesson. I now know a lot of random facts from failing at Pub Quiz's, but maybe in the long run, I will need the facts again and I'll be able to succeed. 

I'm going to leave you with a random question which I was once asked, and please send me your ideas on the answer, the more the better. 

If you attempt to fail and succeed, what have you done? 

Thank you 

Random

Taking part in a pub quiz last night, I learnt a lot of random facts. Here are a few:
- A wild ferret is called a Black-footed dog
- Colour TV was invented in 1938
- President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
- Saudi Arabia produces the most oil in the world 
- It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.


So after some random facts to improve your General Knowledge, here are some random quotes that I have found: 

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. 

Buddy Hackett 

All men are equal before fish. 

Herbert Hoover 

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it. 

Jerry Seinfeld

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant. 

Ellen DeGeneres 

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. 

Don Marquis 

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. 

Ronald Reagan  

While I have been writing this, I have managed to loose a pencil. If anyone is going near the Bermuda triangle, could they please pick it up for me? 

Thank You 

A child of five..

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx 

For quotes that make you laugh, this is certainly one of them. One of my favourites actually. A child of five. Now, I can think of two different ways you could read this:

1. One of five children 

2. A five year old child 

Now, you may think that I'm slightly weird, and I will admit that I can seem that way. No point being normal, is there? But, I have another reason for blogging about his quote. While studying History, I came across the name Karl Marx and wondered if they were related. And here are my findings. 

No they aren't related. Groucho Marx was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He lived mainly in Los Angeles but was born in New York in 1870, dying in Los Angeles in 1977. His parents were Jewish and they grew up on East 93rd Street off Lexington Avenue in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.

Anyway, here are my top 10 (not including the one above) favourite Groucho Marx quotes! 

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.  

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.  

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.  

I intend to live forever, or die trying.  

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.  

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. 

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. 

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. 

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.