The Ball Is In Your Court:
It is your decision this time.
The Best Of Both Worlds:
There are two choices and you have them both.
The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall:
While the bigger and stronger opponent might be alot more difficult to beat, when you do they suffer a much bigger loss.
The Last Straw:
When one small burden after another creates an unbearable situation, the last straw is the last small burden that one can take.
The Whole Nine Yards:
Everything. All of it.
Third times a charm:
After no success the first two times, the third try is a lucky one. Tie the knot: To get married.
Til the cows come home:
A long time.
To Make A Long Story Short:
Something someone would say during a long and boring story in order to keep his/her audience from losing attention. Usually the story isn't shortened.
To Steal Someone's Thunder:
To take the credit for something someone else did.
Tongue-in-cheek:
humor, not to be taken serious.
Turn A Blind Eye: Refuse to acknowledge something you know is real or legit.
Twenty three skidoo:
To be turned away.
Under the weather:
Feeling ill or sick.
Up a blind alley:
Going down a course of action that leads to a bad outcome.
Use Your Loaf:
Use your head. Think smart.
Van Gogh's ear for music:
Tone deaf.
Variety Is The Spice Of Life:
The more experiences you try the more exciting life can be.
Wag the Dog:
A diversion away from something of
greater importance.
Water Under The Bridge:
Anything from the past that isn't significant or important anymore.
Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve:
To openly and freely express your
emotions.
When It Rains, It Pours:
Since it rarely rains, when it does it will be a huge storm.
When Pigs Fly :
Something that will never ever happen.
Wild and Woolly:
Uncultured and without laws.
Wine and Dine: When somebody is treated to an expensive meal.
Without A Doubt:
For certain.
X marks the spot: A phrase that is said when someone finds something he/she has been looking for.
You Are What You Eat:
In order to stay healthy you must eat
healthy foods.
You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover: Decisions shouldn't be made primarily on
appearance.
You Can't Take it With You:
Enjoy what you have and not what you don't have, since when you die you cannot take things (such as money) with you.
Your Guess Is As Good As Mine:
I have no idea.
Zero Tolerance:
No crime or law breaking big or small will be overlooked.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Christina Rossetti Poetry
REMEMBER
by: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
REMEMBER me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and besad.
"Remember" is reprinted from Goblin Market and other Poems. Christina Rossetti. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862.
DREAM LAND
by: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
WHERE sunless rivers weep
Their waves into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleep:
Awake her not.
Led by a single star,
She came from very far
To seek where shadows are Her pleasant lot.
She left the rosy morn,
She left the fields of corn,
For twilight cold and lorn
And water springs.
Through sleep, as through a veil,
She sees the sky look pale, And hears the nightingale
That sadly sings.
Rest, rest, a perfect rest
Shed over brow and breast;
Her face is toward the west,
The purple land.
She cannot see the grain
Ripening on hill and plain; She cannot feel the rain
Upon her hand.
Rest, rest, for evermore
Upon a mossy shore;
Rest, rest at the heart's core
Till time shall cease:
Sleep that no pain shall wake;
Night that no morn shall break Till joy shall overtake
Her perfect peace.
"Dream Land" is reprinted from Poems. Christina Rossetti. London: Macmillan,
1891.
SHE SAT AND SANG
by: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
HE sat and sang alway
By the green margin of a stream,
Watching the fishes leap and play
Beneath the glad sunbeam.
I sat and wept alway
Beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
Watching the blossoms of the May
Weep leaves into the stream.
I wept for memory;
She sang for hope that is so fair:
My tears were swallowed by the sea;
Her songs died in the air.
"She Sat and Sang" is reprinted from Goblin Market,
The Prince's Progress and Other Poems. Christina
Rosetti. London: Macmillan 1879.
by: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
REMEMBER me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and besad.
"Remember" is reprinted from Goblin Market and other Poems. Christina Rossetti. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862.
DREAM LAND
by: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
WHERE sunless rivers weep
Their waves into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleep:
Awake her not.
Led by a single star,
She came from very far
To seek where shadows are Her pleasant lot.
She left the rosy morn,
She left the fields of corn,
For twilight cold and lorn
And water springs.
Through sleep, as through a veil,
She sees the sky look pale, And hears the nightingale
That sadly sings.
Rest, rest, a perfect rest
Shed over brow and breast;
Her face is toward the west,
The purple land.
She cannot see the grain
Ripening on hill and plain; She cannot feel the rain
Upon her hand.
Rest, rest, for evermore
Upon a mossy shore;
Rest, rest at the heart's core
Till time shall cease:
Sleep that no pain shall wake;
Night that no morn shall break Till joy shall overtake
Her perfect peace.
"Dream Land" is reprinted from Poems. Christina Rossetti. London: Macmillan,
1891.
SHE SAT AND SANG
by: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
HE sat and sang alway
By the green margin of a stream,
Watching the fishes leap and play
Beneath the glad sunbeam.
I sat and wept alway
Beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
Watching the blossoms of the May
Weep leaves into the stream.
I wept for memory;
She sang for hope that is so fair:
My tears were swallowed by the sea;
Her songs died in the air.
"She Sat and Sang" is reprinted from Goblin Market,
The Prince's Progress and Other Poems. Christina
Rosetti. London: Macmillan 1879.
All quotes
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Victory goes to the player who makes
the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch
Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that
great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting
diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"If a man does his best, what else is
there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"Political correctness is tyranny with
manners."
- Charlton Heston (1924-2008)
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot
avoid the consequences of avoiding
reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig (1948-)
"Sex and religion are closer to each
other than either might prefer."
- Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)
"I can write better than anybody who
can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)
"Not everything that can be counted
counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
- Richard Dawkins (1941-)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- definition of "happiness" by John F.
Kennedy (1917-1963)
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e ecummings (1894-1962)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his
orchestra
"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of WilliamShakespeare
"In theory, there is no difference
between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra
"I find that the harder I work, the
more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650),
"Discours de la Methode"
"In the End, we will remember not
the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm
pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Problems worthy of attack prove their
worth by fighting back."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Try to learn something about everything
and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides (556-468bc)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali
(1904-1989) "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in
your
closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard
Shaw (1856-1950) "But at my back I always hear
Time's
winged chariot hurrying near." - Andrew Marvell
(1621-1678) "Good people do not need laws to tell
them
to act responsibly, while bad people will find
a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) "The
power of accurate observation is
frequently called cynicism by those who
don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog
called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you
have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves
contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
"We have art to save ourselves from the
truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Never
interrupt your enemy when he is
making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Victory goes to the player who makes
the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch
Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that
great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting
diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"If a man does his best, what else is
there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"Political correctness is tyranny with
manners."
- Charlton Heston (1924-2008)
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot
avoid the consequences of avoiding
reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig (1948-)
"Sex and religion are closer to each
other than either might prefer."
- Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)
"I can write better than anybody who
can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)
"Not everything that can be counted
counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
- Richard Dawkins (1941-)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- definition of "happiness" by John F.
Kennedy (1917-1963)
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e ecummings (1894-1962)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his
orchestra
"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of WilliamShakespeare
"In theory, there is no difference
between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra
"I find that the harder I work, the
more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650),
"Discours de la Methode"
"In the End, we will remember not
the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm
pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Problems worthy of attack prove their
worth by fighting back."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Try to learn something about everything
and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides (556-468bc)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali
(1904-1989) "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in
your
closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard
Shaw (1856-1950) "But at my back I always hear
Time's
winged chariot hurrying near." - Andrew Marvell
(1621-1678) "Good people do not need laws to tell
them
to act responsibly, while bad people will find
a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) "The
power of accurate observation is
frequently called cynicism by those who
don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog
called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you
have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves
contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
"We have art to save ourselves from the
truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Never
interrupt your enemy when he is
making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
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