Quotable Quotes: Women Know!
March 1, 2009 by Miki Saxon
Did you read the links from yesterday? I hope so, because some of these quotes play off those articles.
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” –Agatha Christie (Good words to remember these days.)
“A woman is like a tea bag, you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” –Eleanor Roosevelt (This is one of my all-time favorites; it’s stood me in good stead for a long time now.)
“The naked truth …read more
Quotable quotes: wisdom from Watterson
September 21, 2008 by Miki Saxon
I love the comics. I’ve followed a lot of good ones over the years, but my hands down all-time favorite is Calvin and Hobbs written by Bill Watterson.Watterson is an interesting guy. He never allowed any commercial products to be made from his strip—no stuffed Hobbs (or I’d have one!), no Calvin dolls, nothing. And he allowed the compilations of his strips only grudgingly. (I own most of them.)
When he decided to stop that was it.
Obviously, he wasn’t driven by money; he didn’t want celebrity. He said what he wanted to say—no more and no less. But what he said …read more


