"Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at." - Jimmy Demaret

"Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun." - John Lennon

"Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are." ~Marsha Norman

"I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all"
-Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now

"But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost but something's gained
In living every day"
-Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now

"Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way"
-Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." - Drew Carey

"Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it." - Adam Sandler

"Traveling through life is equivalent to an open terrain." - Someone Well-Known

“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.” - Unknown Author

"You know you're following in the footsteps of giants when you stumble into one once in a while." - Dan Maller, Falls Church City Councilman

"To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship." ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

"What do you see when you turn out the light? I can't tell you, but I know it's mine."
- The Beatles

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" ~Mark Twain

“Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.” -Havelock Ellis

"A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope." ~William Bolitho

Here's to a long life and a merry one;
A quick death and an easy one;
A pretty girl and an honest one;
A cold beer and another one!
-Irish Saying

"The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche." ~Cesar Pelli

"Why walk when you can cartwheel?" -Unknown

"This is not a race; but, it is a marathon."
-EM 3/14/2010

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes (Quote for March 13, 2010 - posted on 3/14/2010)

To all my friends in town for Shamrock Fest:
"Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. " - Billie Holiday

"You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker."
- Richard Roeper

"The stars wouldn't be so high if you weren't suppose to reach for them."

-Donald S. McGowan, my oldest brother (This 'scope' is dedicated to John J. McGowan, my youngest brother)

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." -Charles Dickens

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
- Ralph W. Sockman

"You've gone a million miles
How far'd you get
To that place where you can't remember
And you can't forget"
-Bruce Springsteen, Secret Garden Lyrics, 1995

“Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.”
- Bo Jackson

"And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words." -Khalil Gibran

"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in." ~Robert Orben

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust

"We all try to defend ourselves so we won't get hurt." -Voice of Mary Alice Young, Desperate Housewives (Season 6, Episode 9 - Would You Think of Suicide?)

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson