Quotable Quotes...

“ Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
- Cindy Clabough

“ You have to dream before your dreams can come true. ”
- Abdul Kalam

“ When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails. ”
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."  --  Mahatma Gandhi

“ Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ”
- Harold Coffin

"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."  --  Graham Greene 

“ The only thing constant in life is change. ”
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”  --  Dr. Seuss

Galah

I was a little pink Galah

Just sitting on the highway tar.

Just sitting, eating on the road

Wheat that spilt from someone’s load.

Fighting for the finest seed

Disgusted with my partner’s greed,

Then flying high to miss the cars

Which often flatten slow galahs.

Then landing on the road once more,

To get the wheat we’d missed before.

Just then I found a lovely grain

It made the other wheat look plain

It was big and rounded but

It had fallen in a rut.

My friends were squawking, “There’s a car,

Get off the road ya mad galah!”

I didn’t fly I’d just about

Got that delicious seed dug out.

My fiends were making quite a fuss

Squawking that “the car’s a bus!”

I got the seed an’ flew but splat

And now I’m feeling rather flat,

A very sore and sorry bird.

The driver hadn’t even heard

And here I am stuck on the grill

Feeling quite a dopey dill,

But not everyone can poach

A ride upon a tourist coach

And as I drive about today

I see the world a different way.

Life’s not only piles of grain

Sprinkled there like golden rain.

There’s other things along the road,

A dead wombat and flattened toad,

And there’s a mangled kangaroo

A victim of the highway too,

A blue tongue lizard thought it great

To lie and thermoregulate

In the middle of the road

But he’s squashed there like the toad.

The wombat with his tiny stride

Ran but found the road too wide,

The roo had some grass to munch,

Saw the lights and hopped then crunch.

Now eating them are hawks and crows,

There’s never any dead of those

And up here on the grill with me

There’s moths, grasshoppers and a bee,

A butterfly, a dragon fly,

The highway caused them all to die.

So all of you who use the road,

Drive a car or spill a load,

Or fly towards bright headlights

Or hop across the road at nights

Or lie there baking in the sun

Or run across the road for fun

Or eat the grass along the side

Just think of all of us who’ve died.

© David McK. Berman 1984

"I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born."  --  Hugo Pratt

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."  -- Ayn Rand

“ Get busy living or get busy dying. ”
- Stephen King

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."  --  Richard L Evans

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."  --  Ben Hogan

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."  --  Henry Ford

“ If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. ”
- Mario Andretti

“ Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. ”
- Louis L'Amour

This might be a repeat (of a Symantec Employee),  but it might also be a timely reminder.  -

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window - Alan Cox.