"If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.”
- Billy Wilder

“Bill Walton was truly one of a kind,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “As a Hall of Fame player, he redefined the center position. His unique all-around skills made him a dominant force at UCLA and led to an NBA regular-season and Finals MVP, two NBA championships and a spot on the NBA’s 50th and 75th Anniversary Teams.

Bill then translated his infectious enthusiasm and love for the game to broadcasting, where he delivered insightful and colorful commentary which entertained generations of basketball fans.

But what I will remember most about him was his zest for life. He was a regular presence at league events – always upbeat, smiling ear to ear and looking to share his wisdom and warmth. I treasured our close friendship, envied his boundless energy and admired the time he took with every person he encountered.”



Every day Wooden would fill the heads of his players with ideas that would help them in life – not just on the court. “To this day,” says Walton, “I have John Wooden quotes on and around my desk – and also the John Wooden Pyramid of Success.” Bill Walton goes into more detail about his relationship with the legendary UCLA basketball coach and his favorite John Wooden quotes in his bestselling autobiography: Back from the Dead.



-The Seven-Point Creed:

-Be true to yourself
-Make each day your masterpiece
-Help others
-Drink deeply from good books
-Make friendship a fine art
-Build a shelter against a rainy day
-Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day

John Wooden

“You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” — Albert Einstein 

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

General Patton

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

 buzz wrote:

She just saying or what?

"Keith Richards looks 40 years younger now than he did when he was 40"

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Elegance is inferior to virtue.

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.

Dr. Magnus Pyke

"This is not left vs right anymore, it's normal vs crazy." 

Riley Gaines

A local here celebrating his 108th birthday today said
'close your eyes and dream when you go to bed tonight but remember to keep breathing or you will wake up dead '

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

probably should be in the political thread...

If you listen to fools, 
the mob rules

 miamizsun wrote:

 oldviolin wrote:

Next to my wife and family, I'll miss music the most when I'm gone...
BIL

They done made this Bull Junk personal!

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; 
and of course, as long as you are looking down, 
you cannot see something above you. 

seen on Twitter:

"Gedankenfreiheit haben wir. Jetzt brauchen wir nur noch die Gedanken."

  ok, so we've already got freedom of thought. All we need now are the thoughts

Random YouToober posting from a car...

"The inside of this rental car smells like Saddam Hussein's sandal."