Quotes and other miscellany

I've finally gotten caught up on all of my blog reads and LJ posts. That was a lot of work. The last thing for me to read are the daily quotes feed.

Ellen Parr
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Bernard Bailey
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."

Vladimir Nabokov
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Garrison Keillor
"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

Samuel Butler
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."