Roald Dahl's Esio Trot

"I suppose that a man who goes to such terrible trouble to fulfill a woman's dream must be quite exceptional indeed.."


Lovely movie with Judy Dench and Dustin Hoffman .

Ah les jeunes....

"Les jeunes d'aujourd'hui aiment le luxe, méprisent l'autorité et bavardent au lieu de travailler. Ils ne se lèvent plus lorsqu'un adulte pénètre dans la pièce où ils se trouvent. Ils contredisent leurs parents, plastronnent en société, se hâtent à table d'engloutir les desserts, croisent les jambes et tyrannisent leurs maîtres. Nos jeunes aiment le luxe, ont de mauvaises manières, se moquent de l'autorité et n'ont aucun respect pour l'âge. À notre époque, les enfants sont des tyrans."


Socrate (469-399 avant JC)


Comme quoi... Ca ne date pas d'hier!

Quote of the day - Don't be a follower...

" Don't be a follower.

Don't do the wrong things because others are doing them, Boo. Do the right things."

The Colour of Law

Mark Gimenez



Excellente quote. Si il n'y avait qu'une chose a apprendre a un enfant, celle-la...

Quote of the day

Quote que je viens juste de lire, appliquee en l'occurence a la difference de point de vue qu'il peut exister entre le senior management et la base:

"...the ‘view from the top’ can be very different. When you are at 30,000ft it is hard to tell the difference between green fields and swamps. You can find out for sure only when you land."

Excellent.

xkcd, parce que c'est vendredi

Un blog-cartoon que je trouve excellent: xkcd ou "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language"

'The strongest incentive that we have to develop faster-than-light travel is that it would let us apologise in advance."


Ou en core celui-la, tout aussi bon:



Ca pourrait vraiment etre ma 'quote of the day'.

Martin Milan

  

Dommage que cette BD de Goddard n'ait pas continue; moi j'aimais bien. Beaucoup d'emotion, de poesie et d'irone aussi. Et de l'aventure.

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Zenor Melpomene Golgott, conte de Krapula: " ..Soyez franc! Je ne vous fais pas horreur?"
Martin: "La tete des gens me laisse completement froid. C'est ce qu'il y a a l'interieur qui me flanque la frousse."

Martin Milan, "Une Ombre est passee", Goddard. p30

Another quote of the day

You are responsible for your children, their well-being, education, welfare. Your children are not your property

Liberally quoted from 'The complete guide of Raising Happy Children', Steve Biddulph

Quote of the day... again

Agent Smith, The Matrix:

"I'd like to share a revelation I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, You move to an area and you multiply... and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we … are the cure."


Can't help but kind of agree with him, sometimes....

"Advice to My Kids"

En fait pas de moi, mais sur un blog assez sympha: http://zenhabits.net/

"Advice to my kids" donc. Mais aussi pour moi-meme.
Et notamment:

• You are good enough. 
• All you need to be happy is within you. 
• Spend less than you earn. 
• Learn to love healthy food. 
• Learn compassion. 
• Never stop learning. 
• Savor life. 
• Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.
• Open your heart. Most of all, love yourself.

Plein de choses simples, mais qui meritent d'etre dites.

My Quote of the day

"Never be afraid of trying something new.

Remember, amateurs built the ark.

Professionals built the Titanic.

Anonymous"