Quote: Charles R Swindoll

“The longer I live, the more I realise the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

-  Charles R Swindoll (1934 - )

Quote: Malcolm Ford

"My daddy is a movie actor, and sometimes he plays the good guy and sometimes he plays the lawyer."

- Malcolm Ford, explaining to pre-school classmates what his father, Harrison Ford, does for a living

Quote: Robert F Kennedy

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”

Robert F Kennedy (1925-1968)

Quote: Beryl Bainbridge (1934 - )

"The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour."

Quote: Joe Valachi (1903-1971)

“You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.”

Joe Valachi, US gangster, testifying in 1963 to a US Senate committee about the Mafia. The murder, carried out in prison in 1962, was with a pipe from a nearby construction site and was of a man, Joe Saupp, who Valachi had mistaken for a Mafia member by the name of Joseph DiPalermo.

Quote: Rita Rudner (1953 - )

"I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose. "

Quote: Mossy

If you haven't seen them on the TV, you will have seen their pics on the billboards around Sydney... Matt and Gabrielle Moss, aka Mossy and Gabe, the NSW reps on My Kitchen Rules.  (Yep, I admit watching it and that I like it).  For those who don't watch it, My Kitchen Rules is like Masterchef with couples instead of individuals, all amateurs, who compete in cooking against temas from the other States.  Mossy is a detective and Gabe is a solicitor in real life.  So much for the belief that coppers live on Maccas.

Unfortunately they got booted on Tuesday night's show, which was a cook-off to make it to the grand final.

Interviewed afterward, Mossy summed up the experience:

"We learnt so much about cooking and we got to travel around Australia, stay in the best hotels, drink the finest of wines and sample wonderful food. I feel like I've had a big kick in the arse from a rainbow."

Quote: Tony Abbott

“..this is.. genuflection to political correctness...   Sometimes it's appropriate to do those things, but certainly I think in many contexts, it seems like out-of-place tokenism."

-  Tony Abbott (1957- )

commenting on the misplaced sense of political correctness of Labor Party members in acknowledging at official functions the traditional owners of land.

http://www.news.com.au/national/indigenous-tokenism-an-empty-gesture-says-tony-abbott/story-e6frfkvr-1225840824762

Quote: Albert Einstein

"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Quote: Joan Rivers (1933 - )

"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. "

Quote: Dwight D Eisenhower (1890-1969)

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

Quote: Kerry Packer (1937-2005)

“There is a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. What is your price?”

To the Australian Cricket Board in 1976, seeking the right to televise Test matches.

Quote: William Maldon "Bill" Woodfull (1897-1965)

“Which of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?”

During the controversial Bodyline cricket series between England and Australia in 1932-1933, the English captain Douglas Jardine visited the Australian dressing room and complained to the Australian captain, Bill Woodfull, that he had heard an Australian player call him “a bastard”. He demanded an apology.  Woodfull turned to the players in the dressing room and, pointing to Jardine, spoke the above words.

Pictured above:  Bill Woodfull on the left, Douglas Jardine on the right.

Quote: Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997)

"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"

(Because she was not a royal by blood, she was not entitled to be called Princess Diana. Her correct title was Lady Diana, Princess of Wales).

Quote: Mickey Rooney (1920 - )

 

“Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.”

(PS:  The above pic shows Mickey Rooney with American actress and 1950's sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, who was killed in a motor vehcile accident aged 34.  For the younger readers, Jayne Mansfield is the mother of actress Mariska Hargitay, who plays Detective Olivia Benson in Law & Order: SVU).

Quote: John F Kennedy (1917-1963)

“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”

Quote: Lillian Gish (1893-1993)

A happy life is one spent learning, earning and yearning."

-  Lillian Gish, American actress

Quote: Napoleon (1769-1821)

"Imagination governs the world."

Quote: John Wayne (1907-1979)

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

The same words appear on the plaque marking his grave:

Quote: Katherine Whitehorn (1926- )

“It is a pity, as my husband says, that more politicians are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.”