Paula Yoo Interview: The Anna May Wong Story

R.I.P. David

born John Arthur Carradine, December 8, 1936 - June 3, 2009

American actor, best known for his work in the 1970's television series Kung Fu and more recently in the movie Kill Bill. He appeared in more than 100 feature films and was nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award.

On June 4, 2009, Carradine was found dead in his room at the Park Nai Lert Hotel in Junfan Mulay, Bangkok, Thailand.

www.gratefulness.org

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

~Thomas Merton

My friend Rhonda alerted me to this hilarious spoof of Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Hollingsworth Redmoon

I am totally inspired by Tara's post today. Go read and enjoy:Paris Parfait: Summoning courage as opportunity knocks.

The Importance of Being Wilde

"Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom."
— Oscar Wilde (Salome)

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-Oscar Wilde

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-Oscar Wilde

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. -Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. -Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
-Oscar Wilde

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. -Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. -Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. -Oscar Wilde

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. -Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. -Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. -Oscar Wilde