Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Recently read Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and enjoyed it very much. Happened to run across a copy in a book cooperative in Asbury Park NJ and was hooked. Before that I had seen the 1954 movie version of the same name with Kirk Douglas as Ned Land and James Mason as Captain Nemo but remember very little else. Had never even picked up the book before. Now I heartily recommend it (as brain candy only). It makes me want to pick up Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan once more. Loved that series as a kid but as an adult I'm afraid a work from an early age may prove to be too racist. Such was not the case with Rudyard Kipling's Kim (which I also recently re-read again and not as brain candy).

One thing I noticed was that the Nautilus was described as an all-electric vessel. This would make it the first EV described in history long predating the advent of an electric or gas power automobile.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"I dream with my eyes open." - Jules Verne

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The reward for our work is not what we get, but what we become." - Paulo Coelho

"Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal. Because it would require total state control over its citizens' lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons." - Ron Paul