June 2008 Quotes!!
Current mood: sassy
The third week into June finds me melting in the sauna of my stifling apartment without air conditioning as temperatures outside soar to triple digits… another reason to be grateful for work! :) Please be sure to join the most recent of my occupational responsibilities: The Oliver Peoples Myspace Page and The Oliver Peoples Sunglasses Pages!
On a sad note, comedian George Carlin passed away today. Therefore, it seems only fitting to share some witty words. RIP GC - Thanks for making us think… and laugh!
“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.”
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
“The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election.”
“I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
(June 3rd)
What a strange summer in California will this be for me… the frenetic energy of the sunglass industry in summer, still, but without the long days, without the numbers I don’t understand, without the confinement of a regular schedule. My new position at work both inspires and frightens me. I’ve so long focused on my job that I have little life outside the office. Now that I am afforded the opportunity, I have no life to get back to. LOL! Good grief. Bring it on, Summer!
“The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall…” - unknown
“A life without love is like a year without summer.” - Swedish proverb
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” - John Lubbock (English Biologist and Politician, 1834-1913)
“Ah, summer - what power you have to make us suffer and like it!” - Russell Baker (American Journalist and Columnist, b.1925)
