If you could host the ultimate dinner party, which three people (dead or living) would you invite and what would you eat?
~ Danielle Appelman, USOC Media Services, 2006
“Abraham Lincoln — I just want to talk to him. I’d just like to see what he really says, what his true feelings were. We have what’s on paper and what people wrote about him. So I would like to see from his mouth what he was going though especially to be in a position like that. I would invite Jesus because that would be insane. And then I guess I would like to meet the very first of the Ohno family from Japan. And food — we would have whatever they wanted. Whatever Jesus wanted, whatever the man
wanted — I’m not saying we’re not going for Mexican; hey if they want nachos, they can have nachos. They can have whatever they want, this one’s on me.”
~ Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater,
5-time Olympic Medalist,
Asian American Hall of Fame, 2007
thought for the week
thought for the week
“Language is the tool of my trade, and I use them all — all the Englishes I grew up with.”
“Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.”
“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”
~ Amy Tan, American novelist
thought for the week
“I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20’s, and into my 30’s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.”
“Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that’s true in any creative field.”
“How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It’s more evident now.”
~ Maya Lin, American Artist, Sculptor, Architect
thought for the week
“Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
thought for the week
“Women are like tea bags.
They don’t know how strong they are
until they get into hot water.”
~ Nancy Reagan
Jama's Alphabet Soup 