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Quotes to Keep
a collection
from Nancy Kamp

 

Name

"A chair is only a chair because we say it's a chair."  Mal Pancoast

Nation

"America understands that a nation is not great because its economy is flourishing or its army invincible but because its ideals are loftier."  Elie Wiesel

"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."  Thucydides  

National park

"It's amazing how many historic battles were fought in national parks."  Shoe  

Nature

Countryside:  "A soggy sort of place where animals and birds wander about uncooked." Diana Rigg,  "The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries,"  Mystery  

"I got nature on my hand."  Monk

"Nature is a place to throw beer cans on Sunday."  H. L. Mencken

"No TV!  No hot tubs!"  Jill Kamp

"Put up as many fences as you like, you can't keep Nature out."  Nature

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, one finds it attached to the rest of the world."  John Muir

Naysayer 

"Naysayers and flies always survive."  Jon Spoelstra,  Marketing Outrageously

Nazi

"I have a brother in Germany who is getting involved with that bastard Hitler and he will come to a bad end if he continues that way."  Albert Gőring

Neatness

"E verything is handy if you don't put it away."  Nancy Kamp

Necessity 

"Necessity never made a bargain."  Benjamin Franklin

Neighbor

"If we moved next door, your lawn would die."  Lemmy Kilmister

Nerd 

"High-school girls, be nice to nerds.  They age very well.  The baby fat disappears; the gawkiness softens.  Social skills and a sense of style catch up.  New eyewear is purchased.  The lessons of suffering transmute into sensitivity and an attractively strong sense of self.  And nerds make lots more money than the hunky  high-school studs, who peaked at 17 and by the age of 30 are saddled with wounded egos, child support, drinking problems and all the wrong values.  Give me a man who reads."  Kathy Bailey,  letter to Newsweek

"The nerds were right."  Signs

"There is something wonderful about being a nerd."  Tom Rogers

Nero  

Networking

"If the house is on fire, forget the chins, silver, and wedding album - grab the Rolodex."  Harvey MacKay

Neurosis 

"How can you sleep if your shoes are touching?"  Wings

Neutrality 

"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.  Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."  Elie Wiesel

New Jersey

"How can you not like Jersey?"  Janet Evanovich, To the Nines: A Stephanie Plum Novel

"I feel like I'm in Fallujah.  I don't have enough soldiers.  The enemy is out there.  And we're fighting the same battle over and over and over again."  Edwin Figueroa, Camden, NJ police chief

"Not going to New Jersey isn't procrastination.  It's common sense."  Igby Goes Down

"Nothing defeats us in Jersey."  Janet Evanovich, To the Nines: A Stephanie Plum Novel

"The cradle of civilization."  Kevin Smith, director

"The testosterone level in Jersey is fiften per cent higher than in any other state."  Janet Evanovich,  Plum Lovin'

New York City

"I love New York."  Mohammed Al-douri, Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations under Saddam Hussein

"It doesn't matter that America is not my country.  New York is my city."  Alexandr Manin

"New York City is absolutely the greatest city on earth."  David Letterman

"New York City is the capital city of the world."  Rudolph Giuliani

"This is my heart and soul, this city."  Debra Messing

News 

"Don't read newspapers.  They're not just bad for trees.  Don't watch TV news.  Look at those anchors in their wigs and ridiculous hairdos.  Can you trust people who are lying about their appearance?"  Eric Idle

"News is meaningless without perspective."  Newsweek.MSNBC.com ad

"There's a bias towards crap."  Bernard Goldberg

Nice

"Nice is for shrimp salads and grandmothers.  I'm not interested in nice."  Once and Again

Nicephorus II

"A monstrosity of a man, a dwarf, fat-headed and with tiny mole's eyes"  Liudprand

"Nicephorus was one of Byzantium's most impressive warrior-emperors." Colin Wells,  Sailing from Byzantium

Night

"God is closer during the night."  Unknown

"Night is simply a badly lit version of day."  Lemony Snicket,  The Slippery Slope

Richard Nixon

"He wasn't exclusively anti-Semetic.  He was anti-Semetic, anti-Italian, anti-greek, anti-Slovak ... He hated everybody."  Allen Greenspan

No

"I'm trying to think of a word that's no-er than 'no.'"  Zits

Nobility

"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man.  True nobility is being superior to your former self."  Hindu proverb

Noise

"Noise is torture to all intellectual people."  Arthur Schopenhauer

Normal

"The mistake people make is to assume things will return to normal.  Normal is what we have now."  Unknown

"Things don't have to be sane when they're normal."  Carol Plum-Ucci,  The Body of Christopher Creed   

"Tisn't normally anymore."  The Cazelets

Nothing 

"A little nothing, oh God, goes a long, long way."  Kurt Vonnegut,   God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: Or Pearls...  

"Hell is more bearable than nothingness."  Philip James Bailey

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."  Edmund Burke

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."  Charles Caleb Colton

Now 

"The way things are going these days, now is all we've got."  Andromeda

Numbers

"Don't get even, get odd."  Unknown Zen master

"Numbers don't lie.  But they do brag from time to time."  The Hartford ad

Nun 

Nut

"Sometimes eating a walnut is preferable to getting hacked to death or set on fire."  Gilmore Girls

 

 

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The Nanny Diaries is one of the saddest books I've ever read.  Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus have managed to write a fictionalized account of their former lives in child care that is truly depressing because the plot stems from immature and short-sighted selfishness - not  great evil or natural disaster.

Several days after finishing the book, I still find myself brooding about it.  Despite my emotions, the book is an easy and sometimes amusing read so grab a copy and you'll see why I didn't want to put it down.  Nancy

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Morality and death sometimes intertwine to beget evil.  In Nazi Germany, the product of that union was death for millions.  Michael Burleigh examines the era in The Third Reich, a New History from the human perspective, "when sections of the German elite and masses of ordinary people chose to abdicate their individual critical faculties in favour of a politics based on faith, hope hatred and sentimental collective self-regard for their own race and nation."  

The Third Reich is well researched and hefty, but a much easier read than the scope of the work would suggest.  Nancy

 

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"Somewhere in these web pages it's very likely there's a quote that says, "We can't not be what we are."  Those words kept popping into my mind as I read Kelly James' Dancing with the Witchdoctor.

James is a Third World private detective, who has spent a great deal of time in Africa because she read about Sir Richard Burton when she was 12.  Her book details adventures that most of us might prefer to experience vicariously - but who doesn't secretly yearn to be up to the demands of great adventure?

The point is that James has had a life worth sharing, so read her book.  As for me, I'm looking forward to her next volume, counting my blessings and plotting to make lemonade* with the rest of my allotted existence.  Nancy

*"When life hands you lemons, make lemonade."  Unknown

"Thanks so much for reviewing my book."  Kelly James

 

 

I forget the details about "the noblest Roman of them all."  Probably it was Shakespeare putting words into the mouth of Marcus Antonius about Julius Caesar.  In any case, the Romans kept slaves, practiced infanticide by exposure, crucified thousands and pillaged the known world, so how noble could any of them have been by our standards?

But the names of some REALLY bad guys have come down to us through the mists of history, and one of those was the Emperor Nero.  He murdered his mother - herself a murderer - as well as his first wife.  And Tacitus tells us Nero went in for persecuting Christians in a big way.   Enter Richard Holland to set the record straight.

In Nero, the Man Behind the Myth, Holland says, "Hostile myth-makers were at work on his case, they transformed him from the people's favourite into bogeyman to frighten children."  

That doesn't mean that Nero was a good guy.  He was complex, self-absorbed and he meant well, which almost never turns out for the better.  But Holland's treatment is fascinating and readable - an excellent combination.  Nancy 

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"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?"  P. G. Wodehouse

Crime is fascinating as long as we're not the victims.  Crimes of New York tells many stories of crooks and criminals, and despite the inclusion of a lighthearted short story by my favorite author, P. G. Wodehouse, this is no whimsical romp.  Nancy

 

 

Religious make great detectives according to authors of popular fiction. 

My newest favorite sleuthing nun comes from Alys Clare, who can no doubt trace her roots to the prominent Clare family of the late Middle Ages.  However she does it, Clare knows her stuff.  Her heroine is an excellent successor to the late Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael.  (Don't miss that series either.)  It's a few generations later, but the times are still turbulent - evil Prince John and King Richard (who should have stayed home and tended to his kingdom) are keeping the background interesting.

The first volume is Fortune Like the Moon.   Nancy

 

 

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What could be better than one sleuthing, Medieval nun?  Why two, of course.  Begin with Margaret Frazer's The Novice's Tale, and you will be onto a better thing Nancy

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