Monet, "La femme au parasol," 1886, Musee d'Orsay.

A "quotation," in the art-historical sense of the portrait paintings of Gainsborough, Romney, or Joshua Reynolds?

http://www.wga.hu/html_m/m/monet/07/1vario03.html

Ragdoll: "lorsqu'on le porte, il devient aussi mou qu'une poupée de chiffon" (Wikipedia)

Ragdoll

Race d'animaux

Le ragdoll est une race de chats originaire des États-Unis. Le nom de ce chat de grande taille provient d'une particularité étonnante : lorsqu'on le porte, il devient aussi mou qu'une poupée de chiffon, « ragdoll » en anglais. Wikipédia

Origine  : États-Unis

Classification  : Chat

J'estime donc que mon chat est "ragdoll."

Elle etait tres mignonne comme bebe, elle l'est toujours.

Pas il y a longtemps.

"What my cats do seems infinitely more interesting and meaningful..." -Lillian H.

What my cats do in their daily lives seems, to me at least, infinitely more interesting and meaningful--from minutely observing the street from the window of my apartment to licking their paws with exquisite grace or to sniffing my bowl of oatmeal--than the activities of my fellow human beings.

They live in the present moment.

If only homo sapiens, my fellow human beings, were a quarter as attractive as felis domesticus.

As it is, we have a world of 7 billion homo sapiens, not a few of whom are coarse, stupid, prejudiced, overweight, loud, materialistic, cruel, bored and boring.

"People are forgetting: George Zimmerman is not a white man (no more than Barack Obama is)." -Lily H.

George Zimmerman

You have the word of a Latino against that of the parents of a young black man who was slain.   Who do you choose to believe?

And on what basis:  skin color?  sympathy?  historical injustice?  cultural affinity (sports/music/movies)?

Which man is more "entitled" to being believed?

The Latino man (Zimmerman) states that he was being pinned on the ground and being pummeled by a tall black teen-ager and that he feared for his very life.  The parents say their child (Martin) was unarmed, not dangerous, and had simply gone out to buy a snack.*

* while, on his way home, crossing through a gated community

See also

http://lilliansblog-d.blogspot.com/

George Zimmerman after his encounter with Travyon Martin.

"No fems, fats, or Asians"

...Frequently seen on personal profiles of online gay hook-up sites

http://blog.jwloosecannon.com/2012/08/02/the-offensive-world-of-online-dating.aspx


I wonder, too, if Asians become the scapegoats for white Americans who find fault with the behavior of African-Americans but cannot voice the slightest criticism for fear of being tarred as "racist."

On growing old (Lillian H., Julie Christie...)

"Growing old
is not for sissies."

"We teach children how "to grow up," but no one teaches us--once we have grown up--how to grow old."

-Attrib. Lillian H.

"We never thought we would grow old."

Attrib. Julie Christie, actress (Dr. Zhivago, Away from Her), human rights activist

deformis formositas ac formosa deformitas (Bernard de Clairvaux)

Abbaye de Fontenay

deformis formositas ac formosa deformitas

(Bernard de Clairvaux)

http://books.google.com/books?id=5hve2_IPDNMC&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=deformis+formositas+ac+formosa+deformitas&source=bl&ots=GK2tpN8GaG&sig=LneH6aeImEYUfPEjahjFxpCJRP4&hl=en&ei=4NLFSbLuB4nKtQPg__SABw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA186,M1

"I have literally swum across the United States" (Jen Graves)

"I have literally swum across the United States" (Jen Graves in The Stranger)

But there's 3,000 miles of land--not water--between the West and East Coasts of the United States, dear Jen.

Clumsy hyperbole, fib, or just a poor command of the English language?

In The Stranger (July 3-9, 2013), Jen Graves in a paean to Coleman Pool (in Lincoln Park) makes the unequivocal assertion that she literally swam across the United States! She adds that she was a competitive synchronized swimmer for many years.

I guess she brooks no editorial disagreement.  Either that, or her editors were asleep at the desk.