Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 446

4 09 2010

“If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world’s music heritage will disappear.”

- Ray Davies





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 445

30 08 2010

‎”The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”

- Chris Hedges





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 444

23 08 2010

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.

-Author Unknown





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 443

22 08 2010

- Tina Dico





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 442

21 08 2010

“Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.”

- Pliny the Elder





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 441

20 08 2010

“fat wallets are unacceptable, fat money clips are very acceptable” – Kookie





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 440

17 08 2010

“The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It’s equality of opportunity. There’s a fundamental difference.”  - Robert Reich





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 439

17 08 2010

“Speak without anger or spite without any artificiality or formality straight from the heart, then you will be spreading joy and love among all.”

- Sri Sathya Sai Baba





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 438

17 08 2010


“The history of a people is found in its song” – George Jellinek





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 437

17 08 2010

“M.I.A’s from the future. Our present is her past.” – Kanye West





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 436

16 08 2010

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

- Carl Sandburg





Don’t Quote Vol. 435

15 08 2010





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 434

13 08 2010

“I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food” – Erma Bombeck





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 433

12 08 2010

“Check your diva before I wreck your diva!” – Morgan McMichaels





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 432

11 08 2010





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 431

10 08 2010

“Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion”

- Gandhi





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 430

9 08 2010

“And if you do me right
I’m gonna do right by you
And if you keep it tight
I’m gonna confide in you
I know what’s on your mind
There will be time for that too
If you hang with me
Hang with me”

- Robyn on “Hang With Me”





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 429

5 08 2010

“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.” -Edward Gibbon





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 428

4 08 2010

“Everybody knows how life can get so twisted / But I won’t let it bring me down / There’s no point in ever trying to resist it / Just work it out / All we need is love in this life it’s true.”

- Kylie Minogue on “Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)”

Sketch by Twaibah.




Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 427

3 08 2010

“Nouveau riche (French for “new rich”), or new money, refers to a person who has acquired considerable wealth within his or her generation.[1] This term is generally to emphasize that the individual was previously part of a lower socioeconomic rank, and that such wealth has provided the means for the acquisition of goods or luxuries that were previously unobtainable. The term can also be used in a derogatory fashion, for the purposes of social class distinction, to describe persons with newfound wealth as lacking the experience or finesse to use wealth in the same manner as old money—persons from families who have been wealthy for multiple generations.”

- Wikipedia





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 426

2 08 2010

“Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say ’cause if you’re not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.”

- Ani DiFranco on “What If No One’s Watching.”

Photography by Jana AlNaqeeb




Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 425

29 07 2010

“Squint your eyes and look closer
I’m not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I’m beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
Cuz someday you might find you’re starving
And eating all of the words you said”

- Ani DiFranco on “32 Flavors”





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 424

27 07 2010

“A boca tancada, no hi entra mosca.” – Catalan proverb

Translation: In a shut mouth, no fly will go in.
Photography by Me.




Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 423

25 07 2010

“An empty barrel sings in the wind” – Croatian proverb





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 422

18 07 2010

“I was a people-pleaser and I had to unlearn that” – Sheryl Crow





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 421

16 07 2010

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”  - Abraham Lincoln





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 420

15 07 2010

“Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood.”  - Louisa May Alcott





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 419

14 07 2010

“In time of test, family is best.”  - Burmese Proverb





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 417

8 07 2010

“You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by.

Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”

- James Matthew Barrie





Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 416

6 07 2010

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

- Simone de Beauvoir