JUDGING THE BOOK

"When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome. Then, of course, you spoke."
- CAROL CONNELLY (Helen Hunt) in As Good As It Gets (1997)

Here's your opening line. Take it to a natural conclusion.

Monday Musings

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it's not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ~Benjamen Disraeli

Monday Musings

All generalizations are bad.  ~R.H. Grenier

Monday Just Gets Curiouser and Curiouser

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." -Carl Rogers

Storm Chasing

"Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm." - Veronica Mars

Monday Munchtime

"An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible." -Anonymous

Movie Quote Monday

"That book was accidentally destroyed maliciously." -Gru, Despicable Me

Monday ... Midnight

"I ascend from the moon, I ascend from the night..." -Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself

Monday Meow!

"The tiger can't change his spots. No, wait, he did! Good for him!" -Jack Handey

Monday Musings

"They certainly give very strange names to diseases." -Plato

Mostly Monday

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. -Mark Twain

Mystified Monday

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa

Monday Munchtime

"Rock and Roll is the hamburger that ate the world." - Peter York

Monday Muse

“A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.” - James Matthew Barrie

Monday Meanderings

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. - Rose Franken

Monday Musings

"My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating." -Ashleigh Brilliant

Monday Misstep

The darker the character, the more interesting. -Robert Carlyle

Monday Maelstrom

'Tis an ill wind that blows no mind. - Malaclypse the Younger

Monday Muse

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory. Cate Blanchett, Actress

Monday Muse

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
...Unknown