Quotations Weblog

I’ve found a strange little quotation blog that dates as far back as January 2000. It’s simple, with no explanation, additional commentary, advertisement or even decoration. Just a date and a quote or two. If the dates are to be believed, it goes back five years.

• quōt.org

Quōt.org has a distinctly different collection than ours with many that wouldn’t be allowed in our collection because they are too long or contain offensive language. It’s an interesting addition to the family of quotation websites available.

My sister emailed me a link. The subject line said, “Something Positive.” Even though it could have been spam or some evil virus, I clicked on it. It was a webcomic. Instead of reading the comic for the day, I started at the beginning. It took me about a month to read it from the beginning until the present day. I was hooked and I loved it.

I tried to get Mike to read it. “Yeah, I know about that guy. He dared his readers to pay him enough to quit his job and they did.” I hadn’t heard about that. I had read the entire collection of his comic without reading any of the author comments. I was too busy collecting great quotes from his work.

Now, I read his comic every day. I also keep abreast with the two side projects that he has: Midnight Macabre and New Gold Dreams. When I’m out of town, I check two things, my email and Something Positive. If he were able to do twenty comics a day, I would read them all. Enjoy my favorite quotations from his collection:

See all the quotations from Randy K. Milholland here:

Something Positive Quotations

David and Barbara Mikkelson have been running Snopes.com for years. Whenever I get an email from dear friends warning about the dangers of perfume sellers or a picture of George W. Bush holding a book upside down, I go straight to Snopes.com to find out the truth.

Not only have they been a helpful reference for the strange stories that we like to fax and email each other, they tend to write wonderfully. Here are some of the quotes that I have gleaned from them over the years.

If you would like to know about the most recent urban legends that fly across the Internet, you can check out their What’s New? page. It is updated regularly and has an XML RSS feed.

• Read all the quotes from Snopes.com

Hugh Elliott is one of those exceptional bloggers that hasn’t gotten a book deal yet and I can’t imagine why. I’ve read Standing Room Only from the beginning and I check every day for new tidbits.

My favorite entry that he has written is Eye For An Eye. That entry gave me very clear ideas on how to dress. It’s something that Seventeen Magazine and Cosmo failed me for years on end. I don’t need to know what’s cool today. I need to know how to dress. I’m still grateful to him for that entry to this day.

He has said a lot of cool things, too:

My Personal Favorite:

• Read all of Hugh Elliott’s Quotations

When I first started adding quotes of his to our collection, he found them and wrote this entry: EndQuote. A few days later, he sent us a polite email asking us to correct the spelling of his name. I guess I should have dropped him an email telling him that we were planning on quoting him.

Go ahead and read his great weblog. I’m sure you’ll find a ton of great quotes I missed and didn’t include in the collection.

The first weblog I ever read was Real Live Preacher. I found out about him from Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, who is the minister at my UU church. Before that, I had never even conceived of weblogs, even though Mike and I basically wrote a weekly weblog for this site back in 1997.

If I found Real Live Preacher by happenstance, I kept reading because he’s an incredible writer. I have regularly added tidbits of wisdom from his writings to our quotations collections. Here are some of my favorites:

• Read all of the quotations from Real Live Preacher

• Buy Real Live Preacher’s Book at Amazon.com: Real Live Preacher

You can’t really tell by looking at it, but he just re-vamped his entire weblog, porting all his archives over to new software, adding logins for comments and a chat room. The chat room is very active and the community that has grown around this weblog has a new forum to play with.