
Hopefully making a ruckus, one blog post at a time!
Be sure to check out my other blog,Joe’s Journey, for selected short stories and personal insights on life and its detours.

Hopefully making a ruckus, one blog post at a time!
Be sure to check out my other blog,Joe’s Journey, for selected short stories and personal insights on life and its detours.
Here we are again, searching through the online Quote Bag. Some of the gems I found are listed below.
Your respite into the world of famous and sometimes infamous quotes from a variety of personalities. Any one of these could prove motivation for that ad you’re working on, tweak your imagination, inspire you or just plain bring a smile to your face.

“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.” – Henry Ford
“My stories run up and bite me on the leg. I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite.” — Ray Bradbury, the author of Twilight Zone’s 100th episode!

From someone on Twitter:
It was the great Ray Bradbury, whom I interviewed as a young reporter and aspiring novelist going in five different directions at once and totally befuddled. His simple advice to me: “Write what you love to read.”


“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“There have been three writers that most suit me: Rod Serling, Clifford Odets and Neil Simon. With Neil it was the humor and the rhythms. Odets, the staccato. But with Rod Serling, it was the anger, the defiance and fire. He brought such fire to everything he wrote.” — Jack Klugman
“No knowledge of what went before. No understanding of what is now. No knowledge of what will be.“ #ZoneQuotes #S3E14 “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” by Rod Serling
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm
Which ones ring true for you? Inspire you? Make you want to scratch your head and say “Huh?” Let me know in the comments.
Every once in a while I see some sort of art exhibit that I just go “What the . . .?!”
I experienced this again recently and thought I’d share with you. As you’ll see, the exhibit, featuring actual live human beings, is both surreal and a bit unreal. Except that it is, uh, real, that is.
Evidently, this takes place each year in Belgium. It’s called the Statues en Marche festival in Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium. Various real live actors portray different characters. Some are famous as in DaVinci and Einstein, while others are less so, as in the Couple en Chocolat.

An artist impersonating Leonard De Vinci takes part in the Statues en Marche celebration. REUTERS/Yves Herman
I’d love to know the backstory with some of these actors, given the amount of time some of them have to remain quite still. Regardless and from a journalist’s perspective, when was the last time you sat down and interviewed a couple of chocolate? This festival didn’t indicate what names, if any, some of the actors were portraying. Mr. & Mrs. Snickers?

Artists who call themselves “Le couple en chocolat” take part in the Statues en Marche festival in Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium. REUTERS/Yves Herman

An artist impersonating Albert Einstein in Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Check out the Statues en Marche festival and more.
Creativity takes many forms in many different places. Intriguing!