Little Thinkers Quotes: Andy Warhol (5 of 16)

Greetings to our blog-readers in Israel, Ethiopia (?!, well perhaps) and Kazakhstan.

Today, we continue our Little Thinkers series with a quote from the great American pop artist Andy Warhol, who was famous for painting soup cans as well as avant garde portraits of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Mao Tse-Tung, among others.

In art, the Baltimore Museum of Art recently recovered a Renoir that was stolen form the museum in the 1960s, the person who had the painting claimed that it was purchased for seven dollars at the Harpers Ferry Flea Market in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

There is an Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Here is his quote:

"Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets."


http://www.warhol.org

http://www.artbma.org

This and That- Nerdy Pick-up Lines

First of all, my apolgies in advance to the late Fred Rogers, whom us Gen-Xers remember as Mr.Rogers while watching his children's show on PBS in the 1970s, but when it came to an image of a dorky guy I simply couldn't think of anyone else.

As I was reading the June 2011 issue of "Wired" in a public library today, I came across three things that got my immediate attention. I made a note of them, and after some mental deliberation, I decided to shared them with the 13 people who read this blog.

For starters, apparently this is an actual pickup line that an Internet nerd used for a hot girl (who perhaps could have been Hulk Hogan) on Twitter: "Is your name Google? 'Cause you have everything I'm searchign for." Wow! Pretty forward.

Also, according to "Wired," there is apparently a book floating around called "The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed." The kicker is that the author is anynomous. Hmmm.....

Lastly, the parents of Luhe Vilagomez, 17, were probably not to happy with the young lad. In the same issue of "Wired," we read that he made the notorious 220-foot jump from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco 'just for kicks' (apparently, the boy has denied he was attempting suicide as most folks who jump from the bridge are trying to do), and he was in the two percent who survived!

Quote of the Day- Catherine Deneuve

Here is our Quote of the Day from beloved French actress Catherine Deneuve:

"All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers."

Denevue, who starred in films like "The Last Metro" also co-starred with Yves Montand (the subject of our sister entry on our other blog) in the 1975 French film "The Savage."

SIDEBAR- The Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York is screening "Airplane!" on Aug. 9 with the film's three co-directors in attendance. The film which is celebrating its 30th anniversary reminds us of the line: "We need someone with flying experience who did not have fish for dinner."

SIDEBAR TWO: Believe or not, it took three tries to get this entry up!

Quote of the Week-Hugh Hefner

Today's quote is from "Playboy" magazine's founder Hugh Hefner. To complement Heff, we have a quote from one of his arch rivals, feminist Gloria Steinem.

Here is today's quote from Heffner:

"The major civiling force in the world is not religion, it is sex."