one cheer

In Hello, I Must Be Going, author Charlotte Chandler writes about being on the red carpet with an elderly Groucho Marx the day he was to receive a special Oscar. The crowd went crazy when they saw him; for her, silence. Then one person cheered. After that, Groucho called her "One Cheer." Recently, a review I wrote on itunes got a "yes" vote, and I thought, "Hey! I have one cheer!" Intoxicated with my new found fame, I started a blog.

"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain." -- Leo Durocher (July 27, 1905 – October 7, 1991), in The New York Times, 16 May 1965

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.” -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

"For our last number I'd like to ask your help: Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery ..." -- John Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), at the Royal Command Performance, November 4, 1963

"The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle." -- Pres. Ronald Reagan's inaugural address, 1981

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have." -- E. W. Howe (May 3, 1853 - October 3, 1937)

"New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian." -- Russell Baker

"A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'" -- Douglas Adams (March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001)

"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels." – Patti Smith

"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America." — Molly Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007)

"You don't have to be religious to believe in God, just observant." — Gypsy Rose Lee (January 8, 1911 – April 26, 1970)

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal." -- John Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980)

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." -- H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

"Truth is what you get other people to believe." --Tommy Smothers, Emmys 2008

"The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it." -- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, from Northern Exposure, "Cicely," 1992

"They say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist." -- George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008)