Thursday's Useless Trivia and Facts ~ January 20, 2011

It is time again for me to fill your brain with useless facts and trivia:

MODERN WISDOM

• "No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously." - Dave Barry
• "What we swell on is who we become" - Oprah Winfrey
• "As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't" - Carrie Fisher
• "If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now." - Marie Osmond
• "Oppressed groups are not, generally speaking, people who stand firmly together. No, sadly, they subdivide among themselves and fight like hell." - J.K. Rowling
• "Most things I worry about never happen anyway." - Tom Petty
• "Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said." - Mel Brooks
• "The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." - Ann Landers
• "The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudices." - Clint Eastwood
• "It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can get yourself back." - Mick Jagger
• "The most important things happen when you stop looking for them." - Phil Donahue
• "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
• "If everything is under control, you are going too slow." - Mario Andretti
• "The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy