quotes and photography

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... ~Susan Polis Shutz



Presence is more than just being there. ~Malcolm S. Forbes, The Further Sayings of Chairman Malcolm



And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor



Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles



Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ~Gore Vidal



Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay



If the sole reason why you must not kill your neighbour is because God has forbidden it and will severely punish you for it in this or the next life - then, when you learn that there is no God and that you need not fear His punishment, you will certainly kill your neighbour without hesitation, and you can only be prevented from doing so by mundane force. Thus either these dangerous masses must be held down most severely and kept most carefully away from any chance of intellectual awakening, or else the relationship between civilization and religion must undergo a fundamental revision. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ~Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted, 14 August 1966



Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes. ~Anita Loos



I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. ~Indira Gandhi



It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. ~E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest



Cold beer and pizza are spiritual. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ~Edgar W. Howe



The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation. ~Louis Fabian Bachrach



Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine. ~Polish Proverb



Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. ~Henry David Thoreau



In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ~Robert Green Ingersoll



All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19



But that won't give me a free hand to hold the beer. ~Billy Carter, while being taught a two-handed backhand shot