Above all, it’s hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.
— Sam Abell
There has never been a pirate, or for that matter a human being, like this in any other movie.
— Roger Ebert, about Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.
— Abraham Lincoln
I don’t understand small things. Why can’t they just grow? I mean, I grew, and look at me!
— Dan McKeown
Knightley’s performance is so light and yet fierce that she makes the story almost realistic; this is not a well-mannered “Masterpiece Theatre” but a film where strong-willed young people enter life with their minds at war with their hearts.
— Roger Ebert, on Pride and Prejudice
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
— Stephen Hawking
We ought to do good to others as simply and naturally as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
— Marcus Aurelius
Experience is food for the brain.
— Bill Watterson
Also, if you can spend any time napping in a field on a summer day when you are younger — do so. That can be the place you visit in your mind when you’re standing on a crowded subway, stooped with back pain, sweating like your pores are water-piks, while a beggar in stained and drooping sweatpants yells in your ear.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
— Albert Einstein
The best way out is always through.
— Robert Frost
If you were given that cosmic rewind button, how far back would you go? Would you really be able to stop after yesterday, or last week? Or would you keep going until you didn’t have thumbs to push the button with?
How many stupid musings can one man fit in an away message?
— Sagert Sheets
… the secret of great photography is large amounts of bad photography.
— Daniel Rutter
I think some day it would be nice to have colleges have programs, very strong programs, in this sort of user interface but with a very humanist attitude point of view, and start playing around with new approaches. Some year, some decade, it might just come into the popular conscious to start making things more beautiful for people.
I’m like the old guy in the rocking chair telling all the kids in pampers, ‘Get off the chair! Do not break that! I thought you were suposed to be napping.’
— Kevin Garnett
If you’re writing with an erasable marker, bring a tiny sponge. This stuff doesn’t taste good.
— Chester E. Wilson
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
— Benjamin Franklin
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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