Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. ~A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1977
The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ~Samuel Butler
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. ~Leo Buscaglia
Now all my teachers are dead except silence. ~W.S. Merwin
And what's a buterfly? At best,
You don't take a photograph, you make it. ~Ansel Adams
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. ~Samuel Johnson
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. ~Robert K. Merton, Social Theory, 1957
A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. ~Allan Beck
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale
Sisters share the scent and smells - the feel of a common childhood. ~Pam Brown
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you. ~W. Somerset Maugham
The living moment is everything. ~D.H. Lawrence
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. ~Jill Ruckelshaus
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. ~Boy George
An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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