photography quotes

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. ~Rupert Murdoch



If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head. ~Harry Vardon



We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. ~Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, 1871



When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment. ~Steven Halpern



A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors. ~Barry Fitzgerald, Going My Way



I love America. It's Americans I can't stand. ~Attributed to both Charles Shultz and Bill Maher



Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker



Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody



Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate



A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. ~Author Unknown



The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb



Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ~Tobias Smollett



This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. ~Samuel Johnson



Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. ~Johann von Goethe



If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose



Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. ~Margaret Willour



Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's blend. ~Author Unknown



Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries



Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894