I bring you good news of a
great joy.

-Luke 2:10




H2O: two parts heart and
one part obsession.

-print by Annie Sessler, East End Fish Prints



It is not down in any map;
true places never are.

-Herman Melville





God made the country,
and man made the town.

-William Cowper

katsushika hokusai 

Timid men prefer the calm of
despotism to the tempestous sea
of liberty.

-Thomas Jefferson

jago

I got nasty habits;
I take tea at three.

-Mick Jagger



The river was an awful solitude,
then.

-Mark Twain, Life On The Mississippi



Forgive me Lord please, those
years when I ignored you.

-George Harrison, Hear Me Lord




Lack of wonder, about what we already
have been given, is the reason for our lack
of faith in what we have been promised.

-Doug Wilson



He did not remember when he
had first started to talk aloud
when he was by himself.

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And The Sea



sienna kendall


Dear Lord, help me to be the
person my dog thinks i am.




Nobody ever lives their life all
the way up except bullfighters.

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises



In every parting there is an image
of death.

-George Eliot




He who knows best knows how
little he knows.

-Thomas Jefferson




The commands of the Lord
are radiant, giving light to
the eyes.

-Psalm 19:8




However things may seem, no
evil thing is success and no good
thing is failure.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.

-Poor Richard



There is something majestic in
the bad taste of Italy.

-E. M. Forster



I wish they would only take me
as I am.

-Vincent Van Gogh



Trouble springs from idleness.

-Benjamin Franklin



Please don't dominate the rap,
Jack.

-Grateful Dead



For true worship two main obstacles must
be removed: first, ungodliness to which we
are by nature strongly inclined, and then,
worldly lusts which try to overwhelm us.

-John Calvin




Laugh and the world
laughs with you, snore
and you sleep alone.

-Anthony Burgess



No matter how I try, I find my
way to the same old jam.

-Led Zeppelin



Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That’s where you’ll find me.

-E. Y. Harburg



A man growing old becomes a

child again.

-Sophocles



I miss being anonymous.

-Barack Obama



Failures are fingerposts on the
road to achievement.

-C. S. Lewis



O God, it is amazing that men can talk
so much about man's creaturely power
and goodness, when, if thou didst not
hold us back every moment, we should
be devils incarnate.  This, by bitter
experience, thou hast taught me
concerning myself.

-The Valley Of Vision



Dogs are my favorite people.

-Richard Dean Anderson



A good film is when the price of
the dinner, the theatre admission,
and the babysitter were worth it.

-Alfred Hitchcock



Tact is the ability to describe
others as they see themselves.

-Abraham Lincoln



All things are difficult before
they are easy.

-Thomas Fuller



The pay is good and I can walk
to work.

-John F. Kennedy



If you're really a mean person
you're going to come back as
a fly and eat poop.

-Kurt Cobain



Let your people rejoice
in your goodness!

-2 Chronicles 6:41



All societies are theocratic, and
the only thing that distinguishes
them is which God they serve.

-Doug Wilson





andy warhol

For me, sitting still is harder

than any work.

-Annie Oakley



andy warhol

Art is art.  Everything else
is everything else.

-Ad Reinhardt



I paint with shapes.

-Alexander Calder



robert lemar

Always go to the bathroom when you
have a chance.

-King George V



Bring in the bottled lightning,
a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

-Charles Dickens



Apart from me you can do
nothing.

-Jesus (John 15:5)



Please dash me off a letter.  Put in as many
jabs and jibes and sarcasms as you have in
stock.  Blow me a refreshing breeze.

-Mark Twain



Joy is a net of love by which you
can catch souls.

-Mother Teresa



Distracted from distraction
by distraction.

-T. S. Eliot



christopher marley

Man gave names to all the animals,
in the beginning.

-Bob Dylan



Apparently, we are both suffering
from a deplorable lack of curiosity.

-The Sound of Music



Failure is success if we learn from it.

-Malcolm Forbes



All flesh is like grass, and all
its glory like the flower of
the grass.

-1 Peter 1:24