Life must go on, I forget just why.

-Edna St. Vincent Millay



Light makes photography.  Embrace light. 
Admire it.  Love it.  Know it for all you are
worth, and you will know the key to
photography.

-George Eastman



Short cuts make for long delays.

-J. R. R. Tolkien



It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.

-Robert Murray M'Cheyne



I am hard-pressed to see an instance where
the intervention of the government led to
much beyond sorrow.

-David Mamet



Nothing can now be believed which is seen in
a newspaper.  Truth itself becomes suspicious
by being put into that polluted vehicle.

-Thomas Jefferson




When you look into an abyss,
the abyss also looks into you.

-Friedrich Nietzsche



Call 'em like you see 'em
and to hell with it.

-Ernest Hemingway




Democracy is the theory that the common
people know what they want, and deserve
to get it good and hard.

-H. L. Mencken



I don't like that man.  I must
get to know him better.

-Abraham Lincoln



This is the one to whom I
will look: he who is humble
and contrite in spirit and
trembles at my word.

-Isaiah 66:2



Now autumn's fire burns slowly
along the woods, and day by day
the dead leaves fall and melt.

-William Allingham



Solitude vivifies;
isolation kills.

-Joseph Roux



We build too many walls
and not enough bridges.

-Isaac Newton



In writing, you must
kill your darlings.

-William Faulkner



I began to question what I actually thought
and found that I do not think that people are
basically good at heart.  I think that people, in
circumstances of stress, can behave like swine,
and that this, indeed, is not only a fit subject,
but the only subject, of drama.

-David Mamet

the sartorialist

Immodest and attractive is easy. 
Modest and repulsive is easy too. 
But modest and attractive is an
art form.

-Doug Wilson



Morning by morning He
awakens; He awakens my
ear to hear as those who
are taught.

-Isaiah 50:4

jean-honore fragonard

Time you enjoy wasting,
was not wasted.

-John Lennon

sam brown

A man is what he thinks
about all day long.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson



Women will never be as successful
as men because they have no wives
to advise them.

-Dick Van Dyke







Burning hearts are not nourished

by empty heads.

-R. C. Sproul



Exuberance is beauty.

-William Blake



Monday Monday,
can't trust that day,
Monday Monday,
sometimes it just
turns out that way.

-John Phillips



How sweet to work for God all day,
then to lie down at night beneath
his smile.

-Robert Murray M'Cheyne

brae howard

God's gifts put man's best dreams
to shame.

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning 



Who does not know another language,
does not know his own.

-Goethe

garth williams

It's amazing what you can
accomplish if you don't care
who gets the credit.

-Harry S Truman



Somewhere, something incredible
is waiting to be known.

-Carl Sagan



You want a friend in Washington? 
Get a dog.

-Harry S Truman

charles harden

Here comes the sun,
and I say it's alright.

-George Harrison