quotes about photography

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ~David Ormsby Gore



First time I've picked weeds in almost a year. Definitely missed it. I love the smell of dirt and plant revealing their hidden nature. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



The only cure for writer's block is insomnia. ~Merit Antares



The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law



It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6



Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. ~Jean de la Fontaine



Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ~Ambrose Bierce



The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future. ~Franz Rosenthal, Gambling in Islam, 1975



A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. ~Edgar A. Shoaff



Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~Louis Dembitz Brandeis



Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me. ~Thomas Huxley



And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman. ~Woody Allen



Murphy was an optimist. ~O'Toole's Commentary



A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away with the centuries, although it serves as food for every speech. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Breastfeeding is a mother's gift to herself, her baby and the earth. ~Pamela K. Wiggins