"They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
I get SHIVERS reading that. I can read it over and over and over and over..... *heart*
"..the camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart..." - John Steinbeck
I'll go with a photography quote for now (the one in my profile, even), but I love quotes...
At our best and most fortunate we make pi...ctures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than what we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect- a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.
-Robert Adams
Quotes... I can't remember any off the top of my head, but what immediately came to mind was "Winnie-the-Pooh". Have you ever read it as an adult? It is the most wonderful, soothing, peaceful thing one can ever read, imo. The language is magnificent.
Now you guys are stuck. I'm going to have to find my Winnie-the-Pooh book and give a quote each day. The first one isn't a quote from the book itself -- it's the dedication of the book from A.A. Milne to his wife:
Quotes... I can't remember any off the top of my head, but what immediately came to mind was "Winnie-the-Pooh". Have you ever read it as an adult? It is the most wonderful, soothing, peaceful thing one can ever read, imo. The language is magnificent.
I could spend a happy morning
seeing Roo.
I could spend a happy morning
being Pooh.
For it doesn't seem to matter,
if I don't get any fatter
(and I DON'T get any fatter)
what I do!
Above from memory... They used to call me "Pooh" :-)
Quotes... I can't remember any off the top of my head, but what immediately came to mind was "Winnie-the-Pooh". Have you ever read it as an adult? It is the most wonderful, soothing, peaceful thing one can ever read, imo. The language is magnificent.
I could spend a happy morning
seeing Roo.
I could spend a happy morning
being Pooh.
For it doesn't seem to matter,
if I don't get any fatter
(and I DON'T get any fatter)
what I do!
Above from memory... They used to call me "Pooh" :-)
R.
Robert -- I just knew that if anyone appreciated Winnie-the-Pooh, it would be you!! I do have a lot of the poems/songs in memory, but I don't trust that they're completely right, so I'm going back to the original. It's been a couple of years, so it's time. What's so incredible about AA Milne, is that his language is so grammatically incorrect, yet so incredibly perfect.
This one makes me appreciate what's in front of me at the moment...
“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.” ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
A couple of my favourite quotes. Not photographt related though.
"You never get a second chance to make a good first impression"
"There are things we will never see unless we walk to them." - Thomas A. Clark"
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight; Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight" - from the song Lovers in a Dangerous Time by Bruce Cockburn
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" Oscar Wilde
Practically anything he wrote could go here ... ;-)
"Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world."
-Oscar Wilde
I recently got the opportunity to see Hal Holbrook do his one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight" live; I first saw it TV as a kid. One of my favorites from that one ...
"When I was fourteen my father was so stupid I could barely stand to have the old man around. But by the time I was twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in the last seven years."
-Mark Twain
Quotes... I can't remember any off the top of my head, but what immediately came to mind was "Winnie-the-Pooh". Have you ever read it as an adult? It is the most wonderful, soothing, peaceful thing one can ever read, imo. The language is magnificent....
Quotes... I can't remember any off the top of my head, but what immediately came to mind was "Winnie-the-Pooh". Have you ever read it as an adult? It is the most wonderful, soothing, peaceful thing one can ever read, imo. The language is magnificent....
I haven't, but I'm going to! I love it! :)
You will enjoy it so much!! When you read it, you have this incredible sense of tranquility and rightness wash over you. :)
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" Oscar Wilde
Practically anything he wrote could go here ... ;-)
"Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world."
-Oscar Wilde
I recently got the opportunity to see Hal Holbrook do his one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight" live; I first saw it TV as a kid. One of my favorites from that one ...
"When I was fourteen my father was so stupid I could barely stand to have the old man around. But by the time I was twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in the last seven years."
-Mark Twain
