"Quotation Mark" Abuse
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Tell me what you know :-)
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
water lily, sarah p duk gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth :-)
Robert Byrne, "Sources, References, and Notes," The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1984
HGGT! HBW!
zinnia, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Taken for Caturday theme quotations. The quote is: When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day. Lynda Resnick
"Give yourself a gift: the present moment."
Marcus Aurelius
While walking along the road, I noticed the smallest flowers bending in the breeze. The whole plant was no larger than my smallest finger. I was stunned to see the beauty of its form once it was at eye level.
The older I become, the more I appreciate not only the rich beauty of our natural world, but also the wise words of philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius. An appreciation of our time spent on this Earth is often overlooked in the search for more exciting moments. Thus I offer this tiny flower and some wise words to take you through the day.
"My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias."
William Allen White
Whenever I link a quotation to one of my images, I am compelled to learn about the author of said quote. If you are interested in such things, you might want to know this about the author...
"William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 29, 1944) was an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement. Between 1896 and his death, White became a spokesman for middle America.
At a 1937 banquet held in his honor by the Kansas Editorial Association, he was called "the most loved and most distinguished member" of the Kansas press."
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXlh-ezKeOw
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE – ELVIS PRESLEY
Sometimes in life we come full circle
I see a footprint of my beginning
and here I am back at the start
I see the people who tried to stop me winning
but I rise above them; and leave them far behind
I draw a line in shifting, whispering grains of sand
and something deep inside me drives me on
no looking back; I am complete; I understand
sometimes in life we cannot win them over
it's not our job; it's for a greater Hand
and He will guide me on my journey
bring me safely to the shore
where angels sing; rejoice and hold me
and I will not be frightened any more
He sees in us the pain; the human burden
He sees the weight that life and people bring
He knows how much; He knows and He is certain
He will not give us more than we can take
so that in our hearts and souls we'll always sing
and when at last our cup is brimming over
He lays his Hand upon our heads and soothes our brow
and we feel the greatest love that ever found us
and we are comforted and lighter; it is a miracle somehow
and once more we are peaceful
finding joy in simple things
as darkness; shadows and all our plights
are left behind and taken care of;
whisked away on angel's wings
and soon the lines of strain are smoothed; not furrowed
as clouds reveal the stars of wonder and ethereal light
and we begin to live at last the ever after; forget tomorrow
this moment we exist; and in this moment
I am complete; I am content right here, right now.
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Quotation by John Steinbeck in "East of Eden". Lone flower by Nature. Frame by Perfect Photo Suite 9.
“Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.
They flickered out saying:
"It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.”
― Carl Sandburg
The face of the Olympian Hermes. Just a tiny part of the whole statue. The other parts, represented by Fujifilm boxes, you have to visualise yourself or, since his image is scattered over the world-wide web, you can look it up. Here, I am offering just a visual quotation. It refers to something larger and, at the end of the day, to a long narrative which, in itself, is invisible.
Fujifilm X-Pro1 plus Helios 44M-7 (wide-open).
Quotation from, 'On seeing the graves of the forty-seven rônin at Sengakuji Temple' Anon.
Better viewed large
Happy Caturday 11.8.2018 "Quotations"
Neighbours Snoop dines like a real gentleman
"Dinner for one" is the most played skizze in german TV - no silvester without it:-)
It was listed in 1988 in the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's most frequently repeated television production".
"That swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man's mind had been born."
Vladimir Nabokov
There is something wonderful about finding the perfect quotation to accompany a favorite image.
When you're not being able to do much there's always technology to make you have a dialogue with your many florals, which I did yesterday. Many quotes spring to mind, but I chose this one.
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and harmonious tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs to him" ~ August Rodin
For Poetography group: Some topics speak to me more than others and this week is a good example. Our word is leaf, or leaves.
They started cutting down the forest behind our house yesterday to build homes. I hoped this wouldn't happen too soon even though we were told to anticipate it. It's still tough.
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Getting so old, so weak, barely peek
Yet beautiful still, until, the next fill
For a generation, a whole celebration,
"In quotation"
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Love grows when we work at it.
Love overlooks a multitudes of faults.
Love will bring us together.
Love finds away to get together.
Love will keep us together.
A tabletop creation.
Go bananas! 90/116
Many thanks to Louise Soe for the Groucho Marx quotation!
For six word story.
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"I remember a hundred lovely lakes,
and recall the fragrant breath of pine
and fir and cedar and poplar trees.
The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk,
opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets."
~ Hamlin Garland ~
Which came first? The fiber arts tassel or the verse?
Serendipitously the short, poetic composition popped up and brought even more meaning, surprise and delight as it accented the opalescent and saffron beads which had been strung on silken threads upon the dangle, attached to a charm of golden pine cones!
Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday everyone!
I come across another funny Quotation on FaceBook and wanted to share this with you all. Have a fantastic day, everyone!
'and i was speechless...'
my day consists of floral skirts and quotation marks.
outtakes in comments!
all sooc of course (:
The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.
- Baha'u'llah
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine". Alan Turing
Movie: The Imitation Game
(I used a photo of a calculator keypad, taken today, to produce all the numbers shown. This was processed with one of my own textures from a photo of the sea as I wanted a dreamy effect.)
ODC "movie quote"
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2nd day of midterms
not bad
danny made lunch for me and nicole :3
i really like this photo
especially without the text
but the text is true and appropriate so i left it
Mother Nature has the US in her grasp. I hope you are all warm and safe as this continues to pass through our lives.
trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth :-)
Robert Byrne
rose, 'Love and Peace', little theater rose garden, Raleigh, north carolina
I read several Twain novels when I was a teen, but I became a fan when I read his social commentary in college.
So many quotations are attributed to Twain that are things he never said nor wrote. I made sure mine were all genuine Twainisms. They can be found with many others, researched by Twain Scholar Barbara Schmidt at: www.twainquotes.com/quotesatoz.html
One of my favorite quotes, not in the image above:
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
Created for Mixmaster 13 in the Artistic Manipulation Group following Chef Beth's recipe:
➤ Your image must be a pure, non-representational abstract.
➤ It may NOT contain any recognizable objects or beings. Note: it may be digital art from a blank canvas and/or a photo manipulation, as long as the subject of the photo is not recognizable in the final result.
➤ Your image must convey/embody an emotion.
➤ The title of your image must be a quotation that includes the name of whatever emotion you have chosen.
➤ Your image must use three distinct colors/hues (besides black and white which are optional). Note: light, medium and dark blue are NOT distinct hues; blue, green and purple are.
This abstract was created by collating and blending several of my own abstracts and textures in Photoshop Elements 13.