"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
Perdonatemi, ma -come si sa- la carne è debole e l'ego, qualche volta- prende il sopravvento!
[Foto di Paolo Mezzetti]
Forgive me ... but the flesh is weak and the ego -sometimes- takes over!
You come across an old typewriter, perhaps in a junk shop. No-one else is around. You have an opportunity to type a few words on the paper, anonymously. What will you write?
"..because nothing makes me happier
and nothing makes me sadder than you.."
Quotation from The History Of Love by Nicole Krauss
Texture from Kerstin Frank. Thank you.
Quotation by Terri Guillemets.
Paris - LACPIXEL - 2021
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Spring leaves and wildflowers were popping out everywhere we hiked.
a quotation:
"This is the most beautiful place on earth.
There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even,
for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio, or Rome
--there's no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment."
Edward Abbey
"Desert Solitaire"
"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."
Quotation by Stanley Baldwin, 3 times British Prime Minister, speaking in 1932, although he was not PM at the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bomber_will_always_get_through
«I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me».
~ Antonius Block, The Seventh Seal
Quotation by John Steinbeck in "East of Eden". Lone flower by Nature. Frame by Perfect Photo Suite 9.
Quotation from, 'On seeing the graves of the forty-seven rônin at Sengakuji Temple' Anon.
Better viewed large
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).
Thanks to Midnight Digital for this quotation:
"When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth."
A rather nice statue in Vienna. Been looking back through these as I failed to get anything from my recent trip to Spain at all!!!
Simon Kennedy is an Architectural Photographer based in London
My instagram account with new images is here: www.instagram.com/_simonkennedy/
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
"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We're Here! : Quotes and Quotations
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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
I LOVE QUOTATIONS!
I LOVE the way other people reinforce my thoughts about life.
I LOVE when my photos connect with these thoughts.
Here is a smorgasbord of fun thoughts on DIRECTION ~
“I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.” ~ Anna Louise Strong ~
BUT . . .
“You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time.” ~ anon ~
HOWEVER, Goethe says:
“I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
SO REMEMBER TO:
“Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you'll never have to worry about your feet.”
with all of this being said, I still love the philosophical thoughts of Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Petite Prince) ~
“A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
"Camouflage is a game we all like to play,
but our secrets are as surely revealed
by what we want to seem to be
as by what we want to conceal."
~ Russell Lynes ~
Interesting, I had no idea who was famous for this quotation until
I looked up Russell Lynes in Wikipedia and discovered
he was "an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine."
You learn something new every day!
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.
One more for the Poetography group: This week our topic is "age". I thought the quote went well with this image, since this is one of the things we are doing now that life has slowed down a bit :)
"Nothing is more enjoyable than a leisured old age." ~ Cicero
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 (:
If You Remember the ’60s, You Really Weren’t There
Robin Williams? Charlie Fleischer? Paul Krassner? Paul Kantner? Grace Slick?
Dear Quotation Investigator: I lived through the 1960s, but the only thing I remember about it is the following quotation:
If you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there.
Does anyone recall who said this?
Quote Investigator: Yes, many people think they remember who said this. The problem is they disagree: Paul Kantner, Robin Williams, Paul Krassner, Pete Townshend, Grace Slick, Timothy Leary, and many others have been credited with the saying. Of course, no one who was there really remembers.
The earliest citation currently known by QI for this expression was found by the outstanding researcher Stephen Goranson.
The cite is a two-line article in the Comedy column of the Los Angeles Times in 1982:
EXIT LINE: Comedian Charlie Fleischer observes: “If you remember the ’60s, you really weren’t there.”
Apparently it took all of the 1970s to recover from the 1960s and create the quip. Until further citations are located, Charles Fleischer gets the credit.
Mother Nature has the US in her grasp. I hope you are all warm and safe as this continues to pass through our lives.
Also known as Cranesbill because of it's beak like seed capsule.
Notice the oak tree catkins on the leaves. I have never seen so many of these before. They are everywhere!
"A single oak tree produces both male and female flowers. The male flowers are tiny yellow structures that grow along a slender stalk. The stalked structure is called a catkin. The stalk with its flowers looks a bit like a yellow worm dangling from the tips of the oak branches. The female flowers are small pink to red structures that are also located near the twig tip. The male flowers produce pollen which is carried by wind to female flowers, often on a different tree. The amount of pollen produced by a large oak tree is enormous and the flowers continue producing pollen for several weeks. Unlike flowers that are pollinated by bees or other animals, the pollen of oaks floats freely in the air and is inhaled by people. Many people are allergic to oak pollen and the large amounts and long duration of oak pollen production can make oaks one of the more serious spring allergens."
~ University Of Mount Union
Unfortunately, I am one of those with an allergy to oak pollen.