"Quotation Mark" Abuse
View allAll Photos Tagged quotations
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
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
Please don't use this image without my explicit permission.
© All rights reserved
"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.
“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.
- AP - Copyright © remains with and is the intellectual property of the author
Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission
My artwork is a compilation of 4 of my photographs.
Quotation by John Steinbeck in "East of Eden". Lone flower by Nature. Frame by Perfect Photo Suite 9.
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).
Smile on Saturday - Quote
Words - Our Daily Challenge
This quotation comes from the book New Orleans: Life in an Epic City, edited by Mary Fitzpatrick
All rights reserved. Please do not use or reproduce this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my permission.
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.
Thoreau: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
307/365 pictures in 2019
Thoreau quotation - Our Daily Challenge
Let it glow - Smile on Saturday
All rights reserved. Please do not use or reproduce this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
“There’s a saying that goes, ‘People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.' OK. How about, ‘Nobody should throw stones’? That’s crappy behaviour. My policy is, ‘No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.’”
—Demetri Martin
OK, obviously this isn’t a house. It’s an igloo lounge where you can sit and rest if you want to get out of the cold. Anyway, I found the quotation above, and I thought it fit. :)
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!!!
“What an astonishing thing it is to find something. Children, who excel at it—chiefly because the world is still so new to them that they can’t help but notice it—understand this, and automatically delight in it… Finding is usually rewarding and sometimes exhilarating: a reunion with something old or an encounter with something new, a happy meeting between ourselves and some previously missing or mysterious bit of the cosmos.”
—Kathryn Schulz
The above quotation basically sums up how I feel about photography. We find things that are treasures to us, and we photograph and share them. Like Show and Tell. Remember that from elementary school? ;) A whole year (and longer) slipped away since I took this photo, but I’m finally sharing this found thing with you.
Thank you to everyone for your recent, generous faves and supportive comments. It encourages me, and it’s appreciated more than you know. My apologies for not being able to follow everyone that follows me. With Flickr’s settings, it makes it challenging to follow too many people without being overwhelmed. As a general rule, for everyone that visits my photostream, I make an effort to reciprocate by visiting theirs.
I wish you all the best now and always. Keep looking, finding and sharing. x
(Thank you, but comments have been disabled for this image.)
Work by the street artist Kraser
In particular follow this link:
open quotation from the sculpture "Le tre Grazie" by Antonio Canova (1812 e il 1817)
**********************************************************************
.........I'm thinking that it should be wonderful to live in a city, town, village so full of colors... I think that each grey wall could be transformed into an awesome work of art...
This is Vallà di Riese (Veneto Region, Italy) experience....
woooooow.... I love this... the project is supported by Region Administrators ....
It is Vallà participatory urban regeneration project, born from an idea of the BocaVerta Collective to put art and beauty back at the center of our urban landscapes. The name combines the English word wall and the country where the initiative takes place in a play on words.
****************************************
COS’È THE WALLÀ. È il progetto di rigenerazione urbana partecipata di Vallà, nato da un’idea del Collettivo BocaVerta per rimettere al centro dei nostri paesaggi urbani l’arte e la bellezza. Il nome unisce in un gioco di parole il termine inglese wall (muro) e il paese in cui ha luogo l’iniziativa.
In concreto, The Wallà si propone di trasformare i muri di edifici pubblici e privati in “tele” per un museo permanente a cielo aperto, composto da opere di street art che rappresenteranno un potente mezzo per sensibilizzare, raccontare, accogliere, riqualificare. A oggi sono più di 10 gli edifici individuati per gli interventi artistici, ma l’iniziativa è in continua espansione.
“Questo progetto”, spiega il Collettivo BocaVerta, “nasce dalla percezione condivisa di degrado lungo l’arteria che attraversa da nord a sud il nostro paese, quella Strada provinciale 667 che è croce e delizia del paese stesso, veicolo di sviluppo, ma anche di traffico e inquinamento. Ripartire dalla bellezza, per noi, significa riprendere possesso dei luoghi che ci sono familiari e coinvolgere attivamente i cittadini nella ricerca di un vivere comune che sia rispettoso di sé e degli altri”.
www.trevisotoday.it/.../riese-walla-street-art...
**********************************************************************
“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…
they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
**********************************************************************
Please don't use any of my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission.
© All rights reserved
Quotation from, 'On seeing the graves of the forty-seven rônin at Sengakuji Temple' Anon.
Better viewed large
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
"I don't want to imagine the time
when I have to stop playing."
~ Fernando Torres ~
I loved this quotation, not realizing it was referring to
Fernando Torres, a former Spanish professional football player,
now retired! So I wonder what he's imagining now!
"If there ever comes a day
Where we can't be together,
Keep me in your heart.
I'll stay there forever." -- Winnie the Pooh
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
Yesterday I had the rare pleasure of speaking with my sister in Greece for well over an hour. We closed in hysterics about how people hang their garden hoses and how we both seem to have more of a difficult time getting these tube-things to fall neatly into place. We wondered if it were just a "guy" thing! Deb was hopeful her neighbors wouldn't mind that although she dutifully watered their plants while they were away, the hoses stayed in figure eights layin' in the sun! This is dedicated to you, sweet sister . . . I miss you and love you so! "You done good" as Grandper used to say!
“All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' In The Sun,
Talkin' 'Bout The Things
They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...
But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All Ran Away And Hid
From One Little Did.”
~ Shel Silverstein ~
The following quotation was inspired by deeper moments of sisterly conversation:
“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August SUN. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you posses. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.”
~ Kent Nerburn ~
note: and, oh, by the way, if anyone has any suggestions as to how to easily rehang a hose, we'd be most appreciative!
Getting so old, so weak, barely peek
Yet beautiful still, until, the next fill
For a generation, a whole celebration,
"In quotation"
[] HaMeD!caL []
This quotation of Amiels “Intimate Diary“ was spinning in my mind this morning.
Or in my words: “ The world in my Self and my Self in the world.“
Please: if anybody has an idea about the stripes in the neg, write it in the comments. Tanks.
Mamiya 7II 65mm
Foma without label, exposed as 200ASA
Sekonic L-758 D
Epson V-750
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.
Yes, we're CELEBRATING! Stay tuned! Within the quotations are references to some words which pertain to our book (and this image, in a way):
Old-Fashioned:
in that we're talking about a real book that one can hold between two hands!
Full Acceptance:
in that the characters in the book accept one another in an unusual, untraditional way!
Grandpa:
a "lost" character in the book.
Writing from the HEART:
every word was written from my heart.
"Will you love me in the good old-fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?”
~ James Walker ~
“Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.” ~ anon ~
“Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa? If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. . . . He is the life of every party . . .” ~ Hal Boyle ~
“The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.”
~ David Soul ~
“My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.”
~ Kim Elizabeth ~
I come across another funny Quotation on FaceBook and wanted to share this with you all. Have a fantastic day, everyone!
"Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth."
— George Orwell ("1984")
...posted, the morning after the presidential election, upon pondering the horrors to be inflicted upon the United States of America in the months to come.
***************
▶ Image via Sara Miller (on Threads).
▶ Uploaded by Yours For Good Fermentables.com.
▶ For a larger image, type 'L' (without the quotation marks).
— Follow on Facebook: YoursForGoodFermentables.
— Follow on Instagram: @tcizauskas.
▶ Commercial use requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons.
Over cooked but I liked it ! better bigger on black.
Please check out my profile, and catch some more shots over on my Blog updates :))
Fluidr | Blog | Flickriver
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
Hahahaha! Came across this quotation today and just couldn't resist.
"Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night." --Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Fun Fact Du Jour: So I've been told that I have really nice lips. Okay...won't complain about that compliment. ;) Typically, I'm not one to wear intense colors but we are coming upon the holiday season ya know. And I like shaking things up with red lips and red nails. Funny thing though...both end up transferring the red pigment in some manner. Well no mas!!! I have found the perfect "lipstick."
It's actually a lip stain of some sort that remains on throughout the entire day and will not rub off. You just need to touch up the clear gloss which is on par to wearing Chapstick. I'm not one to trust these claims too easily, but guess what?!? After a trial run today and some determined experimentation--not gonna kiss and tell--it would seem that this stuff does in fact stay on. Who would've thunk?!? FYI Flickr Divas, I'm wearing Cranberry LipSense® by SeneGence®. Tiaras Up! And now, nighty night, do enjoy this fave: ♫ blip.fm/~bx226
PPS...the asterisk was created using the Chiller typeface. Love typography.
'and i was speechless...'
my day consists of floral skirts and quotation marks.
outtakes in comments!
all sooc of course (: