Friday, April 15, 2011

xanga quotes and photography

xanga quotes and photography





xanga quotes and photography xanga quotes and photography xanga quotes and photography



xanga quotes and photography xanga quotes and photography xanga quotes and photography







God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. ~Paul Valery, Mauvaises pensees et autres, 1942



The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ~Maureen Murphy



Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. ~H.E. Bates, A Love of Flowers



A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo



Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ~Lily Tomlin



I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams



Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. ~J. Paul Getty



There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass. ~Dan Devine, former Notre Dame football coach



Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein



The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ~Karl Marx



Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was. ~Julian Green, Diary, 28 December 1958



The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932



Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. ~John Steinbeck



The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. ~William J. Clinton, 1997



What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. ~Andre Gide



I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~Louis Agassiz



Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. ~Thomas Wolfe

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