October 31, 2009

On Hallowe'en the thing you must do,
Is pretend that nothing can frighten you,
And if somethin' scares you and you want to run,
Just let on like it's Hallowe'en fun.

- Author Unknown

October 30, 2009

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

- Mason Cooley

October 29, 2009

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

- Thomas Troward

October 28, 2009

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

- Duane Michals

October 27, 2009

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

October 26, 2009

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

- Ernst Haas

October 25, 2009

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

October 24, 2009

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.

- Michael Strassfeld

October 23, 2009

If you must drink and drive, drink Pepsi.

- Seen on a Bumper Sticker

October 22, 2009

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

- Author Unknown

October 21, 2009

Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title.

- Scooby-Doo

October 20, 2009

It is no use to grumble and complain;
It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
Why, rain's my choice.

- James Whitcomb Riley

October 19, 2009

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.

- Carol Bishop Hipps

October 18, 2009

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves.

- Anna Garlin

October 17, 2009

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

- Author Unknown

October 16, 2009

The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

October 15, 2009

Please don't feed the dust bunnies.

- Author Unknown

October 14, 2009

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

- Fanny Brice

October 13, 2009

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

- Winston Churchill

October 12, 2009

You don't get tired of muffins,
but you don't find inspiration in them.

- George Bernard Shaw

October 11, 2009

I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

October 10, 2009

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

- Dr. Seuss

October 09, 2009

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.

- Martin H. Fischer

October 08, 2009

If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing...
... you have a college degree.

- Author Unknown

October 07, 2009

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
Watches beside me in this windy place.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay