daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Sunday, January 31, 2010

January 31, 2010







First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, and then you forget to pull your zipper down.

- Leo Rosenberg

Saturday, January 30, 2010

January 30, 2010




Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

- Joshua Homme

Friday, January 29, 2010

January 29, 2010





Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

- John Wanamaker

Thursday, January 28, 2010

January 28, 2010




It's a good atmosphere, but different. It's dark all the time, and there's snow all over the place.

- Riley Wallace

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

January 27, 2010





A portrait! What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound.

- Charles Baudelaire

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

January 26, 2010





Life is too unpredictable to live by a schedule.

- Anonymous

Monday, January 25, 2010

January 25, 2010




I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, "Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours." He said, "Yes, but not in a row.

- Stephen Wright

Sunday, January 24, 2010

January 24, 2010





Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

- Andy Rooney

Saturday, January 23, 2010

January 23, 2010





Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

- Sophia Loren

Friday, January 22, 2010

January 22, 2010




There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

- Angus Young

Thursday, January 21, 2010

January 21, 2010







Everyone is gifted -
but some people never open their package.

- Anonymous

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

January 20, 2010




If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

January 19, 2010





"I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off."
"You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them."
"Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."

- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Monday, January 18, 2010

January 18, 2010



Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's easy to forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back.

- Stephenie Geist

Sunday, January 17, 2010

January 17, 2010







Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

- Rita Mae Brown

Saturday, January 16, 2010

January 16, 2010


Clark: Hmm... Maybe we ought to just go up there and check...

Rusty: Oh, woo. Look at the time. I gotta get to bed. I still gotta brush my teeth, feed the hog, still got some homework to do, still got those bills to pay, wash the car...

- Christmas Vacation

Friday, January 15, 2010

January 15, 2010





We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

- Epicurus

Thursday, January 14, 2010

January 14, 2010




Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Berthold Auerbach

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

January 13, 2010




I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Thomas Jefferson

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

January 12, 2010






Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

- Dr. Seuss

Monday, January 11, 2010

January 11, 2010




Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.

- Nicole Hollander

Sunday, January 10, 2010

January 10, 2010




"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

- Groucho Marx


Paraprosdokian: figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

January 09, 2010









A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

- Paul Valéry

Friday, January 8, 2010

January 08, 2010



There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

- Ruth Stout

January 08, 2010





The eyes see only what the mind is
prepared to comprehend.

- Robertson Davies