daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Friday, August 31, 2012

August 31, 2012





We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

- Mother Teresa

Thursday, August 30, 2012

August 30, 2012






I don't understand... they say you're not allowed to have pinatas that look like real people, but in Mexico, we do it all the time.

- Napoleon Dynamite

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

August 29, 2012






Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

- Anonymous

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

August 28, 2012






I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

- Kristen Bell

Monday, August 27, 2012

August 27, 2012







First thing on a list of what Americans hate: Work. Second, traffic. Third, missing socks. See what I'm saying?

- Stranger Than Fiction

Sunday, August 26, 2012

August 26, 2012





Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

- Charles Simic

Saturday, August 25, 2012

August 25, 2012







Tell your mom to marry us
A candle to carry us
With cans on our bicycle fenders
So sweet and hilarious
And we'll find us a home
Built of packaging foam
That will be there 'til after we die.
- The Decemberists, "Clementine"

Friday, August 24, 2012

August 24, 2012



A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

- President Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday, August 23, 2012

August 23, 2012





How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air;
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain,
Breaks the serene of heaven.

- Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

August 22, 2012






Vinny: What are you doing now?
Pauly: Waiting for you, let's get a pedicure.

- Jersey Shore

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

August 21, 2012





I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

- George Carlin

Monday, August 20, 2012

August 20, 2012






If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

- Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

Sunday, August 19, 2012

August 19, 2012





It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

- William Shakespeare

Saturday, August 18, 2012

August 18, 2012




The moment a child is born,
the mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.

- Rajneesh

Friday, August 17, 2012

August 17, 2012




Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim.

- Author Unknown

Thursday, August 16, 2012

August 16, 2012






Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

- Benjamin Franklin

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

August 15, 2012






How many men does it take to make popcorn?Four, one to hold the pot, and three to act macho and shake the stove.

- joke

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

August 14, 2012





All my friends are getting married and I'm just getting drunk.

- Anonymous

Monday, August 13, 2012

August 13, 2012





Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

- C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958

Sunday, August 12, 2012

August 12, 2012





The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil.
- Heywood Broun

Saturday, August 11, 2012

August 11, 2012






A bachelorette party is a bachelor party...gone wild!

- Author Unknown

Friday, August 10, 2012

August 10, 2012





Any looting we have come across is more foraging than looting, ... These people that are staying are trying to cobble an existence. People are trying to find stuff that they need day to day.

- John Murphy

Thursday, August 9, 2012

August 09, 2012




All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.

- John Berger

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

August 08, 2012




We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

- Buddha

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

August 07, 2012





Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

- Albert Einstein

Monday, August 6, 2012

August 06, 2012





Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

- Carl Sandberg

Sunday, August 5, 2012

August 05, 2012






In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.
- Kakuzō Okakura

Saturday, August 4, 2012

August 04, 2012




Every man is architect of his own fortune.
- Appius Claudius Caecus

Friday, August 3, 2012

August 03, 2012





The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
- Pablo Picasso

Thursday, August 2, 2012

August 02, 2012





Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
- Barbara Mikulski

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

August 01, 2012





Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! there is the sting of life.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan