daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Thursday, January 31, 2013

January 31, 2013




Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

January 30, 2013





In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.
- Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

January 29, 2013




There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.
- William Sharp

Monday, January 28, 2013

January 28, 2013




It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.
- Wallace Stevens

Sunday, January 27, 2013

January 27, 2013




Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- Buddha

Saturday, January 26, 2013

January 26, 2013

These are the buildings that give New England towns and villages a unique sense of place and define, in many minds, the New England character. Collectively, they are as important to the cultural and architectural history of these villages as are the great cathedrals to the cities of Europe. Regardless of one’s religious persuasion, one cannot help but be moved by their presence. They are a part of all of us.
- Steve Rosenthal, White on White: Churches of Rural New England

Friday, January 25, 2013

January 25, 2013





Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.
- Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

Thursday, January 24, 2013

January 24, 2013




You're only as good as your last haircut.
- Fran Lebowitz

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

January 23, 2013





Do one thing every day that scares you.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

January 22, 2013





The world of the teddy bear is an innocent one, a world that gives delight and hurts not, a world that appeals to all generations and all nationalities.
- Gyles Brandreth

Monday, January 21, 2013

January 21, 2013





I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.
- Steven Wright

Sunday, January 20, 2013

January 20, 2013





Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
- Al Capp

Saturday, January 19, 2013

January 19, 2013





A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
- Jerry Seinfeld

Friday, January 18, 2013

January 18, 2013





The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
- Erma Bombeck

Thursday, January 17, 2013

January 17, 2013





Of winter's lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer's secret
Deep down within its heart.
- Charles G. Stater

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

January 16, 2013





I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
- Andrew Wyeth

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

January 15, 2013





We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
- Robin Williams

Monday, January 14, 2013

January 14, 2013




Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

- Greg Egan

Sunday, January 13, 2013

January 13, 2013





Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.
- Barbara Dale

Saturday, January 12, 2013

January 12, 2013




The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friday, January 11, 2013

January 11, 2013






As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
- Thom Gunn

Thursday, January 10, 2013

January 10, 2013






The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

- Mark Twain

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

January 09, 2013





Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
- Trey Parker

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

January 08, 2013




Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
- Jim Ryan

Monday, January 7, 2013

January 07, 2013






No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Sunday, January 6, 2013

January 06, 2013






The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
- Dorothea Lange

Saturday, January 5, 2013

January 05, 2013




Grab your luggage and drain your bladders.
- Madagascar 3

Friday, January 4, 2013

January 04, 2013




Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today's world it has become a necessity.
- Author Unknown

Thursday, January 3, 2013

January 03, 2013




I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

- Drew Barrymore

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

January 02, 2013







We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

- Erma Bombeck

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

January 01, 2013






Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.
- William Shatner