daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Saturday, March 29, 2025

March 29, 2025

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

- Blaine Lee Pardoe

Friday, March 28, 2025

March 28, 2025

Some gifts are big. Others are small. But the ones that come from the heart are the best gifts of all.

- Tinku Razoria

Thursday, March 27, 2025

March 27, 2025

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

- Karl Lagerfeld

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

March 26, 2025

Weeds blend in; roses stand out.

- Matshona Dhliwayo

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

March 25, 2025

When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

Monday, March 24, 2025

March 24, 2025

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

- Stephen King

Sunday, March 23, 2025

March 23, 2025

The popularity of ducks — often described as the happiest animals in the barnyard — is increasing in many areas of the world.

- Dave Holderread

Saturday, March 22, 2025

March 22, 2025

I like my coffee like I like myself: strong, sweet, and too hot for you.

- Jac Vanek

Friday, March 21, 2025

March 21, 2025

Compared to the universe, we are like a drop of water in the ocean. We come and pass unnoticed; just like a chilly wind.

- Mwanandeke Kindembo

Thursday, March 20, 2025

March 20, 2025

I think bears and worms aren't very similar... until you think of gummy.

- Demetri Martin

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

March 19, 2025

This journey isn’t about getting something done “as quickly as possible.” It’s about process, not instant gratification.

- Michael L. Brown, The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

March 18, 2025

We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

- J. D. Vance

Monday, March 17, 2025

March 17, 2025

But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

- Shel Silverstein

Sunday, March 16, 2025

March 16, 2025

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

- Pam Brown

Saturday, March 15, 2025

March 15, 2025

Et tu, Brute?—Then fall, Caesar.

- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Friday, March 14, 2025

March 14, 2025

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

- Salvador Dalí

Thursday, March 13, 2025

March 13, 2025

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.

- Shannon L. Alder

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

March 12, 2025

Dobby is free.

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

March 11, 2025

To be interested in the changing seasons is... a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

- George Santayana, The Life of Reason

Monday, March 10, 2025

March 10, 2025

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

- Bill Watterson

Sunday, March 9, 2025

March 09, 2025

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

- Yogi Berra

Saturday, March 8, 2025

March 08, 2025

Don't get me wrong, I like to cuddle. But there is such a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so that they can't get away.

- Dave Attell

Friday, March 7, 2025

March 07, 2025

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

- Alex Shakar

Thursday, March 6, 2025

March 06, 2025

I’d heard that they were going to stop teaching cursive in schools, which was fine with me, because then all us old people would have a secret code.

- Craig Johnson, Next to Last Stand

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

March 05, 2025

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

- Dave Barry

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

March 04, 2025

Mardi Gras is a state of mind.

- Ed Muniz

Monday, March 3, 2025

March 03, 2025

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

- George Matthew Adams

Sunday, March 2, 2025

March 02, 2025

Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat.

- Erin Hunter, Into the Wild

Saturday, March 1, 2025

March 01, 2025

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

- Charles Horton Cooley

Friday, February 28, 2025

February 28, 2025

Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

- John Maeda

Thursday, February 27, 2025

February 27, 2025

I think it's becoming very acceptable for adults and teenagers to be playful lifelong. You know, it's very acceptable to be a video gamer and be 35 years old. It's acceptable to be a Lego adult fan and build amazing things, even though you're 40 or 25 years old.

- Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

February 26, 2025

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

- Michael Moore

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

February 25, 2025

They gave Pandora a box. Prometheus begged her not to open it. She opened it. Every evil to which human flesh is heir came out of it. The last thing to come out of the box was hope. It flew away.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

Monday, February 24, 2025

February 24, 2025

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Sunday, February 23, 2025

February 23, 2025

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

- Sylvia Plath

Saturday, February 22, 2025

February 22, 2025

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

- Doris Day

Friday, February 21, 2025

February 21, 2025

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

- Mother Teresa

Thursday, February 20, 2025

February 20, 2025

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: 
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. 
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

- Laurence Binyon

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

February 19, 2025

Snowflakes are pretty patterns etched in water’s dreams.

- Anthony T. Hincks

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

February 18, 2025

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

- Martin Buber

Monday, February 17, 2025

February 17, 2025

Look at the sunny side of everything.

- Christian D. Larson

Sunday, February 16, 2025

February 16, 2025

At the darkest time of year, Lord Yule laid down his beard of snow and cloak of frost and ice to illuminate the gloom.

- Stewart Stafford

Saturday, February 15, 2025

February 15, 2025

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

- Les Brown

Friday, February 14, 2025

February 14, 2025

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Thursday, February 13, 2025

February 13, 2025

If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.

- Phil Pastoret

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

February 12, 2025

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

- Giada De Laurentiis

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

February 11, 2025

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

- Lauren DeStefano

Monday, February 10, 2025

February 10, 2025

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

- Ronnie Barker

Sunday, February 9, 2025

February 09, 2025

I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.

- Gilbert Gottfried

Saturday, February 8, 2025

February 08, 2025

My favorite animal is steak.

- Fran Lebowitz