daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Thursday, July 10, 2025

July 10, 2025

L.L.Bean boots are more than just footwear—they’re a legacy of adventure and durability.

- Outdoors Enthusiast

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

July 09, 2025

The movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

- Tim Burton

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

July 08, 2025

Samantha: Thor, how do we even break the curse? Thor: There is one way. But it involve boiling ingredients in cauldron, and ingredients impossible to come by, requires sailing to distant lands to procure... one pound... sugar. Samantha: Oh, oh, sugar like regular sugar? Thor: Entire pound, did you not hear? And that's not all. Also need rare spice from far away land. One pinch worth more than 30 horses, goes by name of cinnamon.

- Ghosts

Monday, July 7, 2025

July 07, 2025

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

- Elizabeth Bishop

Sunday, July 6, 2025

July 06, 2025

Shopping malls across the county are dying fast, and my images of them are very nostalgic for most people that grew up attending these malls. These malls were communal spaces. These were gigantic chat rooms before the Internet existed. You went to the mall to meet and communicate with others, not just to shop.

- Seph Lawless

Saturday, July 5, 2025

July 05, 2025

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty and freedom… and is marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

- John Thune

Friday, July 4, 2025

July 04, 2025

Mayor Vaughn: [to reporter] I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a wonderful time. Amity, as you know, means "friendship".

- Jaws

Thursday, July 3, 2025

July 03, 2025

The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.

- Prasad Mahes

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

July 02, 2025

We shall go wild with fireworks… and they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness.

- Natsuki Takaya

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

July 01, 2025

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience. I know all of the driving skills that are necessary for one to be successful in the rain. But racing in the rain is also about the mind!

- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Monday, June 30, 2025

June 30, 2025

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

- Katharine Hepburn

Sunday, June 29, 2025

June 29, 2025

Kodak sells film, but they don’t advertise film; they advertise memories.

- Theodore Levitt

Saturday, June 28, 2025

June 28, 2025

She's the kind of magic that you marry.

- Adrian Michael

Friday, June 27, 2025

June 27, 2025

You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing?

- Billie Joe Armstrong

Thursday, June 26, 2025

June 26, 2025

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

- Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

June 25, 2025

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

- Anita Roddick

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

June 24, 2025

If I don't make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!

- April Mae Monterrosa

Monday, June 23, 2025

June 23, 2025

The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.

- Walter Raleigh

Sunday, June 22, 2025

June 22, 2025

Benny Rodriguez: Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. I mean, if you were having fun you would've caught that ball. You ever have a paper route? Smalls: I helped a guy once. Benny Rodriguez: Okay, well chuck it like you throw paper. When your arm gets here, just let go. Just let go, it's that easy.

- The Sandlot

Saturday, June 21, 2025

June 21, 2025

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

- Lucille Ball

Friday, June 20, 2025

June 20, 2025

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

Thursday, June 19, 2025

June 19, 2025

Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game.

- Gay Brewer

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

June 18, 2025

The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.

- Walt Disney

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

June 17, 2025

A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.

- Leonardo DiCaprio

Monday, June 16, 2025

June 16, 2025

I hate going to the dentist, but I love the way my teeth feel afterward.

- Randy Fenoli

Sunday, June 15, 2025

June 15, 2025

Father’s Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it’s the one day of the year that Brookstone does any business.

- Jimmy Fallon

Saturday, June 14, 2025

June 14, 2025

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being, and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

- Vidal Sassoon

Friday, June 13, 2025

June 13, 2025

The cartographer’s dilemma is to preserve truth while creating illusion.

- Mark Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps

Thursday, June 12, 2025

June 12, 2025

When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics.

- Frank Ocean

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

June 11, 2025

The desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

- John le Carré

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

June 10, 2025

The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies… Yet at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.

- Paulo Coelho

Monday, June 9, 2025

June 09, 2025

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.

- Ayah Bdeir

Sunday, June 8, 2025

June 08, 2025

“Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!”

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Saturday, June 7, 2025

June 07, 2025

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

- Jonathan Safran Foer

Friday, June 6, 2025

June 06, 2025

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

- Robert Breault

Thursday, June 5, 2025

June 05, 2025

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

- Pericles

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

June 04, 2025

The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.

- Tim Cook

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

June 03, 2025

Happiness is the warm, gooey center of a cinnamon bun.

- Charles M. Schulz

Monday, June 2, 2025

June 02, 2025

Sh...ark! There's a shark in the pond!

- Jaws

Sunday, June 1, 2025

June 01, 2025

This Medal of Honor does not belong to me. This medal belongs to every man and woman who has ever served their country.

- Michael E. Thornton

Saturday, May 31, 2025

May 31, 2025

Play is the work of the child.

- Maria Montessori

Friday, May 30, 2025

May 30, 2025

It’s-a‑me, Mario!

- Super Mario 64

Thursday, May 29, 2025

May 29, 2025

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

- Karl Lagerfeld

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

May 28, 2025

You can ask the flowers, I sit for hours Tellin' all the bluebirds, the bill and coo birds Pretty little baby, I'm so in love with you

- Connie Francis, "Pretty Little Baby"

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

May 27, 2025

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

- Carl Sandburg

Monday, May 26, 2025

May 26, 2025

Their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.

- Daniel Webster

Sunday, May 25, 2025

May 25, 2025

Skill in crafting comes from practice, not from dreaming. It’s persistence that refines your art.

- Richard Sennett

Saturday, May 24, 2025

May 24, 2025

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.

- Marie Kondo

Friday, May 23, 2025

May 23, 2025

No rain, no flowers.

- Vi Keeland

Thursday, May 22, 2025

May 22, 2025

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

- J. K. Rowling