March 07, 2010

It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

- Bernand De Voto, Fortune, June 1947

March 06, 2010

The quickest way to make money at photography is to sell your camera.

- Anonymous

March 05, 2010

Marlin: What are you doing? Are you sure you speak whale?
Dory: Caaaan yoooou giive uuuus direeeeectioooons?
Marlin: Dory! Heaven knows what you're saying! See, he's swimming away.
Dory: Cooome baaaaack.
Marlin: He's not coming back. You offended him.
Dory: Maybe a different dialect. Mmmmoooooowaaaaah...
Marlin: Dory! This is not whale. You're speaking like, upset stomach.

- Finding Nemo

March 04, 2010

Follow the rule of holes;
if you are in one, stop digging.

- Dennis Healy

March 03, 2010

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"

March 02, 2010

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

March 01, 2010

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

- Robert Louis Stevenson